How we collect and compare prices

Where the prices come from

We read prices from the stores’ own public pages, as any visitor sees them: Amazon.eg, Noon, Jumia, B.TECH, 2B, Raya, Elaraby, Sigma Computer, Dream 2000, Tradeline, Compumarts, Homzmart, Fresh, Samsung Egypt, the supermarkets Gourmet, Spinneys and Seoudi, and AliExpress and Alibaba for shipping from abroad.

No store pays us for its prices, and no store sends us its own prices.

How often they refresh

We go through every category in every store several times a day (a full round about every three hours), and check a product again as soon as a visitor searches for it. A product page refreshes its prices in your browser when they are more than two minutes old.

An offer we have not seen on the store for 14 days, or that the store marks out of stock, does not count as a current price and never becomes the “best price”.

How we know it is the same product

The hard part of comparing is knowing that “Samsung Galaxy A56 8/256” on one store is the same as on another. Every new offer goes through fixed steps:

• We normalize the name: Arabic and English, and every way of writing memory and storage (8GB, 8 جيجا, 8G).
• We match the barcode or model number when the store gives one.
• We refuse a merge when anything essential differs: brand, model, storage, memory, size, pack count, one being an accessory for the other, or used versus new.
• An AI model then judges each look-alike pair, and two products are merged only when it says “yes, the same product”. Colours of one model stay one product.

Our rule: merging two different products is worse than showing one product twice. So you may sometimes see the same product on two pages, but you should rarely see another product’s price on yours.

Price history and price drops

We record each offer’s price whenever it changes, and summarize it daily. From that record we compute the 52-week low and high and the average price.

On the price-drops page we compare each offer’s price today with its own average over the last 30 days (leaving out the last two), and show it only when it fell 5% or more, saves at least 20 EGP, and has at least 5 days of history. We do not rely on the “was” price a store prints.

What we leave out

• Sponsored results and ads inside store results, and wholesale offers.
• A price far from every other store for the same product (usually a spare part or accessory matched by mistake).
• Products without a photo, and offers in a currency we do not know.

If you find a wrong price, or two different products on one page, write to us and we will fix it.