“Shivam, you wanted a hand blender for your soup recipes, right? This one from Braun is available for โน1500 on Amazon Sale” My wife exclaimed in a louder than her usual voice, with a sparkle in her eyes.
I minimized my Instagram app after completing the reel I was in the middle of watching and turned towards her literally a few seconds later.
But by then she had realized her blunder.
“Oh wait, iska price to โน9000 hai, ye inhone EMI upar dikhai hai yaar aur actual price chhota sa niche likha hai” she uttered.
Yes, the โน1500 price point was actually the monthly EMI for a 6 month period!

Price of that hand blender was actually โน9200.
Well, this is a genius trick being employed by leading ecommerce websites these days.
By showing an โน8200 price(EMI) much larger than the actual โน52000 price tag for an iPhone 13 they convince me within a second that I can afford the phone!
Call it neuromarketing or smart UX play or simply deploying psychology to get people to give a second thought to buying an item they don’t need.
Quite an interesting & smart play by Amazon if you ask me.