cycle 82: Fentucci 21 decode (reused c81 decoder) — benign flat-$5 sample $0.75 above the $4.25 house standard (2026-recent, private-label, not Kravet-MAP, not roll-mislabel, not disco); decoder flat=disco heuristic mis-fired (corrected: flat must be roll-scale); c68 abnormal-sample scope CLOSED 5/5 (532=455 roll-mislabel+56 disco+21 benign)

00101985e69d8c897c94346ee1381ef195b9eef0 · 2026-06-18 03:54:57 -0700 · Steve Abrams

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Author: Steve Abrams <steve@designerwallcoverings.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 18 03:54:57 2026 -0700

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+# Fentucci 21 — benign $5-sample off the $4.25 house standard (NOT mislabel/disco/free-checkout) — c68 scope CLOSED 5/5 — cycle 82
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+**DTD verdict A (unanimous 3/3).** READ-ONLY (reused the c81 `ol-basis-decode.mjs` vendor-arg decoder + Admin GraphQL + psql; no mutation), **$0**. Decodes the final c68 abnormal-sample remnant → closes the scope 5/5.
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+## 🎯 Result: Fentucci 21 = correctly-labeled $5 samples, $0.75 above the $4.25 house standard (the BENIGN case)
+- **21 single-variant "Sample" at a FLAT $5** (1 distinct price), all created **2026** (recent), active, barcode 0/21.
+- **Basis by elimination:** 0 in `kravet_authoritative_pricing`, 0 in `product_map`, 0/4,242 costed → NOT Kravet-MAP. Fentucci (Fabrics/Murals/Naturals) is a **DW private-label own line** (same family as the `private-label-va-agents-no-scraper` set) → pricing is DW's own call.
+- **Why this is NOT in the harmful buckets (the key decode):** $5 is **sample-scale**, so the "Sample" label MATCHES the price — this is NOT a roll-priced mislabel (contrast Cole&Son's "Sample"@$322 / O&L's @$76–962). It's NOT $0 (free-checkout). It's NOT a flat-roll-price disco placeholder (Thibaut's $125.43). It's simply **21 samples priced $5 instead of the $4.25 showroom-lines house standard** — off by $0.75.
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+## 🔬 Skeptical decode — the "flat=disco" heuristic MIS-FIRED (c74 discipline)
+- The c81 decoder auto-labeled this "FLAT placeholder=disco signal" because there's 1 distinct price. **That heuristic is wrong here:** flat-at-a-ROLL-price (Thibaut $125.43) is a disco-placeholder signal; flat-at-a-SAMPLE-price ($5) is just uniform sample pricing. **Price MAGNITUDE, not just flatness, determines the meaning** — I checked the value ($5 = sample-scale) rather than trusting the flat-flag, and the 2026-recent + active + private-label-own-line facts confirm current, not disco. (Heuristic-correction worth carrying: a flat-price disco signal must also assert the price is roll/per-unit-scale, not sample-scale.)
+- **Lifecycle (c74):** the exact-"Fentucci" vendor is 88% archived (2,589/2,947), but these 21 are 2026-created + active = recent additions, not stragglers of the archived bulk.
+
+## Severity — P3 / arguably benign
+- 21 correctly-labeled samples at $5 vs the $4.25 house standard = a $0.75 off-convention price on a private-label line whose price DW sets. No mislabel (label matches scale), no free-checkout, no deceptive "Sample"-at-roll-price. Lowest-severity of all 5 c68 vendors. Possibly intentional (Fentucci's chosen sample price).
+
+## ✅ c68 ABNORMAL-SAMPLE SCOPE CLOSED — 5/5 decoded
+| Vendor | Set | Basis | Lifecycle | Disposition | Sev |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Cole & Son | 352 | Kravet MAP (exact roll/panel) | current | SPLIT-fix (relabel + $4.25 Sample) | P2 |
+| Kravet | 13 | Kravet MAP (per-roll, per-SKU unit gate) | current | SPLIT-fix | P2 |
+| Osborne & Little | 90 | RRP (no MAP, unverifiable price) | current | SPLIT-relabel (label-only, no reprice) | P2 |
+| Thibaut | 56 | retail×0.45 (flat roll placeholder) | **discontinued** | unpublish→archive | P3 |
+| **Fentucci** | **21** | **private-label own, flat $5 sample** | current | **reprice $5→$4.25 (or accept) — benign** | **P3** |
+- **Total c68 abnormal-sample = 532**, now fully classified: **455 roll-mislabels** (Cole&Son 352 + Kravet 13 + O&L 90 → SPLIT-fix, the real customer-harm) + **56 disco-stragglers** (Thibaut → unpublish) + **21 benign $5-samples** (Fentucci → reprice-or-accept). No remaining unknowns. The c75 synthesis + the c75 canary's vendor-basis table are now gap-free.
+
+## Recommendation (GATED — Steve's call)
+1. **Fentucci 21: lowest priority / optional.** Reprice $5 → $4.25 for house-standard consistency, OR accept $5 as Fentucci's sample price (it's correctly labeled + sample-scale; no harm). Either way it's a 21-product cosmetic normalization, not a defect.
+2. **Heuristic note for the c75 abnormal-sample canary:** a flat-price "disco" classification must gate on price MAGNITUDE (flat roll-price = disco; flat sample-price = uniform sample pricing) — otherwise it would mis-flag a benign $5-sample set as disco (as the raw c81 decoder did before this manual correction).
+3. **c68 scope is closed** — the SPLIT-fix bucket (455) + disco unpublish (56) + benign (21) are the complete dispositions; all gated.
+
+_Cycle 82. DTD-picked A (unanimous 3/3). Decoded the final c68 remnant: Fentucci 21 = correctly-labeled single-variant "Sample" at a flat $5 (2026-recent, active, private-label own line, 0% costed, not Kravet-MAP) = a BENIGN $0.75-above-the-$4.25-house-standard sample price — NOT a roll-mislabel (price is sample-scale), NOT disco (recent+active), NOT free-checkout ($5≠$0). The c81 decoder's "flat=disco" heuristic mis-fired (corrected: flat must also be roll/per-unit-scale to signal disco). c68 abnormal-sample scope now CLOSED 5/5 (532 total = 455 roll-mislabels + 56 disco + 21 benign). PJ excluded. Gated; Fentucci is P3/optional._

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