Price locks and repricing
Which price you are actually paid, and why the number can move between committing and arriving.
This is the part people are most often surprised by, so it is worth being blunt about.
You are paid the price recorded when the goods arrive
Not the price when you committed. Not the price when you shipped. The price at the moment the warehouse checks the goods in.
Every price change on every deal is recorded with a timestamp. When a unit is checked in, we look up what the deal was paying at that instant and credit that figure.
Why it works this way
Because the alternative is worse for both sides. If the price locked at commitment, a deal could be committed to in bulk and then sat on for months, and we would be holding an open-ended obligation at a price the market has moved past. Pricing at arrival keeps the offer honest and keeps deals open longer.
What this means for you in practice
Move quickly on thin margins
The gap between committing and arriving is your exposure. On a deal with a wide margin this rarely matters. On a thin one, a reprice while your package is in transit can take the run negative. Ship promptly.
- A price rise between committing and arriving pays you more. It works both ways.
- Watch Discord. Price changes are posted there as they happen, including which direction they moved.
- The app shows you the current price, not the price you committed at, because the current price is the one that predicts what you will be paid.
Shipping is a partial hedge
Once a package is genuinely in transit, the window is short — usually one to three days to reach the warehouse, plus one to three business days to be checked in. The long exposure is stock sitting in your garage after you committed. That is the part worth avoiding.