Affiliate disclosure
How we make money.
When you click a 'Shop at Best Buy' or similar link from one of our pages and complete a purchase, we may earn a commission from the retailer. This is how we keep the lights on.
Commission does not change which products we pick. We use the same editorial process for every retailer regardless of commission terms. If a product is in our list, it earned the spot. If it is not in our list, no commission deal would have changed that.
We do not accept money from brands in exchange for inclusion. We do not run sponsored picks dressed up as recommendations. We do not stockpile inventory and offload it via affiliate links.
Required disclosure under FTC Endorsement Guides: Actually Worth participates in affiliate programs operated by major retailers and affiliate networks. We earn from qualifying purchases.
What 'qualifying purchase' means
A qualifying purchase is the standard affiliate-program definition: you click a retailer link from one of our pages, you complete the checkout at the retailer within the program's attribution window, and the retailer reports the transaction back to us through the affiliate network.
We get a small percentage of that transaction. The price you pay is set by the retailer and is the same whether you came from us, came from a search, or typed the URL directly.
Programs we participate in
The active program today is the Best Buy Affiliate Program (operated through Impact Radius as the network provider). The system is built to add additional retail programs as Phase 2 advertisers come online; we will name new programs here as they go live.
If you are at a retailer reading their disclosure language and you want to verify ours, contact us through whatever public path is currently published on this site.
What we do not do
- No paid placements. Brands cannot buy a spot in a list, a verdict, or a position on a list.
- No fake price history. The 90-day median and 90-day low we cite come from real captured price observations at the retailer, not from a marketing claim.
- No undisclosed deals. If we ever run a sponsored format, it will be labeled clearly and unambiguously as sponsored, not dressed up as editorial.