TK-10978: VERIFY correction — Track 0 quote-only 'free prize' is a phantom (5271/5474 already correctly quote-tagged; PF is do_not_price=false; real gap ~203)

5a24ba1254aa840ed9796b51e2689e34b3e9eafb · 2026-08-30 23:40:40 -0700 · Steve Abrams

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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 30 23:40:40 2026 -0700

    TK-10978: VERIFY correction — Track 0 quote-only 'free prize' is a phantom (5271/5474 already correctly quote-tagged; PF is do_not_price=false; real gap ~203)
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@@ -79,3 +79,27 @@ Ranked by ROI (recovery per unit effort):
 - **Malibu 1/339 join** — the low join rate is real (measured); root cause (SKU-form remap vs genuinely-absent WallQuest rows) not yet confirmed. Reconcile effort could be small (remap) or larger (missing source rows).
 - **Coordonné / AS Creation** — retail present but partial/malformed; assumed re-scrape fixes it, not verified end-to-end.
 - Registry `buy_from` (Pierre Frey→Schumacher, Maya→Quintus, Fabricut→Duralee) implies the real cost owner may be the distributor, not the named brand — affects where a cost list would come from.
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+## ⚠️ VERIFICATION CORRECTION (codex-10875, VERIFY-BEFORE-ACT) — Track 0 is a PHANTOM
+
+Independently checked the Track-0 "~5,689 free prize" against live `vendor_registry` + the
+`shopify_products.tags` column. It does NOT hold:
+
+1. **Pierre Frey is `do_not_price=FALSE`** in the registry (not quote-only per the authoritative
+   flag) — remove its 659 from the quote-only track. Verified `do_not_price=t` set = 6 vendors
+   (Alan Campbell, China Seas, Home Couture, Phillip Jeffries, Quadrille, Suncloth).
+2. **5,271 of the 5,474 unbuyable across those 6 vendors ALREADY carry a quote-style tag**
+   (`quotes`/`Needs-Price`/`contact-for-price`) — i.e. they are ALREADY correctly-configured
+   quote-only products. `has_product_variant=false` is CORRECT-BY-DESIGN for a quote-only line
+   (you request a quote; there is no sellable roll). They are NOT a revenue hole.
+3. **Only ~203 truly lack any quote tag** — that is the entire real Track-0 gap, and even those
+   need per-product verification (they may have other treatment or be genuinely display-broken)
+   before any (reversible, tag-add) fix.
+
+**Corrected conclusion:** Track 0 is ~203 (unverified), not 5,689. The "unbuyable" flag is a
+FALSE signal for quote-only lines. Do NOT mass-act on the do_not_price vendors — they are
+working as intended. Genuine remaining recovery = the FEED-FIRST priceable vendors (Rebel Walls
+494, Coordonné partial, Malibu SKU-reconcile, Thibaut 203 join-gap) + Track B cost-lists
+(Phillipe Romano 8274, Koroseal 2448). Lesson: a "flag=true" backlog count must be checked
+against the intended-state (tags/policy) before it's called recoverable.

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