Inventory movement and stale pricing

Hoard can use your quantity history to skip a stale-stock reduction or gradually reduce stock that has not moved. Both settings are optional. Your price still starts with your chosen market reference and pricing rule.

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Protect recent movers

Protection applies only when stale reduction is enabled globally or for the card’s rule. With reduction off, the protection choice is saved but does not change the price. This setting replaces Boost fast sellers. It does not add a markup. Existing global and card-group on/off choices are preserved. When the 30-day quantity comparison shows at least two fewer copies and the movement signal is recent, Hoard skips the stale reduction. This protection takes precedence even if your rule uses a short waiting period. It does not prevent other parts of your pricing rule from changing the price. For example, if your market reference and rule produce $12.00**, protection leaves that amount at **$12.00. It no longer adds the former velocity markup on top. Find it in Settings → Repricing → Protect recent movers. Card-group rules can inherit the global choice or override it.

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Reduce stale prices

This remains off by default. When enabled:

1. Choose a waiting period (default: 60 days without an observed quantity decrease).
2. After that period, reduce the formula target by a percentage per week (default: 3%).
3. The reduction stops at 50% of the formula target and respects your minimum card price.
4. Never lowers price and your price-change limits still apply.

With a steady formula target of $12.00, a 60-day wait and 3$11.64 at day 67 and $11.28 at day 74. This is measured from the formula target; it is not another compounded discount on each sync.

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What the evidence means

Quantity history is a movement estimate, not a confirmed sales ledger. Five copies in the comparison snapshot and two now means a net decrease of three. Restocks can hide sales; corrections or removals can look like sales. Missing history means unknown, not zero sales. Hoard also compares imported order records with that estimate. Incomplete imports cannot prove that a card had no sales, so those order comparisons do not replace the current pricing calculation. If you want a separate, read-only list of live listings with no matched order line in the last 90 days, see find unsold inventory with an AI assistant. That search is a review starting point, not proof that demand is absent: it depends on current sync and order-history coverage, and refunded sales still count as sales. The price explanation shows your reference price, rule adjustments, any movement protection or stale reduction, and the limits that produced the final amount. Preview uses the same calculation. Market, supply and movement evidence cannot automatically remove your upward limit. The explicit Direct minimum and optional Direct fee-gap setting run after the cap and can raise its result; see Price change safety.