My "Save to Wish List" count never changes

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I noticed that my “Save to Wish List” number is always the same since long ago. At first I thought I was unlucky that no one else was saving my listing to their favorite list but then I started to worry if something wasn´t working here. So I created a test user to self- save my pwn listing and see how it goes. For my surprise the number added up “1” but then 5 minutes later it went back to the orginal count. I tested again with another test user and the same happened. So I’m stuck with that number.

Have any of you notice the same problem in your listing?

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How important is that number to you?

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Number of saves is one of the algorithms Airbnb uses when decided on your search rankings. I myself have saved all my properties, I have asked all my friends who have Airbnb accounts, and sometimes even asks guests to. I would call support and mention the issue, they are very good about investigating glitches like that.

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Maybe they will start selling locations in the search listings like the other major site…

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Exactly, that number plays an important role in the search algorithm. I haven´t been lucky when reaching support for this kind of things. They start bouncing my emails and I never get a proper answer. I will try again to see what it happens

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I couldn’t see my saves until this week and whoa what a surprise for me! I have also started noticing it for the Miami area and those folks that have been around for a while have more saves as well.

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I have made a more intensive self-test yesterday and what I saw that Airbnb is freezing the wish list count for some hostsl. When I clicked on the “Save” button the number increased by one,but the next day it was taken back to the previous count. I would though that other user could have delisted my apt so this could be a simple coincidence but this was the case of 20 of 30 listings I used in my test cases. The other 10 listings didn´t suffer any issue but note that I have included them on purpuse because what they all have in common is that they are new hosts or they have a few little savings. I have a strong feeling that Airbnb is favoring new hosts against old ones because I clearly see this on the serach ranking however I would never though that it will take this to a point on which they will start manipulating the wish lists savings. It looks very bad :frowning: