How the Fynds Score works

The Fynds Score tells you whether right now is a good, fair or poor moment to buy a product at its current lowest listed price in the UAE — based only on the prices we have observed for that exact product. It is not a rating of the product, not a prediction, and never sponsored.

What it is based on

Every day we collect the listed price of each product from each UAE store's own product page. That gives a price history per product. The Score compares today's lowest listed price with that history — and only with history from stores whose price for this product we currently show (approved, active). Prices we have chosen not to display never influence a verdict.

Good time to buy — today's price is at or within 2 % of the lowest we have observed, or cheaper than 80 % of tracked days.
Fair price — today's price sits in the middle of the observed range.
Wait — price is high — today's price is higher than 75 % of tracked days.

When we do not show a Score

Fewer than 2 stores list the product — there is nothing to compare.
Less than 30 days of price history, or fewer than 6 distinct observation days — the range is not meaningful yet. The page says "gathering price data" instead.
The verdict has been unstable (changed on more than half of the last 14 days) and we have less than 45 days of history — a verdict that flips daily is not information.
The price has been flat — less than 3 % between the lowest and highest price we observed. A price that never moves carries no timing signal, so "good time to buy" would be an empty claim; we show no Score rather than a confident one built on nothing.

We would rather show no Score than a weak one dressed up as data.

Confidence and coverage — shown on every Score

Each Score carries two things next to the verdict:

Confidence (high / medium / low) — derived from how stable the verdict has been over the last 14 days and how many days of history we hold. We measured our own data before choosing this: the number of stores does not predict a reliable verdict (products with more stores actually change verdict more often, because more stores means more price movement). Stability over time does.
Coverage — how many UAE stores the comparison rests on. This is a fact about the evidence, shown so you can see whether a verdict rests on 2 stores or 8.

What it is not

Not a product review or star rating. We publish no aggregate ratings anywhere on Fynds.
Not what shoppers actually paid — only listed prices we observed.
Not a forecast. "Wait" means the price is high relative to its own history, not a promise it will fall.
Never influenced by affiliate relationships; the same rules run for every store.

Check it yourself

Every number the Score uses — today's lowest price, the observed low and high, the number of days — is shown in the price history on the same product page. If they disagree, tell us via the "Report a price issue" link and we will investigate.