Who we are, and how we are paid

MetalVerdict compares welding and metalworking machines and the consumables that feed them, across twenty-four categories and five languages. We are a small independent editorial operation, not a retailer, not a brand, and not a media group.

How the site is funded

Every "Check price" button on this site is an affiliate link to Amazon. If you buy something after following one, Amazon pays us a commission. The price you pay is identical either way.

We think you should know the shape of that incentive rather than just its existence. Amazon pays a percentage of the sale, so in principle we earn more when you buy something expensive. Three things push against that:

• Nothing is ordered by what it pays. We do not know, page by page, which product earns us more — and we have never sorted a list by anything other than what the page argues. Where a cheap tool is the right answer, it goes first.
• Price and usefulness are not the same thing. Some of the things we recommend most firmly cost under twenty euros — a packet of contact tips, a fresh cutting disc, a magnetic earth clamp that actually grips. Most bad welds come down to a consumable, not to the machine that laid them.
• Nobody pays us for placement. We have never accepted payment, product or otherwise, in exchange for a position in a ranking. If that ever changes, it will be labelled on the page, not in a footer.

What we do not do

We do not run sponsored posts. We do not publish "top 10" lists assembled from other people's reviews. We do not rank by commission value, by conversion rate, or by what is in stock this week.

We also do not pretend to have long-term tested every product on the site. Where our judgement rests on specifications, documented mechanisms and the weight of owner reports rather than on months of use, we say so in the review.

Corrections

Prices move, models get replaced, and manufacturers quietly change components. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say what changed. Every page carries the date it was last reviewed.