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How we get paid

Required by the FTC, and worth reading anyway: the commercial relationships behind what you read here.

Last updated 12 September 2026

The disclosure

ReviewCost is funded by affiliate commissions and advertising. When you click a link to a product on this site and go on to sign up or buy, we may receive a commission from that vendor. This costs you nothing extra, and the price you pay is the same as it would be had you gone to the vendor directly.

This disclosure is made in accordance with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s guidance on endorsements and testimonials (16 CFR Part 255). It applies across the whole site: reviews, comparisons, category rankings, buying guides, and any coupon or deal listing.

What commissions do not buy

They do not buy a score. Scores are produced from our published methodology, using weights that are fixed across the entire site.
They do not buy ranking position. Commission rates differ substantially between vendors. We do not order rankings by what pays best.
They do not buy coverage or copy. We do not accept payment to write about a product, to write about it favourably, or to remove criticism. No vendor reviews or approves a page before publication.
They do not buy silence. Products we earn commission on are still criticised where criticism is warranted, and products we earn nothing from are still recommended where they deserve it.

Where the links are

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Coupons and deals

We do not invent discount codes. Any code listed on this site comes from a vendor, an affiliate network feed, or a publicly published offer. A code that we cannot trace to one of those sources does not go on the site — a fabricated code wastes your time at checkout and misrepresents a discount that does not exist.

Advertising

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Questions

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