Affiliate Disclosure

That sentence is the legally required version. Here's the plain-language one: when a product link on this site points to Amazon, it usually carries my Associate tag. If you click through and buy something, Amazon pays me a small commission. That's true whether or not the thing you buy is the item the link was actually about.

It costs you nothing extra. The price you pay is the same price you'd pay by typing the same product into Amazon directly. The commission comes out of Amazon's margin, not your wallet.

It doesn't buy opinions. No brand pays for placement on this site, and no manufacturer gets to review a gear write-up before it goes live. If a category page notes that an item isn't sold on Amazon, or that a listed "equivalent" is a rough match rather than the exact model a contestant carried, that's me telling you the honest limits of what I could verify, not a sales pitch.

Not every product mentioned on this site has a working Amazon link. Some gear contestants have carried simply isn't sold on Amazon, and where that's the case, the product page says so instead of forcing a link that doesn't actually lead anywhere useful.