How We Verify Listings (And What It Excludes)

Last updated 2026-07-29 · 3 min read

“Verified” is a word directory sites use loosely. Here is precisely what it means on this site, including where it stops.

The checks

A listing only counts toward the verified total when every one of these holds at the moment the site is built:

1. Identity confirmed. The source item resolved through the agent's own product API using its platform and item ID, and returned a live record.
2. Price re-checked in window. The displayed price came from that same response, inside our freshness window. A stale price does not qualify.
3. A description exists that was written for this site. We do not republish the seller's copy.
4. Exactly one primary image, with a recorded source. Every stored image carries its origin URL, a rights note and a content hash.
5. Alt text on every image. Not decorative filler — text describing that specific photo.

These are enforced by the build, not by a person remembering to check. If a listing fails a hard check, the build fails. If it fails only the freshness check, the page stays up — with its history and internal links intact — but it silently drops out of the verified count and loses its price schema until re-checked.

What we verify automatically vs. by hand

Everything above is automated. That is a strength for consistency and a weakness for judgement: an automated check confirms a record exists and is well-formed. It cannot tell you the item is good.

What “verified” explicitly does NOT mean

• Not an authenticity claim. We make no statement about whether any item is genuine, licensed, or authorised by any rights holder. Many listings in this catalogue carry visible third-party trademarks that we describe generically and never name.
• Not a quality endorsement. We have not handled these items. QC photo counts tell you how much evidence exists, not how good the item is.
• Not a stock guarantee. Sellers go out of stock constantly. Verified means the listing resolved when we checked it.
• Not a price guarantee. Prices move. The check date is printed on every product page — read it.

Where our data comes from

• Prices, stock, colourways, sizes — the agent's product API, per item ID.
• Measured weights and packed dimensions — warehouse records for SKUs the agent has physically handled. This is the strongest data on the site and the reason most product pages here carry information you cannot get from the seller.
• QC photos — the agent's stored photographs from completed orders.
• Descriptions — written for this site from the product photography. We describe what is visible and hedge what we cannot confirm. We do not state materials, origin, or construction quality as fact.

Known limitations, stated plainly

• Weight figures come from previously handled SKUs. Your specific variant may differ.
• Volumetric weight assumes a divisor of 6000. Some carriers use 5000, which raises every figure by about 20%.
• QC photo counts reflect what the agent has stored, not a quality-controlled sample.
• Product descriptions are generated from our own reading of the listing photography and the catalogue data. They are original to this site, but they are not the same thing as a hands-on review, and we do not present them as one.

If you find something on this site that is wrong, the takedown and correction channel handles factual corrections as well as rights complaints.