A common and reasonable question: if this site earns money when you click through and buy something, does that mean you're paying more? The short answer is no, and it's worth explaining why, since the mechanics aren't always obvious.
When you click a link on this site and buy something on Amazon within the tracking window, Amazon pays us a small commission — typically a low single-digit percentage of the sale, depending on the product category. That commission comes out of Amazon's own margin, not from an increase to your price. The price you pay is identical whether you arrived at that Amazon listing through our link, a Google search, or by typing the URL directly.
This is the same model used by large, well-known publications that review products, not something unique to smaller sites. It's also why you'll see the same "as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases" language across the internet — it's a standard, required disclosure for anyone participating in Amazon's affiliate program, not a red flag specific to any one site.
Where this model can go wrong is when a site lets the commission structure influence what it recommends — pushing higher-commission categories or products regardless of whether they're actually good. We try to avoid that by applying the same review criteria across categories rather than favoring whatever pays more, though we'd ask you to hold us to that rather than take it on faith.