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  "headline": "e.l.f. cut prices when tariff relief hit; outperformed competitors holding margin.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GOLD · Tariff savings reinvested in price, not margin · e.l.f.\n\ne.l.f. cut prices when tariff relief hit; outperformed competitors holding margin.\n\nThis is the opposite of every MBA textbook move. When costs drop, boards say \"protect the margin.\" e.l.f. said \"own the customer.\" The math works because one month of heavy discounting at lower margin beats six months of normal sell-through at higher margin — plus you reset the relationship. Competitors who held pricing are still sitting on inventory and a buyer who remembered them as \"the expensive one.\"\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/elf-2026-09-30t15-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/elf-2026-09-30t15-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/elf-2026-09-30t15-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Pricing Play}\n◆ GOLD · Tariff savings reinvested in price, not margin · e.l.f.\n\ne.l.f. cut prices when tariff relief hit; outperformed competitors holding margin.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/elf-2026-09-30t15-3",
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      "title": "e.l.f. cut prices when tariff relief hit; outperformed competitors holding margin.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nWhen tariff relief improved balance sheets, most brands captured the extra margin. e.l.f. cut prices instead and outperformed the field, per Entrepreneur's analysis of real-time price calibration.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): price cuts during supplier-side relief work only if they're visible and felt as a sudden shift. Don't bury the savings in margin — announce the drop, run it for 30 days, then reset higher. The buyer doesn't care about tariffs; they care about feeling smart. A $2 drop on a $6 item feels like a win, even if you're still ahead on tariff relief. This trains the buyer to check e.l.f. first, and resets her reference price upward when you bring price back.\nWhat that means for you: This is the opposite of every MBA textbook move. When costs drop, boards say \"protect the margin.\" e.l.f. said \"own the customer.\" The math works because one month of heavy discounting at lower margin beats six months of normal sell-through at higher margin — plus you reset the relationship. Competitors who held pricing are still sitting on inventory and a buyer who remembered them as \"the expensive one.\"\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Entrepreneur: https://www.entrepreneur.com/building-a-business/how-real-time-price-calibration-protects-long-term-consumer-loyalty.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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