Not Selling Even at Half Price: 22,650 Items, and Only 27 Left in a Day
The interesting number today isn't that prices stopped. It's that the stock isn't moving either, the 50%+ pile shrank by 27 items in a full day.
Correction, 23 August 2026
The stock figures in this story were wrong, and the fault was ours. Our scraper only updates what it can see on a brand's collection pages. When an item sells out and drops off those pages, the row is never revisited and stays flagged in stock. By 22 August that had reached 100,103 rows, 46,164 of which had not been seen in over ninety days.
- Discounted items: 61,238 → 33,515
- Average genuine discount: 41% → 38%
- At 50% off or deeper: 22,856 → 9,465
This story's central claim does not survive. We wrote that 22,650 items sat at half price and only 27 moved in a day, and read that as the discount having stopped working. The real explanation is different: much of that pile had already gone from the brands' own sites. It was not failing to sell, it was not there.
Anything built on price history, the frozen-price days, the Limelight increases, the new-arrival counts, rests on real recorded data and still stands. How we work.
21 August 2026
The number worth attention today is not the one about prices. It is this one:
Yesterday we reported 22,677 items sitting at 50% off or deeper. Today the figure is 22,650. Across an entire day, 27 items left the shelf.
Why that matters: it means the discount has stopped working. If 22,650 items are sitting at half price and 27 move in a day, the problem is no longer the price, it is the buyer. Everyone who wanted to buy during Azadi has bought, and a 50%-off sticker is no longer moving anyone.
What it suggests next: one of two things. Either the brands cut deeper on this leftover stock in September, because the warehouse has to clear before the new season lands. Or it quietly becomes a permanent sale and sits there for months, which is what usually happens.
We'll keep measuring. If that 22,650 genuinely starts falling in the first week of September, the brands have blinked, and that will be the real moment to buy.
Live board: trendcompare.pk/sale
Data: TrendCompare 22-brand hourly tracker. Discount figures exclude inflated "was" prices (anchor ≤ 3× current). Full methodology.
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