Most deal sites show you a percentage off an MRP that the seller can set to anything. DozoDeal scores the deal instead of trusting the sticker. Every deal gets a single number from 0 to 100, and you can open any deal to see the exact points each signal contributed.
The eight signals
The score is a weighted blend. The heaviest signals are the ones a seller cannot fake — how today's price compares to the product's own real price history.
- Discount depth (25%) — how far below MRP / list price the deal is, capped so a fake ₹99,999 MRP can't run away with the score.
- Vs all-time low (22%) — how close today's price is to the lowest we have ever recorded. A genuine all-time low scores full marks.
- Vs usual price (13%) — savings against the median price we've seen, i.e. the true street price rather than the inflated MRP.
- Community heat (15%) — up/down votes and click momentum, with diminishing returns so a handful of votes can't game it.
- Coupon / offer (6%) — a working, stackable coupon lifts the score.
- Product rating (7%) — the star rating, tempered by how many reviews back it.
- Urgency (5%) — lightning deals, low stock and imminent expiry.
- Freshness (7%) — newer deals score higher and decay smoothly over time.
What the bands mean
- 90–100 · Steal — at or near an all-time low with strong signals across the board.
- 80–89 · Hot — a genuinely strong price worth acting on.
- 65–79 · Great — a solid discount, better than the usual price.
- 50–64 · Good — a fair deal; worth a look.
- Below 50 · Fair — modest savings.
Where the price data comes from
We record a price observation every time a deal's price is checked and build a per-product history from it. That history powers the chart on each deal page and the "all-time low" and "usual price" signals. We read the structured product data that stores publish on their own pages, honour their robots rules, and clearly flag anything an editor entered by hand.
The score is recalculated whenever a price changes, a vote lands, or time passes — so a deal that was hot last week won't still be headlining today.