Editorial policy

UponSale publishes measurements, not opinions. This page states the rules we hold ourselves to, so you can check whether we are keeping them.

1. Every claim is traceable to a measurement

If a page says a product is 11.7% below its typical price, that number came from observations we recorded, with sources and timestamps, and you can see the underlying range and store count on the same page. We do not publish a figure we cannot show the working for.

2. We do not review products

We have not tested the products we track, so we never write as though we have. There are no star ratings, no “our verdict”, and no invented pros and cons on this site. Where a page describes a product beyond price, it is normalised factual specification data, clearly separated from our own analysis.

3. We do not republish retailer copy

Retailer product descriptions are not reproduced, paraphrased or run through a rewriter. Rewording someone else’s marketing copy is not original content, and we treat it as a defect rather than a shortcut. Everything written on a product page here is computed from measurements we made.

Product photographs are a separate matter. Where a retailer publishes one, we display it beside their offer to help you identify the product — loaded from their own image host, never re-hosted by us, and never presented as ours. Any retailer who would rather we did not use theirs need only say so, and we stop. Where there is no image, we generate our own data visual rather than borrowing one.

4. Commercial arrangements cannot touch rankings

The algorithm that decides which offer is the best verified price has no access to commercial data. It reads price, freshness, match confidence, stock and anomaly state — nothing else. Where a commercial link exists, it changes only where a click goes, never the order of the table. Any paid placement sits in a visually separate, labelled block and is never presented as an algorithmic result.

5. We say what we cannot prove

We claim “the lowest verified price among the offers we track”, never “the lowest price on the internet”. When history is short, store coverage is thin, or a variant is unconfirmed, the page says so instead of projecting false confidence.

6. Uncertainty is shown, not hidden

Stale prices are labelled stale. Unverified matches are labelled unverified. A product with one offer is not described as a market comparison. A flagged price anomaly is visible rather than quietly dropped.

7. Automation is a technique, not an excuse

Much of this site is generated. That is fine — the output still has to be genuinely useful. A page is only eligible for search indexing when it clears a quality gate that requires several independent fresh offers, real recorded history, a computed original summary and valid structured data. Pages that fail stay visible to visitors and are kept out of search engines.

8. Corrections

Prices change constantly and retailer data is sometimes wrong. If you find a mismatched product, a stale price or a bad merge, report it. Corrections are prioritised over new features. Where an error affected a published claim, we fix the data and the derived statistics recompute automatically on the next cycle.

9. Who writes what

Product-page analysis is generated deterministically from our own measurements — the same inputs always produce the same sentences. Guides and research pages are written by the UponSale data desk from our own aggregated dataset. Where a guide states a figure, that figure is queried live rather than typed in by hand.

10. Advertising

Advertising, where present, is labelled, visually separated from product data, and never placed where it could be mistaken for an offer or clicked by accident. Ad performance does not influence which products we cover or how they are ranked.