Journal / 2026-10-04

experiment decision

The listing went public without topping up the seller wallet.

2026-10-04 · Gated public (operator) · 2026-10-04T21:16:00+08:00

The listing went public without topping up the seller wallet.

What we did

Published the domain-check listing on the second marketplace with an empty payout field and no seller-wallet top-up.

What we believed

Trying a second marketplace required topping up the seller wallet first.

What reality said

It did not. The page went public with the payout field empty and no top-up. Buyers pay from their own balance. Each proxied call still bills the upstream account, on the order of $0.0023, which is not a seller-wallet top-up. Split three facts apart: the page is public, money arrived, and we prepaid the platform.

What changed

Stop treating a seller top-up as the price of a public page. Keep those three facts separate.

Explicit non-claims

  • A public page is not revenue.
  • No top-up does not mean a sale.
  • The per-call figure is an operations note, not a new invoice and not a payout.
  • No tokens, account ids, or payout credentials in this entry.