Price history: what products cost in Tunisia between 2012 and 2015

How to read these records

Each promotion published on acombien.com showed a product name, a reference price, a promotional price, a validity period and the list of retailers offering it. We have copied those details exactly as they appear in the captures, without correcting or completing them. Where the archive does not show what a price included, we say so. Amounts are in Tunisian dinars (DT); the dinar is divided into 1,000 millimes, which is why prices were shown with three decimal places, such as 1,349.000 DT.

Two caveats apply. First, a promotion reflects the price a retailer wanted to highlight, not necessarily the average market price. Second, these figures predate several years of inflation and movement in the dinar, so comparing them directly with today's prices would be meaningless. Their value lies elsewhere: in the gaps between sellers and in how offers were put together, two themes that run through our guide to buying a smartphone in Tunisia.

The promotions we recovered, 2013–2015

* Operator price: the archive did not keep the terms of the offer (subscription, commitment or prepaid bundle). Do not compare it directly with the price of a device sold on its own.

What these figures tell us

The same price everywhere is not a negotiated price

In January 2014, the Sunny 32-inch TV was listed at 599 DT by eleven retailers, several of them stores in the same chain. A price that is identical at every seller usually means it was set by the supplier, or by a chain for its whole network. In that case the comparison shifts to everything else: delivery time, installation, warranty length and payment options.

An operator price is a different product

On the same day, the Galaxy S4 appears at 1,349 DT from a retailer and at 299 DT from an operator. The BlackBerry Z10 drops from 199 to 99 DT at Tunisie Telecom. These gaps do not measure how generous a seller is: operator prices usually depend on a plan whose terms were not archived. The right calculation adds the handset price to the cost of the plan over the whole commitment period.

A promotion can last a very long time

Several offers show a validity period of a year, and the one on the Samsung 46-inch TV runs for twenty-one months, from February 2014 to November 2015. A few weeks apart, the Hayet Leather bag shows a reference price of 150 DT and then 130 DT for the same promotion, which moves the promo price from 75 to 65 DT. A permanent discount is closer to a normal price than to a bargain, one of the habits explained in our guide to buying online in Tunisia.

The operator's name changes, the offer stays

In January 2014, mobile offers carry the Tunisiana name. By September 2014, the same section shows Ooredoo, the name the operator adopted that year. The MediaPad 7 tablet drops there from 399 DT in September 2014 to 369 DT in November, while independent retailers stay at 469 DT.

Number of offers tracked, capture by capture

The catalogue grew two and a half times between December 2012 and May 2013, from 7,923 to 19,575 offers; the available captures do not show exactly which retailers caused the jump. It then held at around 18,000 to 20,000 offers until 2015. The list of retailers that featured on acombien.com shows the sellers behind these numbers.

Sources

All the data on this page comes from captures of the acombien.com home page preserved by the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), consulted in November 2026. The captures used date from April, September and December 2012; May and December 2013; January, June, September and November 2014; and February and May 2015.