diff --git a/frontend/tests/e2e/sold-filter.spec.ts b/frontend/tests/e2e/sold-filter.spec.ts
index 3a94f61..16b1a88 100644
--- a/frontend/tests/e2e/sold-filter.spec.ts
+++ b/frontend/tests/e2e/sold-filter.spec.ts
@@ -76,15 +76,28 @@ test.describe('Filtering the storefront by availability', () => {
     await expect(storefront.gridCell(NAMES.sold)).toHaveCount(0);
   });
 
-  // The control sits beside the Filters button rather than inside the drawer,
-  // so its state must not be counted as one of the drawer's filters.
-  test('does not inflate the Filters count', async ({ page, storefront }) => {
+  // Since #188 the tally is the number of chips, not the number of drawer
+  // controls, so a bar dimension counts like any other. This test asserted the
+  // older rule and went unnoticed for days because nothing updated it when that
+  // rule changed — see #239.
+  //
+  // The count and the chip row are deliberately the same number. Availability
+  // emits a chip for any non-default status so that ?status=reserved is not an
+  // empty grid with no Clear filters button, and counting bar chips differently
+  // from drawer ones would restore exactly the per-screen special-casing #188
+  // removed.
+  test('counts the availability preset in the Filters tally', async ({ page, storefront }) => {
     await storefront.goto();
     await storefront.chooseAvailability('Sold');
 
     // Matched loosely and asserted on the text, because antd's icon contributes
-    // its own aria-label to the button's accessible name. The text is the part
-    // that would gain a "(1)" if status were counted as a drawer filter.
+    // its own aria-label to the button's accessible name.
+    await expect(storefront.filtersButton).toHaveText('Filters (1)');
+
+    // The default earns silence: returning to it removes the chip, so the tally
+    // goes with it. Without this the test would pass on a tally that never
+    // decremented.
+    await storefront.chooseAvailability('Not sold');
     await expect(storefront.filtersButton).toHaveText('Filters');
   });
 });