What are Boosts?
Boosts are yet another way to draw attention to your listing, but they are unique to Upgrades in certain ways (which we'll explain in a moment). Boosts give your listing prominence at the very top of our Marketplace listings page for relevant searches, including thumbnail picture and pricing information.
For example, a search of "turntables" might generate this:
So how are Boosts different from Upgrades? Unlike our Upgrade offerings, Boosts are (1) purchased by volume, (2) can be applied to multiple listings, and (3) are valid to use until exhausted. The current rate for Boosts is $10 per 10,000 impressions.
For example, you might purchase 10,000 Boost impressions and apply them to a listing, and that listing may only impress 2,000 times before the item is sold. You would still have 8,000 Boost impressions available to you to use for a future listing or listings.
What's more, you can use Boosts on as many or as few listings as you want, and you can disable and re-enable your Boost usage on a particular listing at any time.
Purchasing Boosts
There are several places where you can purchase Boosts.
While Creating a Listing
Once you've selected which payment methods you will accept from potential buyers, you will be directed to the Listing Upgrades page. There you will find Boosts below the available upgrades, directly under the Promote banner.
You can buy Boosts in $10 increments of 10,000 impressions. Adjust the slider to the amount of impressions you'd like to purchase. Boosts will be automatically applied to the item you are listing at time of your Boost purchase by default.
If your Boosts are depleted (or if you didn't purchase Boosts at the initial time of listing), you can go to the listing page of one of your current listings, where you can purchase more Boosts at the top of the page.
From Your Account Boosts Page
From the Learn > Boosts Page
Clicking on the Purchase Boosts button on our educational Boosts page will trigger the Boosts modal. You can purchase boosts separately on their own, regardless of if you have active listings or not.
Managing Boosts
There are several places you can manage Boosts, but the main place is Boosts under the Marketplace Settings of your MyPage, which you can access through the drop-down menu of your user profile in the top-right corner of every page on Audiogon.
This page contains your overall Boosts stats, remaining Boosts, and stats for each individual active listing.
This page will show you how many Boosts you still have available to use, which listings are currently utilizing Boosts, and which ones are not. You can change which listings are using Boosts by clicking on the Status icon for each respective listing.
In The Cart When Creating a Listing
When adding Boosts to your cart during listing creation, we will automatically enable them to be applied to the listings in your cart. If you do not want them enabled, simply click the toggle switch.
If you already have Boosts on your account, you will see an Enable Boosts button. Clicking this will bring up a similar toggle button on your listing. Once you checkout and complete your transaction, your boosts will be enabled on that listing.
Individual Listing Page
Just like how you can purchase boosts when you navigate to one of your active listings, you can also manage them.
If Boosts are inactive on your listing, you'll be able to click the Use Boosts to immediately enable them.
If Boosts are active on your listing, simply press the Pause Boosts button. If inactive, simply click
Order Confirmation Page
The Actions menu on the order confirmation page contains an option to Enable Boosts.
Actions Menu on Selling Tab
Similar to the Actions menu on the order confirmation page, the Actions button on your Selling Tab contains an Enable Boosts option. You may also select multiple active listings and use the Bulk Actions menu to Enable Boosts on multiple listings at once.
Need more help? Feel free to submit a support request.
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