Sellers cannot pay to alter this verdict, score or ranking. That sentence appears beside every verdict TickClip publishes, and this page is what stands behind it.
Who TickClip works for
TickClip works for the shopper.
Sellers, brands, marketplaces and data providers cannot buy placement, purchase a positive verdict, or change a product's score, confidence, ranking, or Tick / Clip / Skip decision. There is no mechanism to do it. The verdict is computed from evidence by the rules in How a product earns a Tick, Clip, or Skip, and no field in that calculation accepts a commercial input.
How TickClip makes money
TickClip currently earns no affiliate commission when a shopper follows a retailer link, and runs no advertising.
If that changes, this page will say so, and the disclosure will appear beside affected product links, before any commission-bearing link is published. We will not introduce it quietly and document it afterwards.
Commercial relationships would not override the evidence rules in any case. Sponsored placement, if it is ever introduced, will be labelled as such and kept out of editorial decisions entirely. It would not enter the score, the ranking or the verdict.
Conflicts of interest
- Data providers. TickClip pays Keepa for marketplace price history. That is a supplier relationship: they provide measurements, they have no view of our conclusions, and no arrangement between us is conditional on what a verdict says.
- Retailers. Retailer links are normalised to a canonical product URL. The link does not carry a commercial identifier and it does not affect the editorial score.
- Sellers. We take no payment, product, sample or consideration from any seller. There is no submissions inbox that leads to a verdict.
- Staff and ownership. Nobody involved in producing verdicts holds a commercial interest in a seller or brand we publish about. If that ever changes, the interest will be disclosed on this page and the affected verdicts flagged.
Seller and brand submissions
We do not accept submissions for inclusion, and there is no paid or expedited route to a verdict. A product is analysed because a shopper asked about it or because it entered our coverage queue, and for no other reason.
Sellers and brands are welcome to report a factual error: a wrong identifier, a mismatched image, a price that was never real. That is a corrections request, handled below, and it is judged on the evidence rather than on who sent it.
Corrections policy
A verdict can be wrong. When it is, the correction is public.
- Report it to support@tickclip.ai with the product and what is wrong.
- What we do. We re-check the product against current evidence. If the verdict was wrong on the facts, it is corrected. If the underlying data was wrong, we say so.
- Restoring a previous verdict. Every published verdict is kept permanently and can be promoted back to being the live one, with a recorded reason. A restored verdict must still pass today's publication checks, because a rollback is itself a publication rather than an exemption from the rules.
- Withdrawal. A verdict can be withdrawn or permanently removed when its evidence or publication status no longer meets the standard. Withdrawal is not silent: the page states that the verdict needs a re-check and when it was last true.
- Undisclosed conflicts can be reported to the same address and are treated as corrections.
Retailers and data sources
Retailers and third-party data providers supply product facts. They do not control TickClip's conclusions.
- Marketplace ratings remain attributed marketplace data, never presented as TickClip's own testing or as our editorial score.
- Manipulation indicators are caution signals about a pricing pattern, not proof of seller intent or misconduct.
- Final price, availability, warranty, returns and seller terms are the retailer's, and are subject to their checkout.
The complete list of inputs and the order in which they are trusted is in the source hierarchy.
Deal and promo-code policy
Deals and promo codes are entered and reviewed by a person before they appear. Nothing is scraped and auto-published.
- A deal is public only while its status is active, and a daily job expires any whose end date has passed.
- A verdict that leaned on a promo code is invalidated the moment that code expires, however recent the verdict is.
- A discount percentage is calculated from the deal's own two prices, never from a seller's claim about what a product "was" worth.
- A struck-through price more than 20% above what the product has actually been trading at is treated as an implausible discount and blocks publication.
No seller pays to have a deal listed, and no deal is prioritised for commercial reasons.
Editorial controls
Every product is evaluated under the same scoring, confidence, publication and indexability rules. There is no editorial override and no per-product exception list.
A large discount does not guarantee a Tick. Weak evidence, implausible price framing, poor buyer signals or an unresolved contradiction can lower confidence, cap a score, prevent publication, or produce a Clip or a Skip.
The full evidence model, including the exact weights, thresholds and their limitations, is in How a product earns a Tick, Clip, or Skip.
Ownership and contact
TickClip is operated independently and is not owned by, funded by, or affiliated with any retailer, marketplace, brand or seller whose products it publishes verdicts about.
Editorial and corrections: support@tickclip.ai.
Review published product verdicts to inspect the current decisions for yourself.