Wall decor is a category where the advertised discount does most of the talking, so it is worth checking what the prices actually do. We parsed 90 Myntra listings on 4 October 2026 and seated 24. Nothing on the whole shelf sells above Rs. 1,122, while stated MRPs run as high as Rs. 6,999. Sixteen listings under nine different brand names state an identical Rs. 999 list price and sell between Rs. 241 and Rs. 581; six more share one stated Rs. 5,995. The deepest badge in the read, 90%, sits on a listing with seven ratings, while the most expensive item on the shelf is badged 58%. Two pairs of designs share a single rating pool, and eight of the 24 seated listings publish no rating at all.

AbhiBus is running a Diwali-window bus coupon, and two of its terms decide whether it is worth anything to you. "Offer is valid only for journey dates between 8 October 2026 and 25 October 2026" - that is your travel date, not your booking date. And the headline percentage is the new-user one: "20% off up to Rs. 200 + 20% cashback up to Rs. 200 for new users on their first booking. Existing users get 8% off up to Rs. 200 + 8% cashback up to Rs. 200." We read the offer first-party on 4 October 2026. A Rs. 500 minimum applies, it works once per user, you must be logged in, it cannot be stacked, and government RTC buses are excluded entirely.

Almost every green tea box on Amazon prints its bag count, so the shelf divides cleanly. We read 74 listings on 4 October 2026 and seated 24. The cheapest bag is Rs. 2.00 and the dearest is Rs. 19.63 - 9.8 times apart - and the Rs. 1,049 box with the highest sticker price is only the fourth dearest per bag. All three brands selling the same tea at 25 bags and at 100 charge more per bag for the small box, between 10% and 32% - and one brand inverts it entirely, charging Rs. 5.12 a bag for a 25-bag box and Rs. 8.60 for its own 50-bag twin-pack. Both of those tiles carry the identical 747-rating pool that marks them as one product record. Note before you start: not one of these listings publishes a usable MRP, so no card here shows a discount.

Minimalist's shipping page is short, and three lines in it decide what an order actually costs and when it turns up. "An additional Rs. 70 shipping fee applies for Cash on Delivery orders" - attached to the payment method, with no basket size at which it stops. We read the page first-party on 4 October 2026. The delivery promise is stacked rather than single: dispatch within 48 working hours, then 2 to 10 days with the courier, with metros told to expect the shorter end. The brand serves over 20,000 pin codes and re-checks serviceability after you have paid, refunding prepaid orders within 48 hours if it cancels. Addresses cannot be changed once placed, and a multi-product order may arrive as separate parcels.

Bombay Shaving Company's refund page contradicts itself twice, and both contradictions cost the shopper. It tells you to report a problem "within 2 days of receiving your order" in one section and refuses requests "after 3 business days of order delivery" in another. On cancellation refunds it publishes "3-5 days for the amount to reflect" and, one line earlier, "within 24-48 business days" - roughly five to ten weeks. We read the page first-party on 4 October 2026. There is no change-of-mind return at all: only damaged, defective, expired or wrong items qualify, unused and sealed. Razors, trimmers and foams are excluded by name, a faulty trimmer takes about 25 days, and a cancelled cash-on-delivery order does not get its COD fee back.

Plum's return policy is the most generous in Indian direct-to-consumer beauty and the least generous about what it pays. "If you are dissatisfied for any reason, we have a simple, 'no fuss' return policy in place" - a change-of-mind return on an opened product, where Beardo, Bombay Shaving Company, Dot & Key and Minimalist all refuse one. We read the page first-party on 4 October 2026. The conditions are seven days from receipt, "less than 1/3rd of the product has been used", and the original packing materials. And the payout is not money: "The amount (less shipping & handling charges) will be refunded in the form of equivalent value store gift" voucher. The return starts with an email asking for a convenient time to call.

Perfora publishes three shipping prices and the payment method decides two of them. "Enjoy free delivery on all prepaid orders above Rs. 499"; "Prepaid orders below Rs. 499 will be charged Rs. 50"; "All COD orders will be charged Rs. 65 for shipping." The cash-on-delivery line carries no threshold, so a large basket paid at the door still pays. We read the page first-party on 4 October 2026. Any shortage or damage claim requires an unboxing video and must be reported on the day of delivery - the page states it twice. And cancelling after dispatch, or refusing a COD parcel, is charged "for both to-and-fro at actuals". Dispatch is generally within 48 hours.

Dot & Key's shipping page carries the highest free-delivery bar this site has read in Indian direct-to-consumer beauty. "There are no shipping charges for the orders equal and above the billing value of INR 999. However, if your order is less than INR 999, there will be a shipping charge of INR 50." Beardo and mCaffeine ask Rs. 399, SuperBottoms Rs. 449, Perfora Rs. 499. We read the page first-party on 4 October 2026. Dispatch is "within 2 business days (excluding Sundays and public holidays)", a cash-on-delivery order is "only accepted once you have confirmed your order on the email/ mobile", and a multi-item order "may or may not" ship together. There is no international shipping.

Room spray is sold by the can, so the only way to compare the shelf is to divide by the volume each title states. We read 87 Amazon listings on 4 October 2026 and seated the 21 that are actually room sprays with a stated fill. One brand's 180 ml can sells here at Rs. 97, Rs. 98, Rs. 136 and Rs. 139 depending only on the fragrance - a 43% spread - and the two cheapest share a single pool of 20,661 ratings while the two dearest have 35 and 99 of their own. Per millilitre the whole shelf spans just 2.4x, from Rs. 0.41 to Rs. 1.00. Eighteen of the 20 listings publish no MRP at all, so only two cards here carry a discount badge.

Most price pages read a marketplace, where an inflated list price belongs to whichever third-party seller typed it. hp.com is HP selling HP, so both numbers on every tile are set by the same company - which makes this split unusually clean. We read 24 products on 3 October 2026 and divided each stated MRP by its price. Inkjet and large-format printers state 1.24x to 1.50x and show 19-34% badges. LaserJets, on the same page the same day, state 2.29x to 2.58x and show 56-61%. Nothing sits in between. So an OfficeJet at Rs. 26,599 shows 19% off while a cheaper LaserJet at Rs. 21,999 shows 61%. On laptops the badge runs backwards: the cheapest machine here, at Rs. 72,999, carries the deepest discount figure on the whole store. Printers from Rs. 7,499; laptops from Rs. 72,999.

We read Flipkart's own return policy page on 3 October 2026, and the rule that decides most disputes is not about categories at all. For mobiles from Apple, Google, Motorola, Infinix, Redmi, MI, Vivo, POCO, Realme and Samsung — and for electronics and large appliances from a list running from Bose and Canon to LG, Sony, Whirlpool and Voltas — the only action the policy allows is '7 Days Service Center Replacement/Repair only'. Buy an off-list brand in the same category and you get a marketplace replacement instead. Three more clauses most buyers miss: 'only one replacement shall be provided' appears three times; accepting an open box delivery ends every return right except a manufacturing defect; and the pick-up executive is instructed to refuse a return if the MRP tag has been detached or a phone is still locked. Everything below is quoted verbatim.

Amazon's mobile store has switched to Deals Revealed five days before the Great Indian Festival 2026 opens on October 8. Its tiles now print a festival price for 37 phones, from the Zeno 100 Lite at Rs. 7,199 to the Galaxy Z Fold7 from Rs. 1,29,999; two realme Narzo prices are still masked. We copied every figure on October 3, 2026 and checked each against the price on the product page the same day. The headline numbers: iPhone 16 at Rs. 71,999 including all offers against Rs. 86,900 today, Galaxy S25 Ultra from Rs. 84,999 against Rs. 99,999, and Xiaomi 17 at Rs. 59,999 against Rs. 89,999. Most festival prices carry an asterisk, meaning a bank, credit card EMI or coupon offer is already counted. This page has the full 39-row price list and 20 picks rated 4.0 or better where waiting actually saves money.

Croma's FAQ contains one paragraph that costs money and almost nobody reads it before financing a purchase. 'In case of refund, though the amount is credited back to the customer's card, the EMI closure will happen only after customer communicates the same to the bank... if customer fails to communicate the same to bank, the interest amount that bank will keep levying will be borne by the customer. For closure or any other charges, if any which are levied by the customer's bank, will be borne by the customer.' The refund landing on your card does not end the instalment plan — and Croma is clear that eligibility, tenure and refund rules are 'solely on the internal discretion' of your bank. Two more rules worth knowing: keep a bundled free gift after a return and its value is deducted, and an online order cannot be returned at a Croma store at all.

We read Flipkart's own payments and shipping pages on 3 October 2026. The sentence worth knowing before you finance anything: 'There is NO processing fee charged for availing Flipkart's EMI payment option. On return or exchange, interest charged by the bank till that time will not be refunded by Flipkart.' And the card is debited in full 'the day of the transaction', so the interest clock starts immediately. On cash: COD is capped at Rs. 50,000, is 'strictly a cash-only payment method' in Indian Rupees, cannot be paid with gift cards or store credit, and can vanish well below the cap because 'delivery partners have limits on the cash amount payable on delivery'. Plus the one carve-out in 'no hidden charges': delivery fees are per-seller, and the only published figure — Rs. 50, waived above Rs. 500 — belongs to a single named seller.

We read Myntra's lehenga and dupatta shelves together on 3 October 2026 - 66 listings - because the interesting number only appears when you do. The dearest standalone dupatta here is Rs. 672. The cheapest complete lehenga set - skirt, blouse and dupatta - is Rs. 999. Rs. 327 separates one piece of cloth from three, and nothing on either listing page tells you so. Every lehenga these pages returned is under Rs. 2,000, while stated MRPs run to Rs. 6,999. On badges, one brand accounts for five seated listings and states multiples of 1.89x, 4.63x, 6.98x, 8.35x and 10.03x in the same week - so we print the multiple on every card instead. Eleven of the 22 publish no rating at all, and half the lehengas are semi-stitched, which means a tailor's bill on top.