How Electronics Prices and Discounts Shifted Across 6 Years of Online Sales

By shrijeetverma13 · July 9, 2026

From September 2020 to July 2026, average electronics prices climbed 73.5% across major platforms, while discounting strategies varied wildly by product…

The analysis shows how average discount percentages differ across each sale event, presented in a bar chart and data table for easy comparison.

Flipkart offers the lowest overall average Current Price USD compared to other platforms. Two visualizations were generated: one showing average prices broken down by Platform and Product Category, and another comparing overall average prices across platforms.

The analysis explored how item condition relates to current price and discount percentage. Three charts were generated: one showing average price by condition, one showing average discount percentage by condition, and a heatmap comparing average prices across the top 8 models broken down by condition. Together, these visuals reveal how pricing and discounting strategies shift depending on whether an item is new, used, refurbished, or another condition category, and how this pattern differs from model to model.

Higher ratings show a moderate link to smaller discounts (correlation -0.310) and only a weak link to higher prices (0.111). Reviews Count tells a different story: it has a strong positive correlation with discounts (0.615), meaning heavily reviewed products tend to carry bigger discounts, and a weak negative correlation with price (-0.265), suggesting popular products are slightly cheaper. So overall, review count matters more than rating when it comes to discounts, while neither rating nor review count strongly predicts price.

The iPhone 17 128GB retains value best, holding onto 93.31% of its original launch price (dropping from $849 to an average current price of $792.21). Apple products in general hold value fairly well, with the top 5 models all retaining above 87% of their launch price.

The average Current Price USD showed a clear upward trend from September 2020 to July 2026. It started at $417.21 per month and climbed to $723.96, marking a 73.5% increase over the full period. The price peaked at $856.10 in March 2025 and hit its lowest point at $417.21 back in September 2020. Across all 71 months tracked, the long-run average price was $761.01. A line chart with monthly markers visualizes this upward trajectory clearly, and detailed data tables back up these figures.

A comparison table and bar chart were generated breaking down the dataset by Product Category, showing listing counts, average launch and current prices, average discount percentage, and average rating for each category. The chart visually highlights which product category has depreciated the most on average from its launch price to its current price.

We analyzed the Current Price USD values within each Product Category using the standard IQR (1.5x) method to flag unusually high or low prices. The analysis generated data tables detailing outlier counts and the specific Model Name and Platform combinations associated with the most extreme pricing anomalies in both directions.

Looking at sale events and discounts from 2020 to 2026, 2025 stood out as the year with the most sale event records in the dataset. Two charts were created to visualize this: one showing how often sale events occurred each year, and another comparing average discount percentages during sale periods versus non-sale periods over time. These visuals help reveal whether promotional activity has increased and whether discounts have deepened over the years.

Out-of-stock items tend to have noticeably higher discounts than in-stock items. On average, out-of-stock products show a 28.67% discount compared to just 18.42% for in-stock items, suggesting that steep discounting may be linked to inventory depletion. Out-of-stock rates are fairly similar across platforms, with Flipkart slightly higher (16.95%) than Amazon (16.74%). By category, iPads have the highest out-of-stock rate at 19.81%, while Mac products have the lowest at 15.94%. Average pricing also drops as stock decreases, from $819.92 for in-stock items to $694.37 for out-of-stock items, reinforcing that lower-priced, heavily discounted items sell out faster.