The plain version
No affiliate links are active on this site yet.
This page exists before the links do, because how the money works should never be something you find out afterward.
This site intends to make money through affiliate links: links where, if you click one and buy something, the merchant pays this site a small commission. It will cost you nothing extra; the price is identical whether you arrive through my link or type the store’s address yourself.
How you will always know
When affiliate links go live, every post that contains them will say so in a note at the top of the post, before any link appears, and again at the end. A post with no note has no affiliate links. There will be no guessing involved.
What the money will not touch
Commissions will not affect what gets recommended. The verdict on every post is decided from the research, before any link exists, and a “skip” stays a skip no matter who would pay for a kinder word.
The two rules you can check
Warning posts will never carry affiliate links. When this site tells you a product or practice will burn you, there will be no link on that page earning from your click. You will be able to verify this on any Warning, any time.
Recommendations exist before links do. Plenty of posts will recommend things this site earns nothing from. The recommendation comes first; a link is added only where one honestly fits.
Which programs
As affiliate relationships become active, they will be used under each merchant’s program terms, most commonly the large marketplaces and refurbishers relevant to used tech. This page stays current with the practice: when the first links go live, this page shifts to the present tense the same day, and if the practice ever changes, this page changes first.
The legal line
This disclosure is made in accordance with the FTC’s guidelines on endorsements and material connections. Questions about any of it: [email protected].