One hundred and eighteen distinct Flipkart emergency light and extension board listings, read 4 November 2026 from Flipkart's own search data. The 23 listings from brands you can name - Philips, Eveready, Havells, Crompton, Bajaj, Orient, Wipro, Fybros, Portronics - run a median badge of 40% and never state more than 2.60x their price. The other 95 run a median badge of 69% and reach 10.05x. And the named group is the dearer one: median Rs. 552 against Rs. 392. Two lanterns sell at exactly Rs. 329 and are badged 75% and 56%. Nineteen listings state exactly Rs. 999; fifteen publish no rating. A price read - no claim about brightness, load rating or electrical safety.

A plain-English reading of Amazon India's own "Amazon Prime Membership Benefits" page, read 4 November 2026, logged out, from India. Amazon describes three tiers — Prime, Prime Lite and Prime Shopping Edition — and writes the delivery benefits of all three in near-identical language, including "No minimum order value required for FREE Standard Delivery". The split is entertainment: full Prime streams to "up to 5 devices (including up to 2 TVs)"; Prime Lite to "1 device in HD quality with ads" and not on web browsers; Shopping Edition gets no Prime Video, Music, reading or Luna at all. Prime benefits also exclude "large appliance and furniture" items, and gifting a membership is "currently unavailable". No membership price is quoted here, because the benefits page states none.

A plain-English reading of Amazon India's own EMI help page, read 4 November 2026, logged out, from India. No Cost EMI removes the interest — "the total interest payable is already adjusted in the price of the order" — but not the bank's processing fee, which is "billed with your first EMI". Amazon publishes that fee card by card and it runs from Rs. 45 + taxes (SBI, 6 months) to Rs. 599 + GST (Axis, Rs. 50,000 and above). ICICI debit is Rs. 99 + GST and ICICI credit Rs. 299 + GST. The full purchase price is blocked first and converts "within 2-4 days". Minimums run Rs. 1,998 to Rs. 8,000 by method. Not financial advice.

A plain-English reading of Amazon India's own "Amazon.in Returns Policy" page, read 4 November 2026, logged out, from India. Return eligibility is not purely a property of the product: "Returns eligibility is based on your account history ... over the past six to twelve months". "Amazon does not allow requests for unlimited returns and/or free returns", and a Return processing fee "will be deducted from the total amount paid ... before the refund is issued" — no amount is quoted here because the page states none. Items marked non-returnable still get a refund if damaged or wrong, but only within 5 days. Returns need the MRP tag intact. Not legal advice.

Thirty-four distinct Myntra men's kurta-set listings, read 4 November 2026 from Myntra's own listing data. Two sets are each on the shelf twice: a House of Pataudi set at Rs. 1,293 and Rs. 1,295, and a Jompers set at Rs. 1,072 and Rs. 1,137 - each pair sharing one stated MRP and one rating count to the digit. Only 20 distinct stated MRPs sit behind 34 distinct prices; three sets all state Rs. 3,699 and are badged 81%, 80% and 78% purely on price. Every listing read is badged at least 60% off; the deepest, 83%, publishes no rating at all. Prices Rs. 702 to Rs. 1,987, median Rs. 1,105. A price read - no claim about fabric, stitching or fit.

AbhiBus's Great Indian Bus Sale – Diwali Special runs on code DIWALI from 2 November 2026 to 30 November 2026, 11:59 PM, read from AbhiBus's own offer payload on 4 November 2026. The tile says "up to 20% OFF"; the terms say new users get 20% instant plus 20% cashback capped at Rs. 200 each, and existing users get 6% plus 6% capped at Rs. 150 each. Minimum Rs. 500, once per user, private operators only, not stackable. Cashback goes to the AbhiBus wallet, not your card. Also inside: RBL300 works every day except Thursday and Friday, SBICAB works only on Thursday and Friday, and nine separate state-corporation codes.

Sixty-nine distinct AJIO women's nightwear listings, read 4 November 2026 from AJIO's own search API. The deepest badge on the shelf, 93%, sits on a Rs. 399 set stating Rs. 5,970. The shallowest, 1%, sits on a Rs. 197 nightdress stating Rs. 199 - the 93%-off garment costs more than twice the 1%-off one. Three listings sell at exactly Rs. 419 and are badged 93%, 75% and 30%, two of them from the same brand. Fifteen tiles sell at exactly Rs. 356 against exactly Rs. 699, all badged 49%. All 69 publish no rating at all. Prices Rs. 197 to Rs. 1,527, median Rs. 449; claims 1.01x to 14.96x. A price read - no claim about fabric, fit or opacity.

Forty distinct Tata CLiQ shoe rack and wardrobe listings, read 4 November 2026 from Tata CLiQ's own product API. The badge on this shelf is almost entirely a function of brand: Godrej Interio states 1.16x its price on three listings and is badged 13% to 14%; Delite Kom holds 27 of the 40 and is badged 39% to 49% on every one; Durian and Madesa are badged 60% to 65%. The deepest badge in the read, 68%, is also a Godrej - on the cheapest rack on the shelf. Two listings sell at exactly Rs. 8,490 and are badged 49% and 41%. Prices Rs. 5,490 to Rs. 22,990, median Rs. 8,444; 37 of 40 publish no rating. A price read - delivery and assembly not included.

Sixty-two Flipkart shoe-rack listings and forty from Tata CLiQ, both read 4 November 2026 from each retailer's own data. Flipkart: Rs. 178 to Rs. 7,668, median Rs. 259.50. Tata CLiQ: Rs. 5,490 to Rs. 22,990, median Rs. 8,444.50 — a 32.5x gap between the medians. 61 of Flipkart's 62 listings cost less than Tata CLiQ's cheapest, and not one brand appears on both shelves. But the gap is mostly product, not pricing: 59 of Flipkart's listings are sub-Rs. 1,000 plastic and PVC stands, while Tata CLiQ's are metal and engineered-wood furniture. Badges invert — 77.5% median against 44% — and so does the evidence: 58 of 62 rated against 3 of 40.

One hundred and fourteen distinct Flipkart cloth drying stand listings, read 3 November 2026 from Flipkart's own search data. Forty-one of them state exactly the same Rs. 5,999 MRP, across nine unconnected brand names - TNC (12), Unizone (10), Flipkart SmartBuy (8), FAVOUR (6) and five more - behind selling prices running Rs. 918 to Rs. 1,705. Flipkart's own SmartBuy makes the smallest claims on Flipkart's own shelf: a median 2.97x against 3.69x, at a median Rs. 1,097 against Rs. 1,359. One SmartBuy rack is sold at Rs. 1,340 and Rs. 1,273 on one 10,721-rating pool, and the deeper badge is the dearer tile. Median listing Rs. 1,290 at 73% off; claims run 1.07x to 8.23x. A price read - no claim about steel, load or stability.

Seventy-seven Tata CLiQ curtain listings, read 3 November 2026 from Tata CLiQ's own listing data. On this shelf the discount badge belongs to the house, not the curtain. All ten DDecor tiles - six under "DDECOR Live beautiful", four under "DDecor" - are badged exactly 25%, across prices from Rs. 1,124 to Rs. 2,774 and five different stated MRPs. All five SEJ by Nisha Gupta tiles are badged exactly 70%. Saral Home's eight never leave 22-24%. The deep-badge houses claim three to five times what they charge; the shallow ones about 1.3 times. The cheapest curtain here, Rs. 314, is badged 76%; the dearest, Rs. 3,467, is badged 5%. 57 of the 77 publish no rating. A price read - no claim about fabric, GSM or blackout.

Amazon India's own customer-service page, "What to do when order is marked undeliverable", read 3 November 2026 logged out from India. "All undeliverable packages are returned to our fulfillment center within 13 days. We cannot ship the orders again that have been returned to us." The courier "cannot retrieve and deliver an undeliverable package, even if it is at a local courier station". The refund starts "once we receive the item", goes to the original payment method, and then "will depend upon the payment mode chosen by you". Amazon names eight reasons, one of them a dog at the address. Third-party seller items go to the seller, with the A-to-z Guarantee behind them. A reading of a help page, not legal advice.

Fifty-six Amazon marker and highlighter listings, read 3 November 2026 from Amazon's own search results. Split by brand, the shelf divides almost perfectly. The 27 listings from established stationery houses - Camlin, STABILO, Posca, Faber-Castell, Staedtler, Sharpie, DOMS - run a median badge of 11% and a median stated MRP 1.12 times the price. The other 29 run a median badge of 75% and a median claim of 3.96x. Their median prices: Rs. 175 and Rs. 189. A fourteen-rupee gap and a sixty-four-point one. The shallow group also carries roughly twice the ratings. One listing states Rs. 12,100 behind a Rs. 121 eraser and is excluded from every figure. A price read - no claim about ink, tips or safety.

Nykaa's published Terms of Use, read from nykaa.com/terms-conditions on 3 November 2026 — 37,343 characters across 25 clauses. Clause 4: "We do not take ownership of the goods, nor do we manufacture or inspect them", and product-claim liability "remains between the buyer and the seller". Clause 7: your order is an offer Nykaa has not accepted until the product is delivered — before then the price can be changed or the order cancelled, even after payment. Clause 5 routes side effects to the manufacturer. COD runs above INR 249, there is no international shipping, chat logs are stored and you have no right to see them, and disputes go to arbitration seated in Mumbai. Nothing was tested; not legal advice.

Nykaa's Customer Grievance Redressal Policy, published inside nykaa.com/privacy-policy and read on 3 November 2026 — 21,951 characters, version 1.4, stamped 29 January 2026. The policy refers to "timelines stated in this policy" and states none: no day, hour or week figure appears anywhere in it. What it does publish is concrete — a named Grievance Officer under the IT Act 2000, 1800-267-88888 and chat, Mon to Sun 8 AM to 10 PM, and a trackable complaint number. One rule catches people out: write to the officer before exhausting support and the email can be diverted back to support@nykaa.com. Account deletion runs through privacy@nykaa.com under DPDPA'23. Nothing tested; not legal advice.