Electronics prices in Pakistan: reading the range
What is a normal price for a laptop or a TV in Pakistan, and how far off is a bad one?
Written from Dhundo’s own price data. Reviewed 2026-08-08; figures from the 2026-08-08 data snapshot.
Electronics is the category where comparison should pay best and where it is hardest to do correctly. Specifications carry the price - a processor generation, a panel type, an amount of RAM - and two listings that look identical in a title can be a thousand rupees apart for a reason or fifty thousand apart for no reason at all. This guide is built on 5,384 listings Dhundo has classified as electronics from 7 stores.
The band, and why it is so wide
Across a sample of 608 listings the midpoint is Rs 11,500, with eight in ten between Rs 2,750 and Rs 1,05,900. That upper figure is roughly forty times the lower one, which is what a category containing both a USB cable and a gaming laptop looks like when you flatten it into one number.
This is the clearest case in the whole corpus for ignoring a category average and looking at a product instead. The midpoint is a fact about the mix of things people have searched for, not about what any particular device costs, and a guide that told you "electronics cost about the midpoint in Pakistan" would be saying nothing at all.
Why cross-store matching mostly fails here
In this sample, no item appeared in two different stores under a title match tight enough to count. That is a real result and it is worth stating plainly rather than hiding: electronics retailers in Pakistan write long, individual titles stuffed with specification fragments, warranty notes and bundle contents, and two stores selling the identical laptop will describe it in ways that share very few leading words.
The consequence is that automatic cross-store comparison works far better on phones, where a model number and a storage size dominate the title, than on laptops and televisions, where they do not. Dhundo does not paper over that by loosening the match until something appears; a loose match produces a comparison between two different products, which is worse than no comparison.
What to compare instead
Compare the specification, not the name. On a laptop that means processor model and generation, RAM, storage type and size, and screen resolution - five values that together identify a machine far better than a brand and a series.
On a television it is panel size, resolution, panel technology and refresh rate. On a monitor, add response time. These are the fields a store will put in the title if it has them, and their absence is itself information: a listing that will not say which processor generation it contains is usually the older one.
Once you have the specification, search for it directly. Dhundo's search reaches stores the category page has not classified yet, and specification tokens are exactly the kind of query that matches across storefronts even when the marketing names do not.
Warranty is part of the price
An official-warranty unit and a grey-import unit are the same hardware and different products. The price difference between them is the cost of somebody standing behind the device, and it is the single most common explanation for a gap in electronics that looks impossible.
Listings say so inconsistently, so read the title and then the store page. Where two prices are far apart and the specification really does match, warranty status is the first thing to check and it resolves the mystery most of the time.
Open-box, refurbished and used listings sit in the same list
Nothing in a scraped listing marks condition as a field. A refurbished laptop and a sealed one are two rows with two prices and no structured way to tell them apart, so a comparison that puts them side by side is comparing a price against a different product.
The tell is almost always in the title - "open box", "refurb", "used", "A grade", "imported stock" - which is precisely why Dhundo shows the store's own title rather than a tidied-up product name. A cleaned name would read better and would hide the one word that explains the price.
So when a listing sits well below a cluster of others for the same specification, read its title word by word before treating it as the best price. In this category that habit will explain most of the gaps that look too good, and the ones it does not explain are the ones actually worth acting on.
Electronics on Dhundo, in numbers
Computed from stored listings. Snapshot taken 2026-08-08; newest listing in the sample read 2026-06-19.
- Listings classified here
- 5,384
- Stores in the sample
- 7
- Midpoint price
- Rs 11,500over 608 listings
- Eight in ten sit between
- Rs 2,750 and Rs 1,05,900
- Found under the same name in more than one store
- 0 itemsno reliable cross-store match in this sample
Every figure above is recomputed on the Electronics category page each time it is served, so that page is always the fresher of the two.
What this guide cannot tell you
It cannot compare two specific laptops for you. Cross-store title matching produced no reliable pairs in this category, which is a finding about the data rather than a gap in the writing, and pretending otherwise would be the fabrication this project exists to avoid.
It cannot tell you whether a unit is officially imported or carries a local warranty. That lives on the store page and often on the box.
It cannot tell you today's price. These figures were computed from listings last read 2026-06-19, and electronics pricing moves with the exchange rate.
Common questions
- Why does Dhundo show fewer cross-store comparisons for laptops than for phones?
- Because laptop titles do not agree between stores. Matching requires the leading words of two titles to line up, and phones supply a model number and a capacity that do that naturally while laptops supply marketing names and specification fragments in different orders.
- Is the electronics midpoint price a useful number?
- Only as a description of the mix. The category holds cables and gaming laptops in the same set, so the midpoint tells you about what people search for rather than about what a device should cost.
- How often are electronics prices refreshed?
- A listing is re-read when its store is searched, so popular items update frequently and quiet ones can sit for a while. Each product page shows the store beside the price so you can check the source directly.