Trust & standards
Review methodology
How a product becomes a recommendation.
Selection
We choose categories by reader relevance and purchase frequency, not by affiliate commission rates. Within a category, the comparison set is defined before testing begins and published with the review.
Acquisition
We buy test units at retail wherever practical. Where a manufacturer supplies a unit, we say so in the review, we accept no conditions on coverage, and we do not provide advance sight of our conclusions.
Scoring
Scores follow the written criteria for the category and are set by the desk. We publish the criteria alongside the score so a reader can weight them differently if their priorities differ from the median buyer's.
Re-testing
Recommendations are revisited when a product is superseded, when a significant firmware or service change alters behaviour, or when reader reports suggest a reliability problem we did not observe.
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