The short version: Elevated Home Review earns a small commission when you buy through our links. We only link to products we'd genuinely recommend. Our ratings and editorial opinions are never influenced by commission potential.
Elevated Home Review is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon.com.
When you click one of our "Check Price on Amazon" buttons or any other Amazon link on this site and make a purchase, we earn a small commission, currently around 4% of the sale price. You pay exactly the same price you would if you went to Amazon directly. There's no surcharge, no hidden cost, nothing added.
Every product we review has Amazon affiliate links attached to it. Those links contain a tracking code that tells Amazon a visitor came from our site. If you buy within a qualifying window, we get credited for that sale.
This is how the site pays for itself. The time we spend testing products, writing reviews, and maintaining this site comes from those commissions. We think that's a fair trade: you get independent research at no extra cost, we keep the lights on.
No, and here's why you should believe that.
A 4% commission on a $1,200 wall oven is $48. That's not enough money to justify recommending a product we don't believe in. Our credibility is worth more than any single sale. If readers can't trust our ratings, they stop coming back, and the site earns nothing.
Our honest take: we'd rather tell you a product isn't worth buying (and earn nothing on that page) than send you to something we wouldn't buy ourselves. That's the only model that works long-term.
We link to products on Amazon because that's where most of our readers already shop and where pricing is competitive. We don't link to every product from every retailer, just the ones we've reviewed and believe are worth your consideration.
In some cases, we may choose not to link to a product even if it would generate a commission, for instance if the price has become uncompetitive or the product has been discontinued. Your time matters more than our click-through rate.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires that we disclose any material relationship between us and the products we recommend. That's the right policy, and we follow it. Every review and comparison page on this site carries a disclosure notice at the top.
We don't believe in burying this in fine print. If you're reading a product review here, you should know upfront that a purchase through our link benefits us. That transparency is non-negotiable.
Amazon Associates is currently our primary affiliate program. If we add other affiliate relationships in the future, we'll update this page and apply the same disclosure standards across all monetized content.
If you have questions about how we handle affiliate relationships, or you want to know whether a specific recommendation on this site was influenced by a commercial arrangement, reach out via our About page. We're happy to answer directly.