Buying guide
How Farq compares prices — and what it deliberately leaves out
Updated 17 September 2026 · 2 min read
A price comparison is only useful if every price on it is real, current, and for the same product. This is how Farq gets there, and why you will sometimes see fewer offers than you expected.
Where prices come from
Every price on Farq is read from the retailer's own product page or catalog — the same data that appears at their checkout. Retailer catalogs are synced nightly, and product pages are re-checked when shoppers view them. A price that hasn't been confirmed within the last week is never ranked.
We track a fixed list of Bahrain retailers, from the large chains (Sharaf DG, eXtra, Jarir, Lulu, Virgin Megastore) to the specialists (Games Corner, Geekay, Advanti, Master Productions, Caza Souq, Computia, iMachines, iWorld, Sony World) and the telco shops. Marketplaces and overseas sellers are not included.
What we exclude on purpose
An offer only appears in a comparison if it is for the same product and configuration (a 256GB phone is never compared with a 128GB one), is priced in Bahraini dinars, is not marked out of stock, and was confirmed recently. Prices that are implausibly far from every other retailer's are held back too — they are usually a listing error rather than a bargain.
Some retailer pages don't expose a price we can read. Those are listed separately under "Also listed at", never ranked, and only when the page is clearly for the same product.
Excluded offers are still stored, so if a retailer fixes a listing it reappears automatically. This is why a product can show one offer today and three tomorrow.
Which pages we publish
Farq's catalog holds thousands of products, but most are sold by only one Bahrain retailer at any time. Those pages stay available for shoppers and price alerts, but we only present a page as a price comparison — and only ask search engines to index it — once at least two retailers sell the same product at a verified price.
How to read a page
The green card is the lowest verified price right now. The list below it shows every verified offer, cheapest first, each linking to the retailer's page. The price analysis summarises the spread between retailers and how today's price compares with the history we've recorded, and the chart shows the daily low over time. If you want to wait, set an alert and we will email you once when the price moves.
Farq is independent: retailers do not pay for placement, and verified prices are always ordered cheapest first.