LaserYield Archive

The record companies don't keep.

Companies quietly change what they publish, on their own pages, without a note. Almost none of it is kept.

Pre-collection Archive begins Aug 2026 Storefront Apple UK Days recorded 0
Tally, the LaserYield sloth, holding a coffee and a clipboard
01 / EVERY DAY

A depot that never closes.

The collector reads the same shelves, in the same order, at six every morning.

02 / EVERY PRICE

The same product, a different number.

One storefront, one SKU. Every price it has ever carried.

03 / KEPT

Filed before anyone asks for it.

Written once, never edited. The record exists before the question does.

Observed

It sat at £899 for seven months.

Read once a day. Written down once a day. Never edited.

The reason given

Then the part got expensive.

Memory spot prices more than doubled. The shelf price went up, and the part was the reason given.

What stayed

The cost came back. The price didn’t.

Spot returned to where it started. The shelf price is still exactly where it was put.

£899 memory, spot +118% the reason given £1,049 spot, back where it started TIME →

NOBODY KEEPS

THE RECEIPTS

Filings live on EDGAR forever. Last Tuesday's price lives nowhere. Product pages get overwritten, not archived.

One storefront, read every morning, never overwritten.

Apple UK publishes a price, replaces it whenever it likes, and keeps no copy of the old one. Visible to anyone who looks, gone by the time anyone checks.

A record of what was published in public, and when. Not investment advice, and not an accusation about anyone. The chart above illustrates the pattern; no data has been collected yet.

Three jobs, every day.

One depot. Read it, file it, prove it.

01 / Collector

Reads the shelves.

Visits every tracked page at the same hour, every day, and writes down what it finds.

Tally, sloth
02 / Archivist

Files it, once.

Every observation is appended and never edited. Corrections arrive as new records, not replacements.

Bandit, raccoon
03 / Auditor

Publishes the proof.

Hashes each day's records and posts the hash, so any later change to the archive is detectable.

Vex, fox