Affiliate disclosure

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Every price button on this site links straight to Amazon, with our affiliate tag in the address.

What happens when you press a button

Every "Check price on Amazon" button carries an affiliate tag. Follow one, buy the mower or the bag of grass seed at the end of it, and a share of that sale comes back to us. Amazon charges you its own price: arriving through this site adds nothing to it and takes nothing off it.

Every price button on this site links straight to Amazon, with our affiliate tag in the address. Every one of those links is marked rel="nofollow sponsored", and the reason is simple — a link that can earn money is an advertisement, and it ought to declare itself to whatever reads the page after you.

Which way the money tugs

Commission is a percentage of a sale, so one robot mower is worth a great many pairs of gloves. That pull is real and is better stated than denied. Three arrangements hold against it, and each can be checked against the pages rather than taken on trust:

• Where a product lands in a family has nothing to do with what it pays. No commission rate is looked at while a family is being ordered, and no family has been reshuffled afterwards because an entry turned out to earn more. When the right answer is the cheapest item on the page — or nothing at all, as when the perennial weeds have to be cleared before any seed is worth sowing — the page says so.
• Some of the firmest recommendations on this site cost very little. A replacement blade and the bolt that holds it, a spare inner tube for a barrow tyre, a chemical pH test that settles whether the soil ever needed lime: none of them earns much, and each changes more about a season than a costlier machine would. Price does not decide, and neither does commission.
• When a reference has no confirmed offer in the Amazon store this site links to — and carriage makes heavy machinery stocked very unevenly from one market to the next — the button runs a search there rather than opening a listing that may have gone. It earns us less; it costs you nothing.

None of this is for sale

Not a rank in a family, not a paragraph, not a kinder adjective. No page here is sponsored, and no verdict moves because a model goes out of stock or because a rival would pay better — nothing in the way these pages are put together is even capable of reacting to what a product earns.

The live figure shown next to a product

That figure is Amazon's own recorded price for your market, held briefly and then fetched again. This shelf moves on a strong season: demand climbs from March and falls away after July, and a mower can hold one price through the spring and then drop sharply once nobody is cutting grass. Treat any band written into a review as the bracket it is, and treat the number Amazon shows at the moment you order as the only one that settles anything.