We read both home shelves the same morning, 2 September 2026, logged out and unfiltered: 288 AJIO listings across bedsheets, bed covers, curtains and cushion covers, and 144 Myntra listings across the same four aisles. On price they are almost interchangeable — AJIO's median is Rs. 734 at 60 per cent off, Myntra's Rs. 789 at 64, and 22 per cent of each shelf sells under Rs. 500. The separation is evidence, not money: Myntra shows a customer rating on 103 of its 144 listings with 36 above a thousand ratings, and AJIO shows one on none of its 288. Aisle by aisle AJIO is cheaper on curtains (Rs. 639 against Rs. 933) and bed covers (Rs. 884 against Rs. 1,299). Twelve brands sell on both, and within them it splits: KLOTTHE's median is Rs. 473 on Myntra against Rs. 1,005 on AJIO, while Saral Home is cheaper on AJIO.

Re-read from Hostinger's own India plan page on 2 September 2026: shared hosting from Rs. 69 a month on the 48-month term, shown as 83 per cent off, unchanged since our 21 August read. The Monsoon Sale branding is long gone, while Premium and Unlimited have risen from Rs. 139 and Rs. 199 to Rs. 149 and Rs. 249. We put the number the page buries next to the headline: the renewal rate. Single costs Rs. 3,312 for four years and renews at Rs. 289 a month, so the next four cost Rs. 13,872 - a 4.2x step-up, the steepest on the page. Premium, Unlimited and Cloud Startup renew at Rs. 449, Rs. 649 and Rs. 1,599 for step-ups of 3.0x, 2.6x and 2.7x. The badges are computed against a regular price that is simply the crossed-out monthly rate times 48 months; measured against each plan's own renewal rate the real reductions are 62 to 76 per cent. Plan-by-plan storage, backup cadence, website limits and email allowances, plus five ways to pay less. Hostinger publishes no end date.

Forty-seven shampoo, face serum and sunscreen listings read from nykaa.com's own search results on 2 September 2026, with every price, MRP, discount, rating and rating count as Nykaa displays them. The aisle decides the discount: shampoo runs a 20 per cent median and holds the four deepest badges on the page — TRESemmé and Himalaya at 40 per cent, Dove and L'Oreal Paris at 35 — while face serums and sunscreens sit at a 10 and 11 per cent median and the biggest Indian skincare labels hold at 5. Sunscreen is a Rs. 330 to Rs. 500 category, with four Dot & Key bottles at exactly Rs. 387; serums span Rs. 195 to Rs. 3,591. And the ratings cannot separate any of it: the eight most-rated listings carry 1,32,000 to 5,40,000 ratings each and every one scores 4.3 or 4.4.

Udemy's Personal Plan page, read on 2 September 2026, prices the subscription at “Starting at Rs. 500.00 per month, cancel anytime”, billed monthly or annually, with the annual figure not shown to a logged-out visitor. On the same page Udemy compares it against buying courses one at a time at “Rs. 599.00 – Rs. 7,900.00” — but that is list pricing, and the storefront rarely sells at list. The development shelf on the same day was running a “Courses from Rs. 449.00” banner, with the biggest bootcamps — the Python Pro Bootcamp, the Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp, Machine Learning A-Z — at Rs. 449 to Rs. 609, marked 86 per cent off. Twelve months of the plan is about Rs. 6,000, or roughly a dozen of those courses bought outright with lifetime access. The plan also reaches 28,000 courses out of a catalogue Udemy advertises as 250,000-plus.

Croma's television listings on 1 September 2026 ran from Rs. 9,990 to Rs. 81,990 across 26 sets, and the size bands overlap so heavily that shopping by diagonal gets the wrong answer. The cheapest 55-inch on the shelf, Croma's own 4-Star QLED at Rs. 32,990, costs Rs. 15,000 less than the dearest 43-inch, a Sony BRAVIA 2 II at Rs. 47,990. Inside the 43-inch band alone the spread is 2.4 times — Rs. 19,990 for a Croma Full HD LED up to that Rs. 47,990 Sony — and what separates them is the panel line printed on the listing, not the size. Croma's own label holds 12 of the 26 listings and is the price floor in three of four size bands; LG discounts hardest among the national brands at a 35 per cent median. Review counts are in single figures on most listings, so they will not rank these sets for you.

We read both retailers' tablet listings on 1 September 2026 — 16 on Croma, 14 on Reliance Digital — and the difference is which shelf exists at your budget rather than who undercuts whom. Reliance Digital starts at Rs. 11,999 and puts six of its fourteen listings under Rs. 20,000; Croma starts at Rs. 19,999 and puts exactly one there, with a median listing of Rs. 45,499 against Reliance Digital's Rs. 21,249. The two stores share five brands but almost no identical variants, so a straight price table is not possible honestly: the nearest match, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Lite, is Rs. 46,999 at Croma with 5G and Rs. 41,999 at Reliance Digital without it. At the top end Croma lists the A16 iPad at Rs. 47,900 while Reliance Digital lists the iPad Air M3 from Rs. 55,691 — different machines, not different prices for one.

Amazon India's fan listings held 46 unique products on 1 September 2026, from Rs. 599 to Rs. 4,099, and splitting them by motor type gives the number that actually decides the purchase. A BLDC 1200mm ceiling fan runs a median of Rs. 2,999; a conventional induction 1200mm fan runs Rs. 1,712. That is a premium of about Rs. 1,287, roughly 75 per cent, bought for a stated 28–35 W draw against roughly 70 W. The discount badges run the other way to the price: table fans, the cheapest group, carry the deepest median cut at 48 per cent, and BLDC fans the shallowest at 41. And one fan makes the case against reading badges at all — the atomberg Renesa Enzel appears twice at the same Rs. 3,849 price with two different stated MRPs, showing 25 per cent off on one listing and 32 per cent on the other, with the identical 48,409 ratings on both.

Amazon India's cookware listings held 89 unique products on 1 September 2026, from Rs. 314 to Rs. 12,999 — and 20 of them state an MRP that cannot be a list price. Sixteen are the same pattern: the stated MRP is the selling price divided by the number of pieces the title says the set contains. A Bergner “4 Pcs” set sells at Rs. 2,196 against a stated Rs. 549, exactly a quarter; a Vinod “25-Piece” box sells at Rs. 7,399 against Rs. 295. The other four state exactly 100 times the price and display as 99 per cent off. Across the 69 listings with a usable MRP the median is 29 per cent off, a flat shelf by Amazon standards. Hawkins discounts 5 to 7 per cent and holds the largest rating pool here — 39,751 on one cooker — while Pigeon runs 5 per cent on some listings and 54 per cent on others.

Hostinger's refund policy, revision-stamped 30 June 2026 and read on 1 September 2026, opens with a clean 30-day money-back rule and then attaches conditions to almost everything an Indian buyer would purchase. The most important one is buried in a list of roughly sixty country registries that “DO NOT permit refunds upon cancellation”: .in, .co.in and .in.net are all on it, alongside .uk, .de, .fr, .eu, .jp, .au, .us and .ae. Where a domain refund is possible at all the window is 96 hours, not 30 days, and a second condition requires that 24 hours have passed since your last domain refund. Domain renewals are never refundable, a successful transfer is never refundable, VPS refunds carry a 180-day cooldown, Hostinger Horizons requires fewer than 30 AI prompts used, and the first payment after a free trial sits outside the standard terms entirely. Privacy Protection, the SEO Toolkit, Google Workspace Email and all paid support services are on the flat no-refund list.

AJIO's saree, co-ord set, women's heels and women's handbag listings held 163 distinct items on 1 September 2026, priced from Rs. 222 to Rs. 4,499 — and 95 of them cost under Rs. 800, with 23 under Rs. 500. Three of the four categories have a median selling price below Rs. 810; only handbags sit higher, at Rs. 1,279, with the shallowest median discount at 60 per cent. The percentages on this shelf are close to useless for choosing: 95 listings are at 70 per cent off or more, and the MRPs they are calculated from repeat across unrelated products. Thirteen listings — handbags and heels from five brands — share an MRP of exactly Rs. 1,999 while selling between Rs. 460 and Rs. 1,279, ten share Rs. 4,999 across three categories, and eight pairs of heels sharing a Rs. 2,995 MRP all sell at exactly Rs. 779.

Myntra's watch pages carried 80 distinct listings on 1 September 2026, priced from Rs. 425 to Rs. 19,995 — and 36 of them, 45 per cent, showed no discount at all. Those 36 are not spread evenly. Casio accounts for 27 of them, with only one of its 28 listings discounted; the Titan group adds nine more across Fastrack, Sonata and Titan. Every discount above 60 per cent on the same shelf belongs to a house or marketplace label: Mast & Harbour runs a 74 per cent median across 14 listings, Roadster 82 per cent, JOKER & WITCH 80, WROGN 78 — all calculated against brand-set MRPs we cannot verify. The rupee prices are what survive: Rs. 645 to Rs. 792 for those house labels, Rs. 995 for a full-price Fastrack, Rs. 1,895 for the most-reviewed watch on the shelf, a Casio Vintage with 25,448 ratings.

We read both retailers' saree shelves on 1 September 2026 — 41 listings on AJIO, 42 on Nykaa Fashion — and they turn out to be two different tiers of the same garment. AJIO's median saree costs Rs. 805 against Nykaa Fashion's Rs. 1,720, and 36 of AJIO's 41 listings sit below Nykaa Fashion's median price. Under Rs. 800, AJIO had 20 sarees and Nykaa Fashion had two; above Rs. 2,000 the position reverses, with fourteen Nykaa Fashion listings against one. AJIO's floor is Rs. 222 for a printed saree; Nykaa Fashion reaches Rs. 4,636. The brands do not overlap at all, so no same-saree comparison is possible. AJIO discounts everything between 33 and 84 per cent, which makes the badge useless for choosing; Nykaa Fashion's range reaches down to 5 per cent, the only place on either shelf where the MRP looks like it is doing real work. Neither site published a single customer rating.

Myntra's four kurta listing pages carried 131 distinct listings on 1 September 2026, priced from Rs. 364 to Rs. 1,992 — and exactly one of them sat at its MRP. The other 130 were discounted, with a median of 70 per cent off and 38 listings at 75 per cent or more. When a shelf is uniformly 70 per cent off, the percentage stops describing a sale. Counting the MRPs shows why: there are 102 distinct selling prices across those 131 listings but only 49 distinct stated MRPs, and Rs. 2,199 appears as the reference price on 13 separate listings from different sellers, whose actual prices range from Rs. 435 to Rs. 704. The numbers that do separate listings are the rupee price — 96 under Rs. 1,000, 21 under Rs. 500 — and the rating count, where 52 listings carry 1,000 or more and 33 carry none at all.

We read all 240 answers on Myntra's FAQ on 1 September 2026, and the single most-searched fact about Myntra returns is not in any of them. Five separate answers reach the point where a number belongs and say “within the specified return/exchange period (check product details page for the same)” instead. Myntra's own listing strings say “Easy 14 days returns”, with 10 days on Fine Jewellery and a “Return and Exchange not available” variant, so the window belongs to the item, not to the platform. What the FAQ does commit to is refund speed, and it depends entirely on how you paid: 2 hours to Myntra Credit, 1 day for UPI, wallets and NEFT, 5 days for cards, 7 for netbanking — and 7 to 10 days if you cancelled the order rather than returned the item. Instant Refunds excludes self-ship returns and some PIN codes, the COD fee and donations are never refunded, and a declined return means no refund at all.

We read Crocs listings on both sites on 1 September 2026 — 68 on crocs.in, 50 on Myntra — and matched them only where the model, the silhouette and the MRP all agreed. On clogs there is nothing to choose between the two: the Bayaband Clog is Rs. 3,597 on both at 40 per cent off Rs. 5,995, the Baya Clog Rs. 3,497 on both, the Baya Platform Rs. 4,197 and the Baya Marbled Rs. 3,847. Every difference we found was on a sandal, and they run in both directions: crocs.in is Rs. 1,198 cheaper on the Miami Toe Loop, which Myntra lists at full MRP, and Rs. 949 cheaper on the Brooklyn Low; Myntra is Rs. 600 cheaper on the unisex Baya Sandal and holds the cheapest pair on either shelf at Rs. 1,347. Myntra also publishes rating counts up to 33,005 on the Bayaband line; crocs.in returned none.