# Buy box

The written criteria a buyer screens deals against: size, trade, geography.

Every aggregator sells buy-box matching and every broker asks what yours is, so the phrase is the industry's word for the thesis you screen against. Writing it down is what keeps a pipeline honest: after months of searching, an unwritten box drifts toward whatever the inbox happens to hold. Keep it to lines a listing can pass or fail: size band, trade, geography, owner involvement. Revisit it deliberately when twenty deals in a row fail the same line. That pattern is evidence about the market rather than about your discipline.

In numbers: A buy box reading $500k to $1.2M [SDE](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/sde), home services, within 90 minutes of home screens out a $300k SDE listing before the [CIM](https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/cim) costs a week.

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/glossary/buy-box
Not dated: A definition is editorial: what a term means, why it matters, and an example. None of it reads a source that can go stale, so there is no date to take and a stamped one would be the build time wearing a costume.

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