The operation
Every flip moves through the same four lanes, in order. Nothing gets bought on a hunch: an item only reaches the cart after it survives verification and the margin check.
Scout the aisles
Walk clearance endcaps and yellow-tag sections. Photograph every candidate tag — shelf price is a rumor until it's scanned.
Bot 1 · ScoutVerify the comp
Check what the item actually sold for recently — sold listings, not asking prices — and screen for recalls, restrictions, and dead categories.
Bot 2 · VerifierPrice the flip
Run cost, fees, and shipping through the margin rules. Set the list price and the walk-away floor before money moves.
Bot 3 · PricerList & ship
Draft the listing, shoot clean photos, and prep the ship plan. Nothing publishes until Edward approves it.
Bot 4 · ListerCommand: the bot team
Muse runs this team in two roles at once. As Dr. Eggbot it designed each bot below — one job, one voice, explicit anti-jobs. As AI Chief of Staff it coordinates the lanes, holds the approval gates, and decides what reaches Edward. The bots live in MausBot on the Mac mini, so each lane ships with a paste-ready brief: copy it, drop it into that bot's chat, and paste the reply back to Muse.
Dr. Eggbot
Builds the team and keeps it honest: one job per bot, a “verify before you claim” bar on every output, a weekly lane healthcheck, and a monthly review that retires bots that stopped earning their keep.
AI Chief of Staff
The single front door. Clarifies what “done” means, routes work between lanes, holds the shared numbers, and enforces the gates: no purchase and no listing goes out without Edward's approval.
Margin calculator
The Pricer's rules, in a form you can run at the shelf. Verdicts: under 25% ROI is a pass, 25–49% is a maybe, 50%+ is a buy, 100%+ is a strong buy — after fees and shipping, not before.
Flip math
Type the clearance price off the tag and the resale price the Verifier's comps support. Everything updates live.
The find log
Log a candidate the moment the scanner surprises you. The log totals your capital at risk and projected profit across everything on the table. Entries live on this page only — close the tab and they're gone, so copy anything you want to keep into your own notes.
Add a find
Fee assumption for the log is 13.25% of resale, plus the shipping you enter — the same defaults as the calculator.
Listing builder
The Lister's draft format: a keyword-loaded title under 140 characters and a description that answers the questions buyers actually ask — condition, completeness, and shipping speed.
Draft a listing
Fill what you know; the draft updates as you type. Review it before it goes anywhere — the Lister drafts, Edward approves.
Shelf playbook
Field rules the Scout works by. These are the patterns resellers commonly report — treat them as leads to verify with the scanner, never as guarantees, because pricing varies by store and region.
The shelf tag is a rumor
Unmarked and “hidden” clearance is where the money is. Scan everything with the Walmart app — shelf tags lag behind the register price, often by a lot.
Read the cents
Resellers commonly report that a price ending in .00 or .01 signals a final markdown, while other endings may still drop further. If it's already profitable at today's price, don't gamble on the next drop.
Work the endcaps & the seasons
Clearance concentrates on endcaps, top shelves, and “clearance” aisles — and crests right after holidays and season changes, when yesterday's seasonal stock becomes this week's 75%-off flip.
Comps are sold prices
An asking price is a wish. The Verifier only trusts completed, sold listings from the last 90 days — and needs at least a few of them before an item earns a buy.
Small, light, shippable wins
Shipping eats flips. Favor items that are light, durable, and cheap to box; be wary of heavy, fragile, or hazmat goods (aerosols, chemicals) that marketplaces restrict.
Keep the receipt, log the find
Photograph the tag and keep every receipt with the item until it sells. The find log above is your in-store scratchpad; your records are what make tax time and returns painless.
Why the tag matters
The yellow clearance tag is the starting gun, not the finish line. It tells you an item is being exited — the scanner tells you how far the price has really fallen, and the Verifier's comps tell you whether the gap is worth your capital. Tag → scan → comps → calculator. Skip a step and you're guessing with your own money.
Ship it: Cloudflare
This site is one static HTML file plus an assets folder — exactly what Cloudflare Pages serves for free, with no build step and nothing to maintain.
Deploy in about two minutes
- Drag & drop (fastest): In the Cloudflare dashboard go to
Workers & Pages → Create → Pages → Upload assets, name the project, and drop in the folder containingindex.htmlandassets/. No build command, output directory is the folder itself. - Wrangler CLI: run
npx wrangler pages deploy . --project-name yellow-tag-hqfrom the site folder. The downloadablewrangler.tomlbelow pins the project settings. - Git-connected: push the folder to a repo and connect it under Pages — framework preset “None”, build command empty, output directory
/. Every push redeploys.