About me

I started writing down prices after I paid full price for a phone and watched it drop by $60 six weeks later. It was a small amount of money, but it bothered me enough to open a spreadsheet. A few months later I had forty phones, earbuds and chargers in it, and a friend asked if she could see it before she bought a phone.

Now I write one letter every Thursday from a desk by the window in my flat in Lahore. I also film short reviews: battery tests, camera comparisons and a power meter on a charger, so the letter can say what I measured as well as what the price did. Each letter takes one gadget that a reader has asked about, shows its price for the last year and ends with a verdict: buy now, wait or skip, and why. I write the lowest price I find and I never move the line I set. Prices are in US dollars, so a reader anywhere can follow them.

What I sell are the sheets I use myself: a price log, a checklist, a calendar of launches, a planner for sale season and a sheet for charger tests, plus two video courses, one on reading a price history and one on buying a refurbished phone safely. I do not take gadgets from makers and I do not earn from shop links. The letter is free.