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All 125 articles on Deals Ka Baap, by section.
How Pricing Works
Section page →- The anchor price still works after you have named itAug 11, 2026
- Cost-plus and value pricing put two different tags on one objectAug 9, 2026
- Where a recommended retail price comes from and what it is forAug 5, 2026
- Prices ending in nine outlived the reason they were inventedJul 31, 2026
- The machine is priced against the refill it will needJul 29, 2026
- One product, three prices, and why that is the designJul 25, 2026
- Landed cost: the number a shop is actually working fromJul 23, 2026
- Two shops, one street, one product, two pricesJul 19, 2026
- Dynamic pricing is a rule somebody wrote in advanceJul 16, 2026
- Good, better, best: what the middle option is forJul 12, 2026
- Markup and margin are different numbers and shops think in one of themJul 9, 2026
- Every price contains the cost of the stock that never soldJul 6, 2026
- A loss leader is an advertising budget spent through the tillJul 3, 2026
- A price rise can arrive as a smaller packDec 1, 2025
- Some prices can move and some cannot, and sellers know whichNov 25, 2025
- The exchange rate moved months ago and the shelf has not heardNov 23, 2025
- Costs go up like a rocket and come down like a featherNov 18, 2025
- Whether tax sits inside the number changes what you are comparingNov 16, 2025
- Free is a price, and it behaves like no other numberNov 13, 2025
- When every shop shows the same number, something upstream decided itNov 8, 2025
- A repair bill is mostly time, and time is priced differently from thingsNov 5, 2025
When to Buy
Section page →- End-of-line stock does not behave like a seasonal saleJun 27, 2026
- The successor announcement is the event that moves the old priceJun 24, 2026
- Clearance runs to a schedule, not to a moodJun 22, 2026
- Seasonal goods are priced by how long a shop can hold themJun 18, 2026
- The sale calendar is a manufacturing calendar wearing a bowJun 16, 2026
- Waiting has a price, and it is the thing you do not own yetJun 10, 2026
- A pre-order has nothing pushing its price downwardJun 8, 2026
- Perishables reprice by the hour and durables by the quarterJun 4, 2026
- Why off-peak prices exist and what they are really sortingJun 2, 2026
- Prices move when stock arrives, not when the calendar says soMay 29, 2026
- Buying ahead for something you will certainly needMay 24, 2026
- The week before a deadline is the worst week to buyMay 22, 2026
- The shop season ends before your season doesNov 3, 2025
- What your old one is worth falls fastest the week the new one landsOct 31, 2025
- Sellers have deadlines too, and they are not the same as yoursOct 27, 2025
- A closing-down sale is a stock disposal, not a discountOct 23, 2025
- Some things never get cheaper, and waiting costs you twiceOct 19, 2025
- A cold snap is a demand event and prices treat it as oneOct 15, 2025
- Last year's specification is this year's cheap oneOct 14, 2025
- Buying early moves the storage problem into your houseOct 9, 2025
- Delivery speed is a menu, and the default is rarely the cheapest lineOct 6, 2025
Shopping Tactics
Section page →- Unit price is the only number on the shelf that compares like with likeMay 18, 2026
- Price history turns a discount claim into something you can testMay 16, 2026
- Total cost of ownership is a comparison, not a sloganMay 12, 2026
- Stacking offers: why two discounts rarely both applyMay 9, 2026
- Asking for a better price without becoming a nuisanceMay 5, 2026
- Price matching is a policy with edges, and the edges are the pointMay 3, 2026
- The same product under a different model numberApr 27, 2026
- Cashback and points are a discount with a failure rateApr 25, 2026
- Reading a receipt as a document rather than a formalityApr 22, 2026
- Display models, open boxes and imperfect cartonsApr 17, 2026
- Splitting one purchase across two sellersApr 15, 2026
- Comparison sites are marketplaces and their ranking is inventoryApr 12, 2026
- Check the total, not the itemApr 7, 2026
- Decide your maximum before you look at any tagOct 3, 2025
- An alert is patience you do not have to rememberSep 30, 2025
- A trade-in is two prices pretending to be oneSep 27, 2025
- How a second-hand price gets settled between two strangersSep 22, 2025
- Splitting a bulk buy with someone else beats buying aloneSep 18, 2025
- Two prices on one shelf and a card that decides whichSep 16, 2025
- Three quotes are worth nothing until the scope matchesSep 12, 2025
- It dropped the week after you bought it. Now what?Sep 10, 2025
Traps & Dark Patterns
Section page →- What a was price has to mean, and why proving it is hardApr 4, 2026
- The countdown timer that resets when you reloadApr 2, 2026
- Why the first number you see is the smallest one you will payMar 28, 2026
- A bundle can be cheaper and worse value at the same timeMar 26, 2026
- Free delivery above a threshold is an instruction to your basketMar 23, 2026
- Fifty per cent off and then twenty is not seventyMar 18, 2026
- The default is a price, and somebody chose which way it pointsMar 16, 2026
- Personalised pricing: what it can and cannot do to youMar 12, 2026
- A discount code printed on every page has become the priceMar 8, 2026
- Monthly instalments are a way of not showing the totalMar 4, 2026
- Pack sizes that exist so that nothing lines upMar 2, 2026
- Was, from and up to: the small words that carry the claimFeb 26, 2026
- Only two left tells you about a counter, not a shortageSep 6, 2025
- Paying in your own currency at a foreign checkoutSep 3, 2025
- A free trial is a diary entry you did not write downAug 31, 2025
- The free gift is valued by the person giving it awayAug 25, 2025
- When two shelf labels refuse to use the same unitAug 24, 2025
- Sale prices with a list of things they do not apply toAug 19, 2025
- This price is only good today, said the person selling itAug 15, 2025
- Once it is in your house you are negotiating from a worse positionAug 13, 2025
Returns & Warranties
Section page →- A guarantee and your legal rights are two different thingsFeb 24, 2026
- Free returns are priced in, not given awayFeb 18, 2026
- Who carries the risk while the parcel is in transitFeb 15, 2026
- The return window is a policy and the legal window may be anotherFeb 12, 2026
- Proof of purchase when the receipt has goneFeb 8, 2026
- Repair, replacement, refund: why remedies come in an orderFeb 6, 2026
- An extended warranty is an insurance product wearing a shop badgeFeb 2, 2026
- Payment routes are a second path when the seller stops replyingJan 31, 2026
- Return abuse is real and it shapes the policy you meetJan 26, 2026
- Why a refund takes days to come backJan 24, 2026
- Gift receipts change the remedy, not the rightJan 19, 2026
- The paper trail is the leverageJan 17, 2026
- What happens to your rights when a seller stops tradingJan 13, 2026
- Sending it back has a cost and somebody has decided who paysAug 8, 2025
- A fault and a change of mind are two different claimsAug 6, 2025
- Downloads, codes and the moment changing your mind stops being possibleAug 4, 2025
- Made to order narrows what you can ask for afterwardsJul 30, 2025
- Does the cover follow the item or the buyer?Jul 27, 2025
- A sticker saying warranty void is a claim, not a lawJul 22, 2025
- Buying from a person is not the same as buying from a businessJul 20, 2025
- Store credit is a remedy that keeps your money on the premisesJul 16, 2025
Household Spend
Section page →- The cheapest per unit is not the cheapest if it spoilsJan 8, 2026
- Eye level, aisle ends and the length of the walkJan 7, 2026
- Subscription pricing is designed around forgettingJan 3, 2026
- Price per wash, per cup, per kilometreDec 29, 2025
- Standing charges and unit rates are two halves of a billDec 28, 2025
- Own-label tiers are built as a price ladderDec 23, 2025
- The annual increase you agreed to when you signedDec 19, 2025
- Introductory rates and the price that follows themDec 18, 2025
- The renewal quote goes up because staying is the defaultDec 12, 2025
- Why the same bill costs more depending on how you pay itDec 10, 2025
- Estimated readings and the money that sits in the gapDec 7, 2025
- The small basket bought oftenDec 3, 2025
- Grocery savings live in swaps, not in salesJul 12, 2025
- A bundled bill hides which part got more expensiveJul 11, 2025
- The excess is the part of the risk you agreed to keepJul 6, 2025
- Fixing a rate buys certainty, and certainty has a priceJul 2, 2025
- Paying monthly is borrowing, whether or not it is called thatJul 1, 2025
- Charges small enough to survive every review you doJun 25, 2025
- The household paying twice for the same thingJun 23, 2025
- The price held and the service got thinnerJun 20, 2025
- What it costs to pay a bill late, and why it is never one chargeJun 16, 2025