How Archive Luxury verifies every deal

Why this matters

Luxury commerce online is overrun by resale sites with no authentication chain, grey-market sellers pricing below MAP because the goods didn't come from authorized channels, and outright counterfeits indexed alongside legitimate listings. The shopper's cost of being wrong is steep: a $2,000 bag with no warranty, no return path, and no recourse with the brand.

Archive Luxury exists for the opposite case. Every deal we publish comes from an authorized US or EU luxury retailer with a direct brand relationship, every price has been pulled from a real structural source field on that retailer's product page, and every live listing is re-verified against the retailer's page every 30 minutes. Nothing here is estimated, derived, or aggregated across uncertain inputs.

The three-gate verification pipeline

Gate 1 — Sale verification

Two-source cross-check on every price: listing card vs PDP card, Algolia vs Apollo, feed price vs page price. Both sale_price_cents and original_price_cents are extracted from named structural locations — JSON-LD priceSpecification, Shopify compare_at_price, Magento special_price, or affiliate-feed fields — and never estimated, derived, or back-calculated from a sale price. If either price is missing or the two sources disagree, the product is skipped. Minimum 20% discount or reject; deals below that floor don't pass Gate 1.