A 76% Badge Saves Rs. 3,800. A 30% Badge Saves Rs. 81,382.

Seventy-six per cent off a stated Rs. 4,999 is the deepest badge in our 118-listing pull, and what it saves you is Rs. 3,800. Further down this page, a laptop with a badge less than half that size saves Rs. 81,382. The headphones are not a bad buy - Rs. 1,199 for over-ear wireless with a claimed 50-hour battery is cheap by any measure - but the number in red is describing the sticker, not the saving. Zebronics has four listings here, all between 71 and 76 per cent off, which is a brand-level pricing pattern rather than a sale.

• Price: Rs. 1,199 (stated MRP Rs. 4,999)
• Key detail: the joint-deepest badge in the pull, worth Rs. 3,800 in rupees
• Discount: 76% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 3,800
• Rupees off: Rs. 3,800
• Role: Biggest badge, small money
• Buying logic: Genuinely cheap headphones. Judge them at Rs. 1,199, not at 76 per cent.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Two thousand one hundred and ninety-nine rupees for an AMOLED calling smartwatch, at the same 76 per cent as the Zebronics headphones - but off a Rs. 8,999 sticker rather than a Rs. 4,999 one, so the rupee figure is Rs. 6,800 rather than Rs. 3,800. Two listings, one percentage, a Rs. 3,000 difference in what is actually taken off. That is the whole argument of this page in two adjacent seats, and it is why we print both numbers on every tile.

• Price: Rs. 2,199 (stated MRP Rs. 8,999)
• Key detail: a 76 per cent badge, and the largest rupee saving in the sub-Rs. 3,000 chapter
• Discount: 76% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 6,800
• Rupees off: Rs. 6,800
• Role: Joint-deepest badge
• Buying logic: A sound Rs. 2,199 watch. Note it shares a badge with a listing saving Rs. 3,000 less.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Fourteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees for over-ear headphones claiming active noise cancellation, against Rs. 39,990 for the Sony WH-1000XM6 in the final chapter. Both listings use the same two words, and they do not describe the same thing: cheap ANC typically attenuates a narrow band of low-frequency noise and does little with voices, while the Sony's system is the reason it costs twenty-six times as much. What Rs. 1,499 genuinely buys is a wireless over-ear pair with some rumble reduction, and at that price it is fair value.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 5,999)
• Key detail: ANC claimed at Rs. 1,499 - a tenth of what the Sony below costs
• Discount: 75% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 4,500
• Rupees off: Rs. 4,500
• Role: Cheapest ANC on the page
• Buying logic: Fine at Rs. 1,499. Do not expect the ANC to behave like a flagship's.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

A stated MRP of Rs. 7,995 on a watch selling at Rs. 1,999 produces a 75 per cent badge and a Rs. 5,996 saving on paper. Fastrack has four listings in our pull at 68 to 75 per cent off, so this is how the brand lists rather than a moment. As a watch, an AMOLED display with 25-plus sports modes at Rs. 1,999 is a reasonable object; as a discount, a sticker four times the price is a reference number nobody could have charged.

• Price: Rs. 1,999 (stated MRP Rs. 7,995)
• Key detail: a Rs. 7,995 sticker on a Rs. 1,999 watch - four times the selling price
• Discount: 75% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 5,996
• Rupees off: Rs. 5,996
• Role: Highest sticker under Rs. 2,000
• Buying logic: Buy it as a Rs. 1,999 watch. The Rs. 7,995 has no bearing on anything.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Forty-four per cent sounds respectable and takes Rs. 1,091 off the price, which is the smallest rupee saving in our entire pull. Set against the Rs. 108,991 saved by a laptop three chapters down, it is a thousandth of the money. The listing itself is straightforward - Rs. 1,399 for wireless on-ear headphones from a brand with wide service coverage - and at that price it does not need a badge to justify itself.

• Price: Rs. 1,399 (stated MRP Rs. 2,490)
• Key detail: Rs. 1,091 - the smallest rupee saving among all 118 listings
• Discount: 44% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 1,091
• Rupees off: Rs. 1,091
• Role: Smallest saving in the pull
• Buying logic: A cheap, sensible pair. The badge is the least meaningful thing on the tile.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Fifteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees for a smartwatch with a 1.91-inch display, which is the largest in this chapter and the specification most people actually notice day to day. Vijay Sales lists this watch three times in our pull at the identical price and badge, which is a colourway duplication rather than three different deals. Sixty-eight per cent off Rs. 4,995 saves Rs. 3,396 on paper.

• Price: Rs. 1,599 (stated MRP Rs. 4,995)
• Key detail: a 1.91-inch display at Rs. 1,599 - the largest screen in the cheap chapter
• Discount: 68% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 3,396
• Rupees off: Rs. 3,396
• Role: Best display claim under Rs. 2,000
• Buying logic: The most usable screen under Rs. 2,000 here. Colour duplicates are listed separately.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Nine thousand two hundred and ninety-nine rupees for Sony's mid-range noise-cancelling over-ears. The badge is 38 per cent - half the size of the Zebronics listing at the top of this page - and the rupee saving is Rs. 5,691, which is Rs. 1,891 more. This is the crossover point of the page: from here on, the percentages shrink and the money grows. Vijay Sales lists the same model twice at Rs. 9,299 and Rs. 9,499, so check both before ordering.

• Price: Rs. 9,299 (stated MRP Rs. 14,990)
• Key detail: Rs. 5,691 saved on a 38 per cent badge - more money than any 75 per cent listing above
• Discount: 38% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 5,691
• Rupees off: Rs. 5,691
• Role: Best-known ANC under Rs. 10,000
• Buying logic: The value ANC pick. Check both listings of this model - they differ by Rs. 200.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Five thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine rupees for JBL's mid-tier ANC over-ears, at 42 per cent off a Rs. 9,999 sticker. The saving is Rs. 4,200 - more, in rupees, than the 76 per cent Zebronics listing at the top of the page delivers. If you want noise cancellation that works on aircraft and open-plan offices rather than in the specification sheet, this is roughly where the category starts, and it is Rs. 34,000 below where it ends.

• Price: Rs. 5,799 (stated MRP Rs. 9,999)
• Key detail: Rs. 5,799 - the cheapest listing here from a major audio brand claiming ANC
• Discount: 42% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 4,200
• Rupees off: Rs. 4,200
• Role: Cheapest brand-name ANC
• Buying logic: The sensible floor for ANC that actually works. Below this you are buying the phrase.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 26,999, which means the claimed saving of Rs. 13,500 is one rupee more than the price you pay. A sticker set at exactly double the selling price is a round-number choice rather than a market price, and we would read it that way. As a phone, this is a 4G entry-level device with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, which in 2026 is a phone for calls and messages rather than a general-purpose one.

• Price: Rs. 13,499 (stated MRP Rs. 26,999)
• Key detail: a stated MRP of Rs. 26,999 - exactly twice the selling price
• Discount: 50% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 13,500
• Rupees off: Rs. 13,500
• Role: Deepest phone badge
• Buying logic: A basic 4G phone at Rs. 13,499. The 50% is arithmetic, not history.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Fourteen thousand rupees less one, off the same Rs. 26,999 stated MRP that the Redmi in the seat above carries. Two phones from two manufacturers with the same reference price and a Rs. 500 difference in what they actually cost is a reasonable illustration of what a stated MRP is worth as information. Also 4GB and 64GB, also 4G, with a 5,500mAh battery claimed - which at this end of the market is the specification that matters most.

• Price: Rs. 13,999 (stated MRP Rs. 26,999)
• Key detail: the identical Rs. 26,999 sticker as the Redmi, on a different brand's phone
• Discount: 48% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 13,000
• Rupees off: Rs. 13,000
• Role: The same sticker, a different phone
• Buying logic: Compare it with the Redmi beside it. Both are 64GB 4G phones at around Rs. 13,500.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Twenty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees buys 5G, 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage - twice the storage and a generation of connectivity beyond the two phones above, for around Rs. 8,000 more. The badge is 43 per cent and the rupee saving Rs. 16,500, which is larger than the entire selling price of every listing in chapter one combined bar one. Notice how far the percentage has fallen while the money has risen.

• Price: Rs. 21,999 (stated MRP Rs. 38,499)
• Key detail: 6GB and 128GB on 5G at Rs. 21,999, saving Rs. 16,500
• Discount: 43% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 16,500
• Rupees off: Rs. 16,500
• Role: Cheapest 5G with 128GB
• Buying logic: The first phone on this page we would call generally usable for a few years.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Thirty-one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees for 8GB and 128GB on 5G, with the badge down to 38 per cent and the saving up to Rs. 20,000. Put that beside the opening seat of this page: a 76 per cent badge that saves Rs. 3,800, against a 38 per cent badge that saves Rs. 20,000. If you shop this shelf by percentage you will never see this listing, and you will buy the headphones instead.

• Price: Rs. 31,999 (stated MRP Rs. 51,999)
• Key detail: Rs. 20,000 saved on a 38 per cent badge
• Discount: 38% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 20,000
• Rupees off: Rs. 20,000
• Role: Mid-range 5G
• Buying logic: A capable mid-range phone. The badge understates the money by a factor of five.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 79,999. The badge is 38 per cent, identical to the realme in the previous seat, and the saving is Rs. 30,000 against that phone's Rs. 20,000 - because the percentage is applied to a much larger sticker. Two listings, one percentage, Rs. 10,000 of difference. Eight gigabytes of RAM and 256GB of storage put this at the top of the mainstream phone band.

• Price: Rs. 49,999 (stated MRP Rs. 79,999)
• Key detail: Rs. 30,000 saved - the largest rupee saving among the phones
• Discount: 38% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 30,000
• Rupees off: Rs. 30,000
• Role: Biggest phone saving
• Buying logic: The largest phone saving here, hidden behind an ordinary-looking 38 per cent.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Seventy-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 184,990. In rupees this is the largest reduction in our entire pull - Rs. 108,991, or twenty-eight times what the 76 per cent Zebronics listing saves. The badge is 59 per cent, which is smaller than four listings in chapter one. Whether the Rs. 184,990 sticker was ever a real price is a separate question we cannot answer, and a laptop with a 13th-generation Core i5 and 16GB of RAM at Rs. 75,999 should be judged against other Rs. 75,999 laptops rather than against it.

• Price: Rs. 75,999 (stated MRP Rs. 184,990)
• Key detail: Rs. 108,991 saved, twenty-eight times the deepest-badge listing on this page
• Discount: 59% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 108,991
• Rupees off: Rs. 108,991
• Role: Biggest saving in the pull
• Buying logic: Judge it against other Rs. 76,000 laptops, not against a Rs. 184,990 sticker.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

One hundred and twenty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees against Rs. 230,290. Forty-seven per cent looks unremarkable beside the 76 per cent at the top of this page and takes Rs. 107,291 off - twenty-eight times as much money. Gaming laptops are the category where stated MRPs run highest, partly because configurations change quickly and old reference prices persist. Buy on the processor, the graphics chip and the panel refresh rate, all of which the listing states.

• Price: Rs. 122,999 (stated MRP Rs. 230,290)
• Key detail: Rs. 107,291 saved on a 47 per cent badge - less than two-thirds of the top badge here
• Discount: 47% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 107,291
• Rupees off: Rs. 107,291
• Role: Second-biggest saving
• Buying logic: Buy on the GPU and the panel. The badge is the least useful number on the tile.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

One hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees off a stated Rs. 256,816, saving Rs. 89,317 on a 35 per cent badge. Each percentage point here is worth Rs. 2,552; each point on the Zebronics headphones at the top of the page is worth Rs. 50. That ratio - fifty-one to one - is the cleanest way we can express why this page exists. A Core i7 with 24GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD is a serious machine, and its badge would not attract a second glance on a marketplace.

• Price: Rs. 167,499 (stated MRP Rs. 256,816)
• Key detail: Rs. 89,317 saved on a 35 per cent badge - Rs. 2,552 for every point of discount
• Discount: 35% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 89,317
• Rupees off: Rs. 89,317
• Role: Most expensive saving per point
• Buying logic: A large machine at a large price. The 35 per cent is worth Rs. 89,317.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

One hundred and ninety thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 272,381. Thirty per cent is less than half the badge on the Zebronics headphones that open this page, and it removes Rs. 81,382 rather than Rs. 3,800 - twenty-one times the money for a number that looks less than half as good. If you take one thing from this shelf, take this pair of listings: the badge measures the sticker, and only the rupee figure measures the discount.

• Price: Rs. 190,999 (stated MRP Rs. 272,381)
• Key detail: Rs. 81,382 saved on a 30 per cent badge, against Rs. 3,800 on a 76 per cent one
• Discount: 30% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 81,382
• Rupees off: Rs. 81,382
• Role: Smallest badge, huge money
• Buying logic: The page's argument in one listing. Read the rupees, always.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

One hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees against Rs. 177,990. Twenty-nine per cent is the shallowest badge among the laptops we seated, and it takes off Rs. 52,000 - more than the total selling price of every listing in chapter one put together. A convertible two-in-one with a Core Ultra 7 is a specialist machine; the general point stands regardless of whether it suits you.

• Price: Rs. 125,990 (stated MRP Rs. 177,990)
• Key detail: Rs. 52,000 saved on a 29 per cent badge - the shallowest badge in the laptop chapter
• Discount: 29% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 52,000
• Rupees off: Rs. 52,000
• Role: Shallowest laptop badge
• Buying logic: A niche form factor at a serious price. Note the badge is the smallest in the chapter.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety rupees against a Rs. 49,990 sticker. Twenty per cent is a quarter of the deepest badge on this page and saves Rs. 10,000, which is two and a half times as much money. Sony's flagship noise cancellers are the reference point for the category, and comparing them with a Rs. 1,499 pair claiming the same feature is the exercise chapter one warns against. The sticker here is also a real one: this is roughly what these headphones launch at.

• Price: Rs. 39,990 (stated MRP Rs. 49,990)
• Key detail: Rs. 10,000 saved on a 20 per cent badge - two and a half times the top-badge listing
• Discount: 20% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 10,000
• Rupees off: Rs. 10,000
• Role: Flagship audio
• Buying logic: The genuine article at a genuine 20% off. Compare it with the Rs. 1,499 ANC claim above.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Forty-five thousand nine hundred rupees against Rs. 49,900. Eight per cent is almost nothing as a percentage and it removes Rs. 4,000, which is Rs. 200 more than the deepest badge in the entire pull manages. A near-launch price on a current flagship is what a trustworthy sticker looks like: the gap between reference and selling price is small because the reference price is real.

• Price: Rs. 45,900 (stated MRP Rs. 49,900)
• Key detail: an 8 per cent badge, saving Rs. 4,000 - more than the 76 per cent listing on page one
• Discount: 8% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 4,000
• Rupees off: Rs. 4,000
• Role: An 8 per cent badge
• Buying logic: Barely discounted, and the most believable pricing on this page.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings

Twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees against a stated Rs. 29,000. The discount is one rupee. It rounds to zero per cent and it is published as a discount anyway, which is a fitting place to end a page about what these numbers measure. There is nothing wrong with the tablet - an 11-inch 2.5K touch display with a pen included at Rs. 28,999 is a reasonable object - and the listing is, in its way, the most honest one here: the sticker is the price.

• Price: Rs. 28,999 (stated MRP Rs. 29,000)
• Key detail: Rs. 1 off - the smallest discount among all 118 listings
• Discount: 0% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 1
• Rupees off: Rs. 1
• Role: A one-rupee discount
• Buying logic: No discount at all, and no pretence of one. Judge the tablet on Rs. 28,999.
• Rating: Vijay Sales publishes no rating or rating count on these listings