About PriceFind
PriceFind records what products cost at South African online retailers, every 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 fewer 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- A price here can be out of date.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.