Does making an offer restart the algo? Observations and open question

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:bullseye: Quick question for the seller community:

I’ve noticed something several times lately, and I wanted to know if I’m the only one…

When I make an offer to a buyer (a recent favorite, for example), I feel like it unlocks visibility:
:collision: One or more new favorites on the item shortly after,
:speech_balloon: sometimes unexpected interactions.

So I’m wondering:
:chart_increasing: Does the mere act of making an offer, even without a response, temporarily boost the item in the algorithm?
Or is it just a coincidence of timing?

I’m interested in your feedback, especially if you’ve observed similar things!

Thanks everyone :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hello
I’ve noticed this for my sales. Just the fact that someone makes me an offer boosts my item. And I often sell it shortly after to someone else who buys it at or close to the asking price.

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Thank you for your feedback. And have you experienced the same thing when you are the one who takes the initiative to make an offer?

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When I make an offer, I either buy quickly or move on, so I don’t know what happens to the items, but it’s necessarily the same. I know that by making an offer (or a favorite, a view) I boost that item.

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I wanted to say when you make an offer to a buyer who has favorited your item

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I must say that I do not see anything like that. I regularly receive overly aggressive offers, at -40%, which I refuse, and I have never observed that this caused a third party to buy the item. On the other hand, I occasionally have two offers on the same book. Generally, it’s because there has been some recent news about it.

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I cannot respond to you. I do not make offers to favorites. Manually it is unmanageable and I do not have the automatic function. I prefer to lower the price or republish.