# How we make money · Vendor Runbook

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## How we make money

In short: affiliate commissions. Your price does not change.

### Affiliate links

We may earn a commission when you buy through links on this page. It never affects our rankings.

When you buy through one of those links, the seller pays us a commission. The price you pay is the same as going to the seller's site directly.

### What the money does not buy

We do not sell places in our articles and we do not publish paid content. Every product we rank is described with its weaknesses, not only its strengths.

### Where our links go

We link to the page we write about, whether or not its seller pays commissions.

### Why it matters to you

A commission is paid only when somebody buys, so a page earns nothing unless it helps a reader choose. That is the incentive we want: get the answer right, and leave the choice to you.

### Questions

If anything here is unclear, [write to us](/contact).

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For product owners selling through affiliate networks like ClickBank, BuyGoods, Digistore24 and JVZoo: approval, funnels, affiliates, payouts and chargebacks.

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