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Affiliate Disclosure

Which links earn us money, which earn us nothing, and why it does not change the picks.

Terry & Tub earns a commission on links to Amazon, at no extra cost to you. Every buy button on this site goes to Amazon and carries our tracking tag, and every one of them is marked `#ad`. Brands we have no affiliate arrangement with are still reviewed, but they carry no buy button -- only a citation to the page their specifications came from. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

When a product on this site has a buy button, clicking it takes you through a short redirect on our own domain and then to the retailer. If you buy something during that visit, the retailer may pay us a small percentage of the sale. The price you pay is exactly the same as it would be if you had gone to the retailer directly.

Every earning link is marked `#ad` on the page and carries `rel="sponsored nofollow"` in the markup, which is how search engines are told it is a commercial link.

Amazon links earn. Terry & Tub participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Some brands on this site have no buy button at all. Matouk and Quince sell direct only, with no affiliate program. We review them anyway, because leaving out the right answer to protect a commission would make the whole site worthless -- but their write-ups carry no buy button, only a link to the maker's own page as the source of the specifications we quote, and the page says plainly that you cannot buy them through us. Where a brand lists part of its range on Amazon, as Weezie does, that is the link we give you and we do earn from it.

Why commission does not decide the picks

Recommending the wrong product earns a commission once and costs a reader forever. That is not a moral position so much as an arithmetic one -- a buying guide that cannot be trusted has no readers to monetize.

In practice that means the cheapest product is frequently the pick, brands we earn nothing from get reviewed and recommended anyway, and a large share of this site's content tells people not to buy anything at all. How to strip towels is one of our most useful pages and it sells nothing.

Prices

Where a price appears on this site it comes straight from Amazon's own product data, and it carries the date it was checked. Prices are refreshed daily and a figure that goes stale is removed automatically rather than left on the page -- so you may see "Check price on Amazon" instead of a number, which simply means we would rather show you nothing than show you yesterday's price.

Amazon prices change constantly, so treat any figure here as a guide and the retailer's own page as the truth. We never type a price in by hand, and we never invent one.

What we never do

  • Accept payment for coverage, for a superlative slot, or for a change to a verdict.
  • Let a brand see a review before it publishes.
  • Publish sponsored posts or paid guest content.
  • Invent a price, a rating, a review count or a specification.
  • Claim to have tested a product. We run no lab.

Your privacy when you click

Clicking an affiliate link sets a cookie on the retailer's site that tells them we referred you. We do not receive your name, your address, your payment details or a list of what you bought -- only an aggregate report of commissions earned. More in the privacy policy.

Questions

If anything about how this site is funded is unclear, ask. The contact form reaches the author directly, or email contact@terryandtub.com.