PriceTeq does not sell anything and does not take orders. We read the prices that electronics shops publish on their own websites, put the same product side by side, and link every price back to the shop. The pages are built by our software every night; people check the parts software gets wrong. This page explains both.
1. Which shops we read
We list online shops that show a price on the product page: big chains, marketplaces' own stores, brand stores and small independent shops. We add a shop when we can read its prices reliably every night. We hide it again when we no longer can, for example when its site breaks, blocks us, or its prices stop changing for weeks. A shop never has to pay to be listed, and listing is never a reason to rank higher.
2. How often prices are checked
Every night we re-read each shop's products: the price, whether it is in stock, and whether the listing still exists. A few shops that are slow or hard to reach are read every other night. Each price on a product page says when we last confirmed it, and a product that sells out stays on the page marked as sold out rather than silently disappearing, so you can see that it was there.
3. Deciding two listings are the same product
Shops write the same product in many ways, in English and in Arabic. We read each title and its specs and pull out the model and the configuration. Two listings only sit in the same comparison when those match:
- Laptops: model, processor, memory, storage, graphics card and condition.
- Phones and tablets: model, storage, and the regional version where the shop states it.
- TVs and monitors: model number and screen size.
- New and refurbished units are never mixed: a renewed phone is never shown as the cheapest new one.
A listing that is the same model in a different configuration appears under "Other versions", not in the price list. Accessories (cases, chargers, bags) are kept out of the device lists.
4. Currency and VAT
Every market is shown in its own currency, never converted. Where a country charges VAT and a shop shows its price before VAT, we add the tax so that every row compares the price you actually pay.
| Market | Currency | Tax included |
|---|---|---|
| United Arab Emirates | AED | 5% |
| Saudi Arabia | SAR | 15% |
| Qatar | QAR | None (no VAT) |
| Jordan | JOD | 16% |
| Oman | OMR | 5% |
| Egypt | EGP | 14% |
| Kuwait | KWD | None (no VAT) |
| Bahrain | BHD | 10% |
5. Prices we leave out
A price below 40% of the usual price for the same product is almost always a misread or a different item: a spare part, a deposit, an instalment, or a used unit listed under the new one. We drop it from the comparison and from the price history instead of advertising a deal that does not exist. We also skip listings with no price, a price of zero, or "call for price".
6. How the list is sorted
Cheapest first. Offers we confirmed in stock in the last 48 hours come before sold-out or older ones, so the top row is one you can buy today. No shop can pay to move up, to look cheaper than it is, or to hide another shop. Shops can pay for a dashboard that shows them their own prices and traffic; that changes nothing on the public list. If we ever show a paid placement, it is labelled as one.
7. Price history, the verdict and the price log
For every product we store the lowest in-stock price across shops for each day, and show the last 90 days as a chart. The "Is this a good price?" verdict compares today's lowest price with that history, and only appears once we have tracked the product for at least two weeks. The price log lists cuts, raises, restocks and new shops. Only the cheaper side is named: a shop that raises a price or sells out stays anonymous. A drop on PriceTeq comes from our own history for that listing, never from a shop's crossed-out "was" price.
8. Which pages we ask search engines to show
A product page earns a place in search only when it is a real comparison that no single shop could give you. A page with fewer shops stays on the site for anyone who needs it, but tells search engines not to index it. The bar is the number of different shops with the product in stock at a confirmed price:
- United Arab Emirates: 8 shops or more.
- Saudi Arabia: 10 shops or more.
- Qatar: 10 shops or more.
- Jordan: 6 shops or more.
- Oman: 6 shops or more.
- Egypt: 12 shops or more.
- Kuwait: 10 shops or more.
- Bahrain: 5 shops or more.
Shop pages, the second and later pages of a list, and our filtered laptop lists are for browsing only and are not indexed.
9. How our buying guides are written
Our guides are written by people, from our own price data. Each one says the day its prices were read, uses only prices our nightly check confirmed that day, and explains how the numbers were measured at the end. The guides name the cheapest shop for a product but never call out a shop as the expensive one. Prices move every day, so each guide links to the live list for today's numbers.
10. What people check, and how to correct us
Matching is automatic, so it is sometimes wrong. Every product page has a button to report a wrong price, wrong stock, or two products that are not the same. Our team reads every report, fixes the match or the shop's data, and approves any buyer note before it appears under a price. Shops can email [email protected] from their own address to correct a listing or ask to be removed; we handle those within 3 working days.
What PriceTeq cannot promise
A price can change at the shop after our nightly read, and a shop's site can be wrong. Always confirm the price, the exact product and the warranty on the shop's own page before you pay. More about us on the about page; questions go to the contact page.