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How we review

Last updated: August 29, 2026

Every review on this site follows the same sequence. Publishing it means you can judge how much a given verdict is worth, and hold us to it when we fall short.

1. We read the seller's page in full, and archive it

Before anything is written, we go through the seller's own sales page from top to bottom and save a dated copy. That copy is what a review is checked against later, because sales pages change quietly. When a review reports a price, a bonus or a guarantee, it is reporting what the page said on a specific date, and we name that date.

2. We follow the purchase path to the order form

We click the buy button and go as far as the checkout, without completing a purchase. This is the only way to confirm three things that sales pages regularly get wrong:

• the price actually charged, which is not always the price advertised;
• the exact product name the buyer will see on the order form and on their statement;
• whether the checkout is a one-time payment or a subscription, and what the retailer's stated guarantee is.

Where the advertised price and the charged price disagree, that discrepancy goes in the review. It is the single most common defect we find, and it is the one most likely to cost a reader money.

3. We separate the seller's claims from ours

A review reports what a product says about itself, attributed to the seller, "the publisher assigns a value of", "the seller states that". It does not adopt those claims. We do not repeat a health claim as a finding, we do not repeat unverifiable statistics, and we do not borrow a seller's scientific references without reading them. If a product's page cites studies we cannot verify, that absence is itself worth reporting.

4. We state who the product is not for

Every review names the reader who should skip it. A product aimed at a beginner is a poor purchase for someone experienced; a purely educational guide is the wrong tool for someone who needs clinical care. A review with no such section is an advertisement wearing a review's clothes.

5. The link test

Before a review is published it has to pass one question: if every outbound link were removed, would this page still be worth reading? If the answer is no, if what remains is a stack of benefits and a button, the page is not finished, and it does not go up.

6. Commission is decided before the verdict

The commission rate is a fact about a product, like its price. It is recorded when the product is first assessed, and it plays no part in the verdict written afterwards. No seller can pay for coverage, for a better verdict, or for a higher position, and no arrangement exists in which a review is shown to a seller before publication.

7. Disclosure sits next to the link

Wherever a review offers you a link that earns us money, it says so at that point on the page, not only in the footer. The full statement lives on the disclaimer page.

8. Corrections are visible

When a price moves, a bonus disappears, or we simply get something wrong, we change the page and update the date on it. If you spot something before we do, contact@marlowewellness.com is the address.