If you're checking out my recommended tools you'll want to be confident that I'm not tricking, scamming or misleading you.
Here's now you can be sure.
I use this stuff myself.
If I recommend something, you can be confident that I genuinely believe it is a great option. Either it will be something that I regularly use myself, or a similar product from the same manufacturer.
For example, I don't own the 64GB Sandisk USB drive I recommend, but I have a 32GB one (and many smaller ones) from that same brand. So my recommendation is based on years of experience with that manufacturer, and decades of proven reliability.
Friends and family test.
If a friend or a family member wanted my advice or opinion on a product, anything on this list is what I would advise them to buy.
They wouldn't hesitate to tell me if I recommended a dud, and so I never would. I give you the same courtesy.
No bribery.
I will never recommend something based on a kick-back or special offer from a manufacturer or distributor.
My condition for reviewing or including something in a video will always be that I can be 100% honest in my opinion, including recommending not to buy it. I will always inform you when I have received something for free or for review.
If I am sponsored by a company, that will always be made absolutely clear wherever it is mentioned. I will never take a sponsorship and pretend that it is my own recommendation.
So far I have not been offered free samples or trials of any products, nor any sponsorships. I will update this with more information if & when that might happen.
Affiliates
I will include affiliate links where I have them. These offer me a small payment if someone uses that link to purchase something. My conditions for doing this are:
- It does not cost the end-user extra.
Any payment to me has to come from the supplier, not the customer. This is how Amazon affiliates (for example) work, where the price you pay is the same whether you use my link or not. - I still have to like and truly recommend the product.
Some manufacturers offer high affiliate rates to 'encourage' recommendations. I will never base a recommendation on how much money it might make me. - I will always let you know when a link is an affiliate one, by adding (A) to the link.