How we check

What gets re-checked, and when

The catalogue is refreshed on a schedule rather than page by page when something looks stale. A refresh re-reads every price, every published dimension, every piece count and every rating pool in the range at once, so no corner of the site quietly ages while the front page stays fresh. The date of the most recent pass is printed in the bar at the top of every page and again in the footer.

Between refreshes nothing is edited silently. If a price on a product page is a week old, that is what the date beside it says.

The rules that bind the numbers

• A price is shown only when we can confirm it. When a piece is temporarily unavailable there is no reliable current figure for it, and a stale price is worse than none, so the page says so instead of guessing. The piece stays in the catalogue.
• Ratings attach to designs, not variations. Buyer reviews pool across a design's sizes, so we print that pool once with its size beside it. The ratings page has the full method.
• Photographs must belong to the exact product. The whole catalogue is reviewed by eye before it goes up, and again whenever imagery changes.
• Sources are read before they are cited, on a recorded date, and each citation names the sentence it supports. The sources page lists every one.

When something fails a check

A specification that contradicts itself, or a certification claim with nothing to verify against, is published with the discrepancy stated rather than smoothed over. Corrections that arrive by mail are checked and fixed, and the check date on the page moves with the fix.

Published 2026-08-01. Last reviewed 2026-08-01.