Interesting explanation, I did not think of this one. Anyway, at least few of these people looking for the purchaser bot, really need it for buying items. Certain shops sell limited stock items, which are sold within few seconds and it seems impossible to buy them without using a bot.It seems people are trying to game their own items into the "popular" sections. If they keep buying their own item again and again and mark it as shipped/received Etsy will just take its 3.5% commission each time but the item will appear as popular and make some actual sales.