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About this guide, its sources and referral links

An independent guide to one shopping agent, supported by referral links and checked against the operator's published pages.

Type what you are after in English. What comes back is product cards, each pointing at one listing.

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Method

Three kinds of claim, kept apart

A guide that mixes quotation, measurement and opinion together is impossible to check, so this site marks which is which.

Quoted means the operator's own words, with the day the page was captured. Nothing is paraphrased from another guide. Measured means something counted or tested here, with the method named: the sixteen catalogue links were requested and answered, and the re-check list was diffed against its own rules over all twenty combinations. Judgement is mine, and is written as advice rather than as policy. The argument that a card drifts from its listing is an argument, not a term.

Where a question has no published answer, the pages say so instead of guessing. That happens more often than it looks.

Diagram of three stacked blocks labelled quoted, measured and judgement, each with a colour bar
Three kinds of claim. Separating them is what makes the site checkable.Swipe the image to read it, or tap to open full size.

Disclosure

Four things worth saying plainly

The referral arrangement is first because it is the one that could bend everything else.
The position
Not the agentThis site is independent of the company it writes about. It takes no orders, holds no money, handles no parcels and has no access to any account. Anything about your own order goes to the operator's contact page
Paid by referralLinks to the operator carry a referral code, and an account opened through one may earn a commission. There is no advertising, no products change hands here, and nobody has paid for coverage
Checked against primary sourcesEvery rule quoted comes from the operator's own pages rather than from another guide, with the capture date in updates
Checking an outdated ruleCheck the source log and the linked official page when a rule looks outdated. Order-specific questions belong with official support.

Questions

About the site rather than the agent

Why one agent rather than a comparison?

Because the interesting problem here is specific: this service buys from a link you provide, and a catalogue of links ages. A comparison page would have to leave that out to make room for a table.

Do you get paid to say good things?

The commission is on accounts opened, not on what is written. Which is exactly why these pages say when another kind of service suits better and which questions inspection will never answer. A guide that never says no is not useful enough to earn anything.

Where do the pictures come from?

Product photographs come from the catalogue the category tiles link into, each one opened and described before a caption was written for it. Screenshots are from the operator's own site, dated. Diagrams were drawn here from the numbers in the rows above; they illustrate published rules and do not add any.

Can I reuse these pages?

Quote a paragraph with a link, by all means. The screenshots belong to the operator and the diagrams were drawn here; for anything beyond a quotation, ask first at the address above.