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Dario Mesyats

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10-15-2006 04:24

Hello !

items with top positions in "SLX Sales Rank" are sold a lot ?

how many items the creator should have sold to figure in the top ten of Popular Items for you opinion ?

Cybin Monde

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10-16-2006 08:54

moved from Shopping to Resident Answers, hopefully an answer can be found here.

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Apotheus Silverman

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10-16-2006 13:19

Hi Dario,

The sales rank algorithm is actually quite complex, and there is no hard number that I can give you to answer your question.

What I can tell you is that the number of sales and price are taken into account. After that there is some filtering to make sure people can't easily cheat the system and then the price is weighted so that outliers are capped. In other words, you can't make it to the top of the list by selling one extremely expensive item, and at the same time it isn't impossible for very low-priced items to make it to the top.

The number of sales required to make the list is always changing along with overall sales, but here are a couple of examples as of right now:

An item costing L$1000 with 8 sales over the past 3 days would be at #10.
An item costing L$500 with 20 sales over the past 3 days would be at #2.

I hope this helps.

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Dario Mesyats

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10-16-2006 15:30

thank you !

Question about the SLExchange Popular Items
Dario Mesyats Registered User Join date: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 3	10-15-2006 04:24 Hello ! items with top positions in "SLX Sales Rank" are sold a lot ? how many items the creator should have sold to figure in the top ten of Popular Items for you opinion ?
Cybin Monde Resident Moderator (?) Join date: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 2,468	moved 10-16-2006 08:54 moved from Shopping to Resident Answers, hopefully an answer can be found here. _____________________ "We, as developers, are doing the easy part – building the scaffolding for a new world. You, as the engines of creation, must breathe life into it." - Philip Linden "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be." - Willy Wonka (circa 1971) SecondSpace (http://groups.myspace.com/secondspace) : MySpace group for SLers.
Apotheus Silverman I write code. Join date: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 416	10-16-2006 13:19 Hi Dario, The sales rank algorithm is actually quite complex, and there is no hard number that I can give you to answer your question. What I can tell you is that the number of sales and price are taken into account. After that there is some filtering to make sure people can't easily cheat the system and then the price is weighted so that outliers are capped. In other words, you can't make it to the top of the list by selling one extremely expensive item, and at the same time it isn't impossible for very low-priced items to make it to the top. The number of sales required to make the list is always changing along with overall sales, but here are a couple of examples as of right now: An item costing L$1000 with 8 sales over the past 3 days would be at #10. An item costing L$500 with 20 sales over the past 3 days would be at #2. I hope this helps. _____________________ Apotheus Silverman Shop SL on the web - SLExchange.com Visit Abbotts Aerodrome for gobs of flying fun.
Dario Mesyats Registered User Join date: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 3	10-16-2006 15:30 thank you !

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