Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Mat & Blade earns commission when you buy something through a link on this site. It costs you nothing extra, and it never changes what we recommend or the order we rank things in.

Amazon Associates

Mat & Blade 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 advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Amazon is currently the only retailer we earn commission from. If that changes, this page changes with it.

What an affiliate link is

When you click a product link here, you go to the retailer with a tag attached that tells them the visit came from us. If you then buy something, the retailer pays us a small percentage. The price you pay is identical to what you would pay arriving any other way — the commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your pocket.

Our product links route through an address on this site beginning /go/ before forwarding you to the retailer. That is so the tag is applied from one place and cannot be mistyped or forgotten on an individual link. Every earning link is marked #ad and carries the link attributes search engines expect on a paid link.

Where our prices come from

No price on this site is typed into the copy. Prices in this category move constantly, run frequent promotions and differ between retailers, so a number written into a page is misleading within weeks and actively wrong within months.

Instead, a daily check reads each product's current price from Amazon and that figure renders inside the button that takes you to the listing, stamped with the date it was read. If the check ever stops, the number disappears and the button falls back to "Check price on Amazon" — we would rather show you nothing than something stale. It is a price you can act on, and never a figure we cannot account for.

What commission does not buy

• It does not affect our rankings. We rank on what suits a first-time buyer, and we frequently put a cheaper product first.
• It does not buy inclusion. No manufacturer or retailer has ever paid to appear on this site, and none has seen a page before publication.
• It does not stop us saying no. Plenty of pages here recommend not buying something, or recommend a brand we earn less from.
• It does not buy a good review. Every product on this site carries an explicit "not for you if".

Our full selection process is on the methodology page, and our editorial policy covers sponsorship and corrections.

Where disclosure appears

• An inline notice above the first affiliate link on every page that carries one.
• An #ad label with a link back to this page under every buy button.
• A statement in the footer of every page on the site.
• This page, linked from the footer sitewide.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think a link is not properly disclosed, email contact@matandblade.com or use the contact form. We would rather fix it than have you wonder.

Last updated: 27 September 2026