Policy
How a Guide Gets Made
Every guide here goes through the same four steps: someone asks a question, we work out the answer from primary sources, Daria checks it, and anything we get paid for is labelled where you'll see it. The steps are written out below so you can hold us to them.
How a Topic Gets Picked
Two sources: questions readers email us, and questions people clearly type into a search box and get nothing useful back. If a good, free, honest answer already exists somewhere, we link to it instead of writing our own. We write where the advice for a buyer under $10,000 is thin, hedged, or quietly written by someone with something to sell.
How a Guide Gets Checked
Every price, sale result and legal claim is traced back to a primary source: the auction record, the published price list, the platform's own terms page. Marcus pulls the source, Daria checks that it says what we claim it says, and nothing publishes until both have signed off. Where a number is an estimate, the guide calls it an estimate. When an error turns up after publishing, we correct the page and change its review date.
How We Label Paid Links
One label, used everywhere:
[affiliate] marks a platform that pays us a commission if you buy through that link. Your price is the same either way.
Anything without that label is unpaid. The order goes one way only: we decide a platform is worth recommending, we write it up, and only then does anyone talk about commercial terms. No partner reads a draft before it goes live. If a partner asks us to take a criticism out, the criticism stays and the request goes into the guide with it.
When a Guide Gets Rewritten
Each guide carries a "Last reviewed" date near the top. We re-read every guide at least twice a year, and immediately when a platform changes its terms, a fee moves, or a reader tells us something no longer matches reality. A dead link or a corrected figure gets fixed without touching the date; a full re-read resets it.
Tell Us We Got Something Wrong
Found an error, or a guide that has gone out of date? Write to hello@gidart.us and say which page and which line. We read all of it and usually answer within two working days. The three people you're writing to are on the About page.