Affiliate disclosure
Test & Told intends to join the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, the affiliate advertising programme that lets sites earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon. We have not been accepted yet. Until we are, no link on this site carries a tracking code and nothing here earns us a penny. This page will say otherwise the day that changes.
What that means in plain terms
Product links here are plain Amazon links with no tracking code attached, so buying after clicking one is not attributed to us and pays us nothing. Once we are accepted, those links will carry a code and Amazon will pay us a small percentage of what you spend. You pay the same price either way — the commission comes out of the retailer’s margin, not your pocket.
What it changes about our reviews
Nothing about the scores. Specifically:
- Scores are calculated from weighted criteria, each one drawn from the published measurements we cite on the review. We have not tested these products ourselves, and every review says so. Product links are generated automatically at build time from a product code, and will carry the affiliate tag the same way once we have one.
- We do not check commission rates before deciding rankings, and we do not rank by payout.
- We do not accept payment for a review, for a particular score, or for a place in a roundup.
- Where a product is bad, we say so and recommend against it, even though a recommendation would earn more.
Our full methodology and conflict-of-interest policy is on the how we test page.
Where disclosures appear
Every page containing affiliate links carries a disclosure above the first link, not just here. This is a requirement of the US Federal Trade Commission’s endorsement guidelines, and a reasonable one — you should know how a site makes money before you act on its advice, not after.
Prices
We do not publish prices. Amazon pricing changes frequently and their terms only permit displaying prices retrieved live through their Product Advertising API. Every product link sends you to the current listing so you can see the real price.
The one place a price appears is the price tracker, and every figure there is one you typed in yourself. It is stored in your browser, never uploaded, and never shown to anyone else — we publish no price of our own anywhere on this site.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think we have got a call wrong, get in touch.