The biggest blind-buy tax this week is on a dishwasher: buy the typical listing instead of the cheapest and you hand over £87 for nothing. Across all 8 products we checked, the gaps add up to £395.
Check your own Blind-Buy Tax →| # | Product | Cheapest | Typical | You overpay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dishwasher | £160 | £247 | £87 |
| 2 | mattress | £89 | £145 | £56 |
| 3 | coffee machine | £25 | £80 | £55 |
| 4 | tablet | £35 | £90 | £55 |
| 5 | robot vacuum | £70 | £120 | £50 |
| 6 | espresso machine | £55 | £90 | £35 |
| 7 | 4K TV | £209 | £240 | £31 |
| 8 | wireless earbuds | £18 | £45 | £27 |
For each product we pull the live UK listings we track, sort them by price, and compare the cheapest available (the 20th-percentile price, so a single freak listing can't skew it) against the typical price (the middle-of-the-range 55th percentile). The difference is the "overpay": what someone hands over by buying the first thing they see instead of the cheapest. It is the real spread in live data, not an invented figure, and it moves as prices do.
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GiftWit is an independent UK price-comparison site. We show real live prices, the price before, and the honest saving, with no inflated "was" prices, no fake timers. Data on this page refreshes roughly every six hours. Reproduce it freely with a link back to giftwit.co.uk/report .
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