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  "artifactType": "authored-manual-review-cases",
  "title": "Offer price reconciliation: eight fictional review cases",
  "author": "George Kelly",
  "editionDate": "2026-10-02",
  "exampleOnly": true,
  "scope": "Selected product-price fragments for manual reasoning; not complete Merchant Center uploads, complete structured-data records, or inputs to an executable validator.",
  "provenance": "Every product, seller, URL, timestamp, observation, and expected conclusion below was authored for this example. No live offer was captured and no provider submission was made.",
  "decisionVocabulary": {
    "aligned": "Supplied evidence agrees for the declared active product-price context and bounded time.",
    "conflict": "Comparable supplied evidence contains an explicit contradiction.",
    "hold": "A required fact, common context, or sufficiently concurrent capture is unresolved."
  },
  "reviewPolicy": {
    "maximumCaptureSpanMinutes": 10,
    "policyOrigin": "Illustrative author-selected evidence convention; not a Google deadline or processing guarantee.",
    "moneyScope": "USD amounts with two decimal places; the CAD case preserves a currency conflict without conversion.",
    "priceBasis": "Single-item merchandise amount, quantity one; shipping, tax, and final order total are not reconciled.",
    "unknownConvention": "JSON null means unresolved/not recorded, except where an explicit state confirms no active sale. Retain the associated state."
  },
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      "id": "google-price",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324371?hl=en",
      "checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
    {
      "id": "google-sale",
      "url": "https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/6324471?hl=en",
      "checked": "2026-10-02"
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      "url": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/merchant-listing?hl=en",
      "checked": "2026-10-02"
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      "url": "https://schema.org/price",
      "checked": "2026-10-02"
    },
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      "url": "https://schema.org/priceCurrency",
      "checked": "2026-10-02"
    }
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      "title": "A regular price and a lower active price can agree",
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        "itemId": "DEMO-MUG-BLUE",
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            "sellerId": "example-retailer",
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        "itemId": "DEMO-MUG-BLUE",
        "sellerId": "example-retailer",
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        "customerTier": "public",
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            "sellerId": "example-retailer",
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        "itemId": "DEMO-MUG-BLUE",
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        "priceBasis": "single-item merchandise amount; shipping and tax excluded"
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            "sellerId": "example-retailer",
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            "customerTier": "public",
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            "priceBasis": "single-item merchandise amount; shipping and tax excluded"
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            "taxAmount": null,
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        "authoredBy": "George Kelly",
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    },
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      "caseId": "P5",
      "title": "Member pricing is a different customer context",
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      "targetContext": {
        "itemId": "DEMO-MUG-BLUE",
        "sellerId": "example-retailer",
        "market": "US",
        "customerTier": "public",
        "currency": "USD",
        "quantity": 1,
        "priceBasis": "single-item merchandise amount; shipping and tax excluded"
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            "itemId": "DEMO-MUG-BLUE",
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