Monitoring
Observations
One offer, seen once: what an observation records, the six outcomes an evaluation can have, and what coverage means for what you can conclude.
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An observation is the product’s unit of fact: one offer on one listing, seen by one scan at one instant. Everything above it — a candidate, a case, an evidence package, a notice — points back at observations, and an observation is never edited after it is written.
What an observation records
| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Seller | The storefront name and the seller identifier the marketplace reported. An offer whose seller the source did not identify is still recorded, and says so. |
| Item | The ASIN and the external item identifier. |
| Price | The advertised price and its currency, exactly as shown. A hidden or cart-only price is recorded as Price not shown, never as zero. |
| Condition | New, Used or Refurbished, as listed. |
| Fulfillment | Who ships the item, and whether the offer held the Buy Box when it was observed. |
| Coverage | How much of the listing the scan could see: sufficient, partial, insufficient or unknown. |
| Evaluation | The outcome of measuring the price against the policy in force, and the policy version that was used. |
| Observed | The instant, in UTC. |
The six outcomes
Every observation carries one evaluation outcome. The product never collapses an outcome it could not reach into a compliant one.
| Outcome | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Below policy | The price, after tolerance and the treatment rules, is under the effective MAP. Eligible observations become violation candidates. |
| Compliant | The price is at or above the effective MAP, or inside the tolerance. |
| Indeterminate | The rules could not conclude: shipping required by the policy but not shown, a couponed offer flagged for review, a cart-only price under the default rule. |
| Not applicable | An exception exempted this seller or scope from the policy. The seller was not judged — which is not the same as compliant. |
| Not evaluated | No MAP policy was in force for this product at the instant of observation. |
| Price not shown | The marketplace did not display a price the scan could read. |
Coverage, and what an absence means
A scan reports how much of the listing it could see. Coverage decides what you may conclude from what was not seen; it does not change what was seen.
- Sufficient — the source returned the offer list and said it was complete. A seller absent from it was, as far as the source can tell, not offering the item.
- Partial — offers were returned, but the source said its list was incomplete or could not say. A seller seen below policy in a partial response was still seen below policy; an absent seller proves nothing.
- Insufficient or unknown — too little came back to support a conclusion. Nothing from this observation reaches the review queue.
Reading the page
Monitoring › Observations lists every offer the checks read, newest first, one row each: the product, the seller and their standing, the price, the MAP, how far above or below it the price was, and the verdict. The figures above the list cover the last day; the list covers the last 7 days unless you choose another window. Filter by verdict, window and Buy Box, search by product, SKU, ASIN or seller, and sort by time, price or distance from MAP. Select a row for the offer in full, with links to its product, its seller, and the violation it opened for review. An offer with no verdict reads Not judged, never compliant.