Archive · January–October 2026
We kept the 2026 working copy. Reading it a year later shows exactly where a spreadsheet stops being a catalogue and starts being a rumour.
Forty rows, no weights, three currencies. It worked because the audience was small and everyone already knew the sellers. The moment it was indexed by Google, the assumptions broke.
One in five rows pointed at a delisted variant. The sheet looked full and felt empty. We started retiring rows instead of patching them.
Buyers kept asking why a $40 haul cost $70 to ship. The answer was packed weight: poly bag, tape, box corners. Item weight was off by 140 g on average.
The old sheet said "QC available" on every row. It was true for about half. Splitting the claim into measured and pending removed the ambiguity overnight.
The archive was frozen, the schema rewritten, and the reading layer separated from the checkout. The 2027 index is the result.
What carried over
The 2027 index is not a redesign for its own sake. It is the 2026 sheet with the three biggest failure modes removed.
A page without a review date is a page you cannot audit. Every 2027 page carries one.
Packed grams decide the freight band. Item grams only decide whether the product is plausible.
QC pending, row retired, coupon expired — each one is visible rather than omitted.
Archive FAQ
Because the failures are the useful part. A dead row from 2026 tells you which categories churn fastest and which weight estimates to distrust in 2027.
Some survive, most do not. Use the archived row as a search phrase in the live catalogue rather than clicking an old link.
