Why Sellers Switch from Price Spectre to Undercut

How the Hard Floor Works (and Why It Changes Everything)

A hard floor is a per-item minimum price that Undercut will never reprice below, no matter what competitors do. You calculate it once per SKU and Undercut enforces it automatically on every reprice cycle.

Worked example — a used electronics accessory: - Cost of goods: $8.00 - Shipping: $4.00 - eBay final value fee (13.25%): ~$2.25 on a $17 sale - Minimum margin target: 15%

Floor calculation: ($8.00 + $4.00) / (1 − 0.1325 − 0.15) ≈ $17.14

You enter $17.14 as the floor. If every competitor drops to $14, Undercut holds at $17.14 and stops — it does not follow the market off a cliff. This is the core reason sellers who have burned margin with aggressive repricers switch to a floor-first tool.

• Floor is set per listing, not account-wide, so high-margin and low-margin SKUs each get their own protection
• Undercut beats the current lowest competitor by the smallest increment above your floor
• If no room exists between the floor and the current lowest price, the listing holds at the floor

Price Spectre vs Undercut: Side-by-Side

The table below compares the two tools on the dimensions that matter most to mid-volume eBay sellers. Where we do not have current first-party data on Price Spectre, we say so plainly.

Getting Started: Setup Time Compared

One of the most common complaints about switching repricers is migration friction — re-entering floors for hundreds of listings. Undercut keeps setup simple: a single Floor Price field per listing, set in the dashboard, so the typical onboarding path is:

1. Connect your eBay account and pull in your active listings. 2. Set each listing's Floor Price in the dashboard — or use Undercut's floor calculator to suggest one based on cost + fee inputs you provide. 3. Repricing begins within minutes.

Price Spectre's setup process is documented in their own help center; our sellers who migrated report the Undercut path took under an hour for catalogs up to 500 SKUs. Your experience will vary by catalog complexity.

• No credit card required to start — 25 listings on the Free plan immediately
• Each listing gets its own Floor Price, set directly in the dashboard
• Settings are per listing — a hard floor, an undercut amount, and (on Pro and Scale) AI aggressiveness — not buried in nested logic trees

Repricing Speed: When Minutes Matter

Repricing speed determines how quickly you capture a price drop or recover when a competitor goes out of stock. Undercut's plan speeds are:

- Free & Starter: Hourly repricing - Pro ($79/mo, up to 1,000 listings): 15-minute repricing cycles - Scale ($199/mo, up to 10,000 listings): 15-minute repricing cycles, plus priority support

Faster cycles matter most in competitive, high-velocity categories like consumer electronics, trading cards, and media. In slower categories like vintage or antiques, hourly cadence is usually sufficient and the Free plan handles it fine.

Price Spectre's repricing frequency varies by plan; check their current pricing page for exact cycle times before making a speed-based decision.

AI Aggressiveness Tuning (Pro and Scale)

On the Pro and Scale plans, Undercut adds AI aggressiveness tuning — a per-listing setting that adjusts how quickly and how far the engine moves toward that listing's floor. A conservative setting makes small, slow moves to avoid triggering a price war. An aggressive setting moves faster toward the floor. It never overrides the floor and never goes below it.

Because it is set per listing, you can tune each item to match its own competitive dynamics: set a fast-moving electronics listing aggressive, set a collectible conservative, and let each one behave appropriately without manual intervention.

• Aggressiveness is set per listing, not a single global dial
• Conservative mode is the default — you opt into aggression deliberately
• Floor enforcement is unchanged regardless of aggressiveness setting; the floor is always the limit on how low the engine goes