About PriceFind
PriceFind records what products actually cost at South African online retailers, day after day, so a marked-down price can be checked against what the product usually sells for.
Reference window
180 days
How far back the usual price is measured.
Re-check cycle
Every 24 hours
Discounted products are checked more often.
Minimum history
14 days
Below this, no discount is claimed.
How a discount is measured
A price cut against yesterday's price is easy to manufacture. PriceFind compares the current price against a time-weighted average of every price recorded for that product over the past 180 days.
Time-weighted means a price that held for six months counts for more than a price that held for two days. A brief markup before a sale barely moves the baseline, so it cannot manufacture a discount.
Products with less than 14 days of recorded history show no discount at all. Between 14 and 60 days the figure is scaled down, because a short history is weak evidence. Only after 60 days of tracking does a product show its full measured discount.
Where the prices come from
Prices are read from the retailers' own public product APIs — the same data their websites use. Every tracked product is re-checked at least once a day, and products currently showing a discount are re-checked more often.
PriceFind does not sell anything. Clicking through to a retailer takes you to their own site, where their listed price applies.
What it will not tell you
- A price here can be out of date. The retailer's own page is always the authority, which is why every product links straight to it.
- History only starts when a product is first indexed. A product added last week has no useful baseline yet, and PriceFind says so rather than guessing.
- Delivery cost, stock at your address and promotions applied at checkout are not tracked. The comparison is on listed price alone.