Could this be a glitch? A few others in Facebook groups have shared the same situation – but when you check out the person’s closet, it really doesn’t look like they’re using automation.
Inquiring Mind
I believe this is a newbie bot user error. I have also seen it happen in my own feed. It can look like this in your feed if you don’t get other shares at the same time (if you did, you’d see those interspersed with the identical shares as above) and the person sharing your items has their bot set up to share your stuff (probably rotating through other closets in sequence as well), performing several loops of shares, sharing 1 item of yours each time. These loops might be 5-10 minutes long each (or other arbitrary interval depending on how they have their shares set up). And every loop the bot performs, it picks the same item of yours to share (either the first or last item in your closet when ranked by recently shared). It is an obvious bot fail, just not obvious to the newbie user.
As you know, I am pro automation, I will use it myself until there are actual teeth behind Poshmark’s “guideline” about bot use. Poshmark is also pro automation (=$$$$$ for them), they just can’t admit it or they’ll scare off potential small-time closet-cleaning sellers. So there is this terrible reality that is totally at odds with their policy. It really is sad, and I hate how much angst it causes to really good people working very hard to make money on Poshmark.
What to do when you see this in your feed: It might be tempting at first glance, but don’t block the people who do this! You can often “hijack” their software to share your items to their followers. Many are set up to autoshare items from closets who have shared one or more of their items, so by saving a list of closets that pull stunts like this and sharing even just one of their items, you can really rack up the shares. Because you share one of their items, and they may share 15 of yours (without even knowing it because their bot did it for them). Especially save and share from the closets who share 10-30+ different items from your closet!
Of course, you can fight fire with fire, and use a bot to hijack these other bots. Bots that can share other closets may allow you to make a list of 100+ mega-auto-sharing closets like this. Then you can run through a single loop of these closets, sharing only one (!!!) of their items, and many of them will automatically (and very quickly) share back many of your items. No kidding. If you do this after you have listed a few new items, those items will be seen further and wider right off the bat, get more likes quickly, and quite possibly sell a lot faster. It’s a very real strategy for responsible bot use (aka monitored bot use) that takes advantage of irresponsible bot use (unmonitored).
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