Competitive pricing

What the competition actually charges

Every K-beauty suncare, mask, exfoliant, treatment and patch listing across the five Maldivian sellers, captured 30 August 2026 — 432 live prices in rufiyaa, pulled from each store's own product feed rather than from search results.

432Live listings priced
9SKUs sold by two or more sellers
MVR 350Median shelf price
5Sellers swept in full

Head to head on the same product

Cheapest in green, dearest in red. The spread column is how much more the dearest seller charges than the cheapest for the same item.

Productluxeglowmizukilaneve vitalhouselecutespread
MEDICUBE Collagen Night Wrapping Mask45022%
SKIN1004 Madagascar Centella Hyalu-Cica Water-Fit Sun S65%
BIODANCE Biodance Bio-Collagen Real Deep Mask13%
SKIN1004 MADAGASCAR CENTELLA HYALU-CICA WATER-FIT SUN S35029%
ARENCIA Eraser Shot Glycolic Acid Booster40021%
COSRX BHA Blackhead Power Liquid38027%
TOCOBO TOCOBO Cotton Soft Sun Stick SPF503%
COSRX AHA 7 Whitehead Power Liquid2501%
Anua Anua Peach 70 Niacin Serum Mask9536%
What this tells a new entrant

The same product routinely sells for 15–30% more at one Malé seller than another, and the cheapest is usually the same store. That is not a market with a settled price — it is a market where nobody is competing on price systematically, because none of the incumbents buys well enough to make price a weapon. An importer with genuine direct-from-Korea terms can undercut the dearest by a wide margin and still earn more per unit than the cheapest does today.

It also sets the ceiling. The K-beauty sunscreen band is MVR 250–410, clustering 300–355. Anything priced above that band needs a reason a customer can see.

By seller

SellerListingsMedian MVRLowHigh
luxeglow160300251,400
lecute4828840906

luxeglow runs the broadest range and is consistently the cheapest on shared SKUs; mizuki carries the deepest suncare assortment and prices at the top of the band. luxeglow also stocks Western skincare — CeraVe, La Roche-Posay, The Ordinary, Paula's Choice — so it is a general skincare retailer rather than a pure K-beauty specialist.

By category

CategoryListingsMedian MVRLower quartileUpper quartile
Suncare201350308375
Masks10328050386
Exfoliants73350320401
Treatments36393295416
Patches19379195401

Sweep method: Shopify products.json feeds for mizuki, laneve and vitalhouse; a full crawl of 1,203 live product pages for luxeglow's custom site; Odoo category and search pages for lecute. Every price was read from a page fetched during the sweep, and all five stores were confirmed to quote in MVR from their own currency field.