diff --git a/src/main/java/com/flippingutilities/model/OfferEvent.java b/src/main/java/com/flippingutilities/model/OfferEvent.java
index 2afe02e..2a95f87 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/flippingutilities/model/OfferEvent.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/flippingutilities/model/OfferEvent.java
@@ -93,8 +93,12 @@ public class OfferEvent
 
 	//Used in theGeHistoryTabOfferPanel and RecipeFlipPanel
 	private transient String itemName;
-	//used in the live slot view to show what price something was listed at
-	private transient int listedPrice;
+	// Exact limit price posted in the GE. This is distinct from `price`, which
+	// is the average execution price of filled units. Persisting it lets other
+	// local tools and a restarted client recover the price of an unfilled live
+	// offer; older account files simply deserialize it as 0.
+	@SerializedName("lp")
+	private int listedPrice;
 	private transient int spent;
 
 	/**
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/flippingutilities/OfferEventSerializationTest.java b/src/test/java/com/flippingutilities/OfferEventSerializationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..03be0f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/flippingutilities/OfferEventSerializationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+package com.flippingutilities;
+
+import com.flippingutilities.model.OfferEvent;
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
+import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class OfferEventSerializationTest
+{
+	private final Gson gson = new Gson();
+
+	/**
+	 * Parsed structurally rather than matched as a substring. `json.contains("\"p\":91")`
+	 * asserts nothing about the document's shape: it is sensitive to formatting, it cannot
+	 * tell a top-level key from one nested somewhere else, and it can be satisfied by a
+	 * longer key that happens to end in the one being looked for. Reading the field off a
+	 * parsed object tests what the assertion is actually meant to claim.
+	 */
+	private JsonObject serialize(OfferEvent offer)
+	{
+		return new JsonParser().parse(gson.toJson(offer)).getAsJsonObject();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The core guarantee: the two prices survive a round trip as separate fields. `p` remains
+	 * the average execution price and `lp` carries the exact price the offer was listed at, so
+	 * a live offer that has filled nothing still persists a usable price.
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void listedPriceIsPersistedSeparatelyFromExecutionPrice()
+	{
+		OfferEvent offer = new OfferEvent();
+		offer.setPrice(91);
+		offer.setListedPrice(94);
+
+		JsonObject json = serialize(offer);
+		assertTrue(json.has("p"));
+		assertTrue(json.has("lp"));
+		assertEquals(91, json.get("p").getAsInt());
+		assertEquals(94, json.get("lp").getAsInt());
+
+		OfferEvent restored = gson.fromJson(json, OfferEvent.class);
+		assertEquals(91, restored.getPreTaxPrice());
+		assertEquals(94, restored.getListedPrice());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * The equal-price case is the one a substring assertion cannot distinguish at all:
+	 * with both fields at 91 there is only one distinct value in the document, so a
+	 * `contains` check passes even if only one of the two keys was written.
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void listedPriceIsWrittenEvenWhenItEqualsExecutionPrice()
+	{
+		OfferEvent offer = new OfferEvent();
+		offer.setPrice(91);
+		offer.setListedPrice(91);
+
+		JsonObject json = serialize(offer);
+		assertEquals(91, json.get("p").getAsInt());
+		assertEquals(91, json.get("lp").getAsInt());
+
+		OfferEvent restored = gson.fromJson(json, OfferEvent.class);
+		assertEquals(91, restored.getPreTaxPrice());
+		assertEquals(91, restored.getListedPrice());
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Backward compatibility: account files written before `lp` existed simply omit the key,
+	 * and must keep deserializing. The field reads 0, which is the sentinel for "no listed
+	 * price recorded" — the same value an offer carried under the old transient behaviour.
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void oldAccountFilesDefaultListedPriceToUnknown()
+	{
+		JsonObject legacy = new JsonParser().parse("{\"p\":91}").getAsJsonObject();
+		assertFalse(legacy.has("lp"));
+
+		OfferEvent restored = gson.fromJson(legacy, OfferEvent.class);
+		assertEquals(91, restored.getPreTaxPrice());
+		assertEquals(0, restored.getListedPrice());
+	}
+}