Which Electronics Vary Most in Price Between Jordanian Shops

The numbers, category by category

Sorted from the widest gap to the narrowest. "Typical shop" is the middle shop when every shop's price for a product is lined up; each figure is the median across the products in that category, so one odd listing cannot drive the result.

Small items, big percentages

Mice, keyboards and audio top the table in percentage terms. The Logitech G502 HERO gaming mouse was listed by nine shops: JOD 28 at the cheapest (Gameak), JOD 35 at a typical shop and up to JOD 43. The Anker Soundcore C40i earbuds were JOD 38 at Al-Aryan Mobile against a typical JOD 49 across ten shops. Headphones and speakers were also the most widely stocked items in our sample, at a median of ten shops each.

In money these gaps are small - a saving of about JOD 2 against a typical shop - so few people will compare shops for one mouse. They add up when you buy several accessories at once.

Phones: the biggest money gap

Phones combine a wide spread with high prices, so this is where comparing shops pays most. The iPhone Air (256 GB), for example, was JOD 769 at iSystem, JOD 944 at a typical shop and up to JOD 999 across ten shops. The gap comes mostly from expensive models: the iPhone 17 range and the Galaxy S26 Ultra spread widely, while mid-range phones did not. The Honor 600 Lite (8 GB, 256 GB) was JOD 239 at all six shops that listed it, and the Honor X8d stayed between JOD 189 and JOD 202 across eight shops. Samsung's A-series phones were just as tight.

Where prices barely move: monitors, laptops and TVs

Monitors were the most uniform category. The Dell SE2425HM 24-inch was JOD 95 at all six shops that listed it, and the MSI PRO MP273 27-inch was JOD 108 or JOD 109 at seven shops. The one exception in the sample was the MSI MAG 32C6X curved monitor: JOD 167 at Arrow & Thunder against JOD 199 at most of the other six shops.

Laptops show a small percentage gap, 9.4%, but because they are expensive the typical difference between the cheapest and dearest shop was still JOD 55. In 5 of the 8 laptops two or more shops shared the lowest price. The biggest single saving was the ASUS TUF F16 with a Core 7 and an RTX 4050: JOD 880 at Platinum against JOD 999 at a typical shop. TVs behave the same way, and within TVs the brand matters: Samsung models spread far more between shops than TCL or LG.

Tablets, watches and consoles

Tablets sat in the middle, but Apple models spread more than Android ones. The iPad 11 (A16, 128 GB, Wi-Fi) was JOD 385 at Naser Tech while seven of the nine shops asked JOD 447 to JOD 449. The Samsung Galaxy Tab A11+ (6 GB, 128 GB) was JOD 199 at five of its six shops. Among watches, the Huawei Watch Fit 5 was JOD 115 at H4MJO against JOD 129 at five other shops.

Consoles are not in the table because only two were sold by three or more shops: the Nintendo Switch OLED (JOD 249 at Platinum, JOD 275 at a typical shop, five shops) and the Nintendo Switch 2 (JOD 399 at Pro4Card and Naser Tech, four shops).

What it means when you buy

The rule of thumb flips with price. On cheap items the percentages look dramatic but the money is a few dinars. On phones, laptops and big TVs the percentages look tame but the money is real, from JOD 20 to well over JOD 100. And in 24 of the 63 products two or more shops shared the lowest price, so you can often pick a shop for its warranty or delivery without paying more.

How we measured it

We read the category and product pages on priceteq.com on 9 November 2026. In each category we took the products PriceTeq lists as most compared and kept those that at least three shops sold, which gave 63 products across 44 shops. Figures are the prices shown that day for new, in-stock items, in JOD, exactly as each shop lists them; Jordanian retail prices include the 16% general sales tax. Each shop counts once, at its cheapest listing for that product.

For every product we took two numbers: how much more the dearest shop asks than the cheapest, and how much less the cheapest shop asks than the typical (median) shop. The table shows the median of each across a category. We dropped five listings that sat more than 25% below or 50% above the typical shop for the same product, because that usually means a different version or a matching error. Some shops' prices had last been re-checked a few days earlier. This is a snapshot of one day, not a forecast.

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