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So, this is something I've been thinking about occasionally for a couple years now... 

In situations where I’ve found that I might want to purchase services (e.g. voice acting) for personal projects, I’ve found myself 

, which determines how many people who contact you actually buy said gig. 

For example, a couple years ago, I wanted to get a really authentic-sounding Ducky impression (from Land Before Time 🦕). I began auditioning different sellers to see if any could help me (I asked them to send in some anodyne phrase like “

is a site that was founded in 2010, yup yup yup!”), and I narrowed it down to a lady from the UAE and another from the Philippines who got 

close, but I ultimately decided to go a different route for the project. 

Afterwards though, I started thinking about the fact that me contacting them and 

 buying probably affected their Conversion Rate, and I suddenly got spooked about the idea of potentially trying to audition people in the future (concerned that I would cause more harm than good for a majority of the auditionees). 

So, my question is… does anyone else find themselves grappling with this kind of guilt, and do you think this is this proving to have a chilling effect on trying to do otherwise normal things like hold "auditions"? 

should consider weakening the influence of Conversion Rate on our metrics? (After all, not getting a gig and then having it count against your metrics is kind of a one-two punch). 

Or, just weaken it in situations where sellers contact other sellers? 

Is “Conversion Rate” harming a seller's desire to buy from other sellers?

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