# Buying a place in Perplexity search product cards | Illia BizTech

> The operator publishes how those cards are selected and states that a place in that section cannot be paid for.

Source: https://illia-biztech.de/en/forum/ein-vermittler-verkauft-platze-in-den-produktkarten-eines-ki-assistenten

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# An intermediary sells places in an AI assistant's product cards

Offered as paid placement among the suggested products, for a monthly fee.

* ##### Asked by  
FaintSocket352
* ##### Asked on  
September 16, 2026

We run an online shop for outdoor equipment. An intermediary offers to place our items among an AI assistant's suggested products for a monthly fee.

Asked how it works technically, he was evasive. What we were shown was a presentation with example cards.

#### Answers

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##### Illia Belichenko · Founder & Technical Lead

✓ Accepted answer September 17, 2026 

Perplexity describes how those cards are assembled, which has left your intermediary with a problem. The operator writes that it ranks product listings using criteria similar to those its answer engine applies to sources, meaning authority and relevance.

On payment there is a sentence you can use in the conversation. A place in the related products section cannot be paid for. Your provider is selling something the operator has published as unsellable.

A limit belongs with that, so you do not carry it too far. The sentence covers the related products section specifically. It asserts nothing about the service's advertising as a whole, and anyone claiming otherwise has also stepped past their source.

What carries weight here is the depth of your product data. The operator writes that merchants providing deeper product detail, including availability, reviews, pricing and specifications, are more likely to be recommended. That is unglamorous catalogue work, it costs less than a monthly fee, and [Illia BizTech](https://illia-biztech.de/en/) will do it if you would rather not.

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Perplexity search says it ranks product listings using criteria similar to those its answer engine applies to sources, meaning authority and relevance.

For the related products section the operator states that a place there cannot be bought. The statement covers that section. Concluding from it that the service carries no advertising at all steps past the source, which is the same error running the other way.