Last updated: June 17, 2026
The short version
We pick products based on what people are actually searching for and buying, not what brands pitch us. We earn money through affiliate commissions, and the commission rate never decides which product wins a comparison or which retailer link we show first. When we get something wrong, we fix it and say so. This page explains the mechanics behind all three of those claims, since “trust us” isn’t actually a policy.
How Products Get Selected
We do not accept pitches, samples, or payment from manufacturers or retailers in exchange for coverage. This isn’t a moral stance we’re patting ourselves on the back for; it’s a practical one. A site that reviews what brands send it ends up covering whatever has the biggest PR budget, not what’s actually good or what readers are trying to decide between.
Products get added to the coverage queue based on three signals: search volume for that product or category, the existence of two or more credible competing options at a similar price point (a comparison without a real alternative isn’t useful), and reader requests sent to reviews@price-review.net. None of these signals can be bought. A manufacturer cannot pay to be added to the queue, moved up in it, or guaranteed a review at all.
We do not guarantee coverage to anyone who requests it, including readers. High-demand categories get prioritized; everything else sits in a backlog.
What Manufacturers and Retailers Cannot Do
To be specific rather than vague about this, here’s what doesn’t happen on this site, regardless of how big the company asking is.
- No company can pay for a better rating, a higher position in a comparison table, or removal of a negative finding.
- No company can pay to be reviewed at all. Coverage decisions are made by the editorial process above, independent of outreach from brands.
- No company gets to see or approve a review before it publishes.
- Free review units, where we accept them for hands-on testing, do not influence the verdict. If a unit was provided free rather than purchased at retail, the review states that explicitly. A free unit performing worse than a competitor gets reported as performing worse.
Affiliate Disclosure, In Full
Price Review HQ earns revenue through affiliate links. When you click a product or retailer link on this site and complete a purchase, we may earn a commission from that retailer at no additional cost to you. This is how the site stays free to read. That part you already knew. Here’s the part most sites don’t spell out.
How We Decide Which Retailer Link to Show
When multiple retailers carry the same product, we link to whichever one currently has the best price, full stop. We do not default to the retailer with the highest commission rate, and we do not hide a better price at a lower-commission retailer to steer clicks toward a better-paying one. Our price-tracking process, described on the methodology page, exists independently of which retailer pays what, which is what makes this checkable rather than just asserted.
How We Decide Which Product Wins a Comparison
Commission rates vary by retailer and by product category, sometimes significantly. A higher-commission product never gets ranked above a better one because of that commission rate. The five-part evaluation framework on the methodology page is applied the same way regardless of which affiliate program a product belongs to or whether it has one at all. If a product has no affiliate program, it is still eligible to win a comparison and frequently does.
Where the Money Actually Goes
Affiliate revenue funds the cost of running this site: hosting, the products we buy at retail for hands-on testing, and the editorial work of building and updating reviews. No outside investor or manufacturer holds equity or influence over editorial decisions in exchange for ad or affiliate spend.
Disclosure Placement
This affiliate relationship is disclosed in the site footer, on this page, and at the top of any individual review containing affiliate links. We don’t bury it in a single line you’d have to go looking for.
Correction Policy
We get things wrong sometimes. A price changes, a spec turns out to be misreported by the manufacturer, an aggregated claim doesn’t hold up once more owner data comes in. Here’s what happens when that’s flagged.
How to Report an Error
Email reviews@price-review.net with the specific page, the specific claim you believe is wrong, and ideally a source supporting the correction. General disagreement with a verdict isn’t a correction request; a factual error is.
What Happens After You Report One
We verify the claim against current sources before changing anything. If the original claim was wrong, we correct it and update the “last updated” date on that page. If the error was significant enough to change a verdict (not just a minor spec detail), we add a visible correction note at the top of the review stating what changed and when, rather than silently editing it as though the mistake never happened.
What We Don’t Do
We don’t quietly delete a review because a brand complained about it. We don’t issue a correction because a manufacturer disagrees with a verdict if the underlying data still supports that verdict. A correction happens when we were factually wrong, not when someone is unhappy with an accurate finding.
Conflicts of Interest
No one on the editorial team holds a financial stake in any company whose products we review, beyond the standard affiliate commission structure described above that applies uniformly across all coverage. If that ever changes for a specific review, for instance if we’re sent a unit by a company we have any other relationship with, it will be disclosed at the top of that review.
Questions
For anything not covered here, including how a specific product ended up in our queue or how a specific comparison was scored, email reviews@price-review.net.