I Checked 5 Live Amazon Deals Against Their Real Price History
By Karan Mehra · 18 August 2026
I talk about checking price history a lot on this channel — it’s step one on my own deal-verification checklist. So I decided to actually do it, in public, on deals that were live on this site at the time. Not during a big sale event, not cherry-picked — just 5 random Loot Deals that happened to be live when I sat down to check.
For each one, I pulled the real 3-month price history (Amazon’s own Rufus AI gives a genuinely clean breakdown by date) and compared it against what the deal claimed. This is the first in what I’m planning to make a recurring thing — same honesty, different batch of deals each time.
What I checked
| Product | Claimed “before” price | Real price over the last 3 months | Was the “before” price ever real? |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Star Women’s Jeans | ₹3,499 | Ranged ₹317–₹1,439, mostly sitting around ₹1,439 | No — never went above ₹1,439 |
| Kingsway Car Sun Shades | ₹499 | Ranged ₹64–₹179, mostly ₹179 | No — never went above ₹179 |
| Juarez K11 Wireless Mic | ₹1,799 | Ranged ₹99–₹707 | No — never went above ₹707 |
| DOMS Marker Set of 40 | ₹1,250 | Sat at ₹950 almost the entire time (Amazon’s own listed MRP is ₹990) | No — the claimed price exceeds even Amazon’s own MRP |
| JustLatest Ear Wax Cleaner | ₹299 | Basically flat at ₹37–₹39 the entire time | No — this price has barely moved at all |
Every single “before” price was inflated. Not one of the five matched anything that had actually happened in the real 3-month history. That part isn’t surprising if you’ve read the checklist article — MRP inflation is common, that’s exactly why the check exists.
But here’s the part that surprised me
A fake “before” price doesn’t automatically mean the sale price was fake too. I expected these to mostly be the same story — inflate the MRP, dress up an ordinary price as a huge discount. That’s true for one of the five. For the other four, the actual sale price itself was a real, verified low:
- The wireless mic’s ₹99 price genuinely happened — twice, in fact, on two separate days in the last month. Against its real 3-month range (₹99 to ₹707), that’s a legitimately excellent price, even though the “94% off ₹1,799” claim on the badge is fiction.
- The marker set’s ₹150 price was real too — one single day where it dropped from its normal ₹950 to ₹150, before bouncing right back. A genuinely dramatic, real price error, just marketed against a “before” price (₹1,250) that’s higher than the product’s own actual MRP.
- The jeans and sun shades both showed real discounts relative to their actual normal prices (~₹1,439 and ~₹179 respectively) — just not relative to the fictional MRPs used to calculate the flashy percentage.
The one genuine non-deal was the ear wax cleaner. ₹39 isn’t a discount at all — it’s just the price this product has sat at for the entire 3 months I could check. The “₹299 before” is complete fiction with nothing behind it, and the “current” ₹39 isn’t a drop, it’s just Tuesday.
The part that actually changes how I’d use this site
All five deals had already reverted to a higher price by the time I finished checking — same day or the next. The mic went from ₹99 back to ₹651. The marker set went from ₹150 back to ₹950. Every single one.
That’s a small sample and I’m not going to claim every deal on this site (or anywhere) behaves this way — but it’s a real, concrete reminder that “still shows as posted” and “still available at that price” aren’t the same thing. If you’re checking a deal a day or two after it went out, confirm the current price before assuming it still applies.
What this means practically
- The MRP/“before” price on a discount badge is close to meaningless on its own — treat it as marketing, not information. I already knew this in theory; seeing it hit 5 for 5 in one random sample makes the point better than I could just by saying it.
- A real discount can still exist underneath a fake MRP. Four of five sale prices here were genuinely good, verified against real history — the inflated “before” price didn’t make the actual deal fake, just the advertised percentage.
- Check the price the same day you’re planning to buy, not off a post from yesterday. Every single deal here had already moved.
I’ll do this again with a fresh batch of deals — my Telegram channel is the fastest way to know when the next one goes up.
Common questions
Does this mean the deals on this site are usually fake? No — this specific finding is about the “before”/MRP price, which comes from the retailer’s own listing, not something this site invents. Four of five actual sale prices checked out as genuinely real, verified drops. The lesson is about not trusting the percentage badge, not about the deals themselves being untrustworthy.
How did you actually check the price history? Amazon’s own Rufus AI assistant, for this batch — it gave a clean, dated breakdown going back 3 months. Keepa and BuyHatke work too; see my price tracker comparison for how those differ.
Will you do this for every deal you post? No — that’s not realistic at this scale. This is a periodic spot-check on a random sample, not a guarantee covering every single deal. Think of it as an ongoing honesty check on the process, not a per-deal certification.
Is 5 deals a big enough sample to draw conclusions from? Honestly, no — it’s a small, single spot-check, not a statistically rigorous audit. I’m treating the individual findings as real (the prices are real, dated, verifiable), but I wouldn’t generalize “5 for 5 reverted the next day” into “every deal reverts the next day.” That’s exactly why this is planned as a recurring series rather than a one-time claim.