Spotlight is advertising: sellers buy a position and the amount spent decides the order. Performance is earned: verified sales, buyer ratings, reliability and delivery speed, and no amount of money can move it. Both are on this page, always labelled, never blended.
Paid advertising. Position here is decided only by how much a seller has spent on placement — not by quality, sales or reviews. Every listing shown is still identity-verified and staff-approved.
Sign in as a verified seller to buy a Spotlight position.
Computed only from verified, completed orders paid through Attesar, feedback from those buyers, refunds and disputes, and delivery speed. Advertising spend is not an input and never will be.
Verified sellers with the strongest record in the period.
Every position is a score from 0 to 100 built from these parameters, in this order of importance. The same formula applies to everyone, and advertising spend is not one of them.
How the Spotlight board works
One parameter: the total a seller has paid to promote that listing. Highest total is #1, ties keep the order they were placed, and nothing expires. Joining costs $19.99 or more, taking #1 costs $5 above the current leader, and raising your own listing costs $1 above your current total and charges only the difference. Only published listings from identity-verified sellers can be promoted, payments are final, and placement changes nothing else on Attesar — not search, not Performance, not reviews.
Published in line with the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020 and the Dark Patterns Guidelines, 2023 (India); Regulation (EU) 2019/1150, Article 5, and Directive 2005/29/EC, Article 7(4a) and Annex I point 11a (EU); the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (UK); and the FTC Act with 16 CFR Part 465 on consumer reviews (US). Feedback comes only from verified purchases and is never suppressed for being negative.