Most repricing conversations start from the wrong picture: a listing, a price, a competitor. On Back Market a listing does not have a price. It has one per country storefront, and your competitor in Paris is not the one in Berlin.
The short version
- A listing carries a price per market. Holding that by hand is not discipline, it is arithmetic nobody wins.
- MARGIXA asks you for one number: the floor. The price you would never go under.
- It lowers the price only as far as it needs to in order to win, and raises it back when nobody is close.
- Every listing card says one plain sentence about where you stand, taken from what the engine actually decided on its last cycle.
Why one price is the wrong mental model
Back Market sells through country storefronts. The same listing appears in several of them, each with its own buyers, its own competitors and its own price. Refurbed works differently again. So the question “am I winning?” has no single answer, and any dashboard that gives you one is flattening something that matters.
Currency makes it worse. A price in krona and a price in euro are not comparable until somebody converts them, and the markets outside your home currency are exactly the ones a manual repricing habit skips. Those listings then sit either invisible or underpriced for months, and nothing on the screen tells you.
The honest shape of the answer is a list, not a yes or no: winning here, losing there, and not in the race at all over there. That is the shape MARGIXA gives you.
The one question MARGIXA asks
When you turn Auto-Pricing on for a listing, there is one required field: the floor. The price you would never sell that unit below.
Everything else is a default you can leave alone:
- How far to undercut when it needs to win. Automatic, or a percentage, or a fixed amount.
- Whether to raise the price too when nobody is competing. On by default, because it is where the margin is.
- What to do when the unit is out of stock. Pause, so you are not defending a box for something you cannot ship.
That is the whole setup. The engine was always capable of more knobs, and the page used to show them. It stopped showing them because in the live data almost nobody moved them, and every extra control was one more thing a new merchant could set wrong on their first afternoon.
Where you stand, in one strip
The top of the page sorts every listing into a state, and each state is a filter. There are no percentages to interpret and no score to learn.
The state worth understanding is the third from the right. Competitor below your floor means the engine did what you told it to: it stopped rather than cross the line you drew. That is not a failure, it is the rule working, and it is the only state that asks you a question. Either the unit is worth less than you thought, or that competitor is selling at a loss and will be gone by Thursday. MARGIXA cannot know which. You can.
Inside one listing
Open a listing and it tells you the price it is selling at, the floor you set, and the profit on that sale. Not an estimate of the model’s average profit: the profit on that unit, from what that unit actually cost you.
The sentence on the card is a mirror, not a recalculation. It repeats what the engine decided on its last cycle, which means the page can never tell you something different from what was actually sent to the marketplace. A screen that recomputes its own verdict will eventually disagree with reality, usually on the day you most need to trust it.
The half everyone forgets: raising the price back
Every repricing tool lowers prices. The direction that quietly earns money is the other one, and it is worth spelling out because the loss is invisible.
- 1A competitor undercuts you on a Tuesday.
- 2Your price comes down enough to take the box back. Correct.
- 3By Thursday that competitor has sold out and gone.
- 4Nothing in that story puts your price back up. It stays low for as long as nobody looks, which on a few hundred listings is a long time.
Sales look fine the whole way through. The loss is the gap between what you earned and what you could have, and no report shows you that by default. MARGIXA closes it by treating the raise as part of the same job as the drop: when no competitor is near, the price walks back up toward what the market will carry, and never past what the marketplace will accept.
A floor is a number, not a feeling
Since the floor is the one thing you set, it is worth setting it properly. Two units of the same model bought three months apart do not have the same floor, and a floor taken from a model average will be too high on the cheap unit and too low on the expensive one.
For a given unit it has to absorb all of this before it earns you anything:
- What you paid for that device, not an average for the model.
- Parts and labour if it was repaired.
- Marketplace commission, which moves with the price itself.
- Shipping and packaging, including the return leg on the share that comes back.
- The margin you actually want, not the one you would accept at 11pm on a slow week.
MARGIXA already knows the first two, because they were recorded against the unit when it was received and repaired. That is why the profit figure on the card is a real number rather than a guess, and it is the reason per-unit purchase cost is worth capturing even when it feels like overkill at intake.
Checklist
Turning Auto-Pricing on without surprises
- Set the floor from what that unit actually cost you, not from the model average.
- Leave the advanced options alone on the first pass · the defaults are the safe ones.
- Keep raising the price enabled · it is the half that earns rather than defends.
- Turn on pause-when-out-of-stock so you never defend a box you cannot ship.
- Check the Competitor below your floor group weekly · it is the only one that needs a human.
- Leave listings you want to price by hand off, or paused, so they stay visible.
See it in the demo. The video opens at Auto-Pricing.
For the sharpest picture, open Settingsin the player, chooseQuality · 2160p (4K)and watch it full screen.
Questions we get asked
Can MARGIXA sell below my floor?
No. The floor is the one number the engine will not cross. If the only way to win a market is to go under it, MARGIXA stays where it is and the listing card tells you a competitor is below your floor, so you can decide whether that unit is worth matching.
Does it handle the different country markets separately?
Yes. Back Market sells through country storefronts and a listing carries a price on each, so MARGIXA checks them market by market and stamps what it found for every one. The card then tells you where you are winning and where you are not, rather than giving you one answer for the whole listing.
What about markets in another currency?
They are compared in a common currency before any decision is made, so a price in Swedish krona and a price in euro are actually comparable. Those markets are the ones merchants most often forget when repricing by hand.
Will it raise prices, or only lower them?
Both, and the raising is the half that quietly earns money. When nobody is close to you, MARGIXA walks the price back up, so a drop you made to win a box in March is not still costing you in July.
What happens to listings I want to price myself?
Leave them off, or pause them. A paused rule makes no calls to the marketplace at all, and the listing sits in the Paused group so it is visible rather than forgotten.