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 a press of the button actually does

Every "Check price on Amazon" button carries an affiliate tag. Follow one, buy the ski or the tin of wax 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.

The click arrives here before it arrives at Amazon, because which store is the right one depends on where the page is being read: a reader in Italy ends at amazon.it, one in Spain at amazon.es, each under the tag registered for that marketplace. All of those links carry rel="nofollow sponsored", for a plain reason — a link that can earn money is advertising, and it should say so to whatever reads the page after you do.

The direction the money pulls in

Commission is a percentage of a sale, so one airbag pack is worth a great many pairs of socks. 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 a binding needs a bench check before any new equipment is worth buying — the page says so.
• Some of the firmest recommendations on this site cost very little. A nine-euro tube scarf that closes the gap under a helmet, a five-millimetre scraper that does not flex, a second lens for the afternoon it snows: none of them earns much, and each changes more about a week in the mountains than a costlier purchase 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 a two-metre ski 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 it can be bought

Not a place in a family, not a paragraph, not a warmer adjective. No page here is sponsored, and no verdict shifts because a model goes out of stock or because a competitor would pay more — nothing in the way these pages are assembled can even react to what a product earns.

About the live price beside each 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 November and falls away after March, and a ski can hold one price all winter and then drop sharply once the lifts have closed. 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.