Corrections
Every error we published and fixed, with the date and the old wording. Pages get edited silently everywhere on the web; a site whose whole claim is “we recorded this” does not get to do that.
— product pages promised a verdict within days
What was wrong. A product page without a verdict said it needed ten recorded checks and that “at four checks a day that is a matter of days, not months”. We check four times a day but write a price down only when it changes, so what the verdict waits for is movement — about six weeks at the rate prices have moved so far. Separately, the description a search result or a shared link showed could state a verdict about a price the page itself declined to judge: one older than we may publish, or an open-box listing.
What a reader could have concluded wrongly. That a verdict was a few days away, and that the page was broken when none came; and, from a search result, that we had called a price good or high when the page said nothing of the kind.
What changed. The page states the rule as it is and prints the date on which a price that has not moved becomes a finding of its own. The description is now produced by the same judgement as the page, from the same offer.
— the Prime Day page had the months wrong
What was wrong. The Prime Day page said the sale “has landed in July in every year since 2015 except 2020” and was “usually mid-July”. Prime Day 2021 ran 21–22 June, and Prime Day 2026 ran 23–26 June.
What a reader could have concluded wrongly. That Prime Day could be planned for July, and that the 2026 sale was still to come.
What changed. The page gives the 2026 dates and the years it was not in July. Amazon’s October sale, which the page mentioned only in passing, has a page of its own.
— the legal pages named the wrong operator and programs we do not have
What was wrong. The terms and the privacy page said the site “is operated from the United States” and that the terms “are governed by the laws of the United States”. It is operated by MonacoWebPix, a sole trader in Monaco. The affiliate disclosure, How we make money and About listed Impact (Walmart, Target, Best Buy) and CJ Affiliate (Newegg) beside Amazon Associates; no link on the site pays through either. How we verify prices described a crawler reading those four retailers every six hours, when it had read no price from any of them. The disclosure also said our /go/ redirector “records the destination and the deal”, which the privacy page correctly said it does not.
What a reader could have concluded wrongly. Who they were dealing with and which law applied; that prices from four more retailers were being compared; that an outbound click was logged.
What changed. The terms now name the operator and Monaco law; the privacy page names the controller, who else handles data, how long the server log is kept and where to complain. Every page names Amazon Associates as the only program and Amazon as the only source of prices. An imprint and a copyright procedure were added.
— the floor badge and the chart disagreed
What was wrong. The “lowest ever” badge and the price chart on the same card were computed from two different ranges. The badge took the lowest price seen across all retailers, while the chart drew a single retailer’s history. A card could therefore draw its price sitting on the floor line with no badge, or carry the badge while the line showed the price well above the floor.
What a reader could have concluded wrongly. That a price was an all-time low at the retailer they were about to click through to, when the low belonged to a different retailer entirely.
What changed. The badge and the chart now read one number, from one series, scoped to a single retailer. The badge was relabelled from LOWEST EVER to LOWEST IN 90D, because ninety days at one retailer is what the data actually supports and “ever” was a claim we could not make on our first day of recording.
How corrections work here
- Prices that self-correct are not logged. A price that moved because the retailer moved it is the system working; the timestamp on the card already tells you when we last looked.
- Wrong claims are logged. If a page asserted something about price history that was not true, it gets an entry here with the original wording, whether or not anyone noticed.
- Nothing is deleted to make a problem go away. Corrected pages are corrected in place; the entry here carries what they used to say.
Found something wrong? [email protected] — include the URL, the retailer and the price you saw. Why those three.