Affiliate disclosure

What we participate in

Shake & Print 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.

That is the only affiliate program this site uses. There is no sponsored content, no paid placement, no paid review, and no other affiliate network. If that changes, this page changes first.

How our links work

• •Every product link goes to Amazon, tagged with our affiliate ID (`jr-shakeprint-20`). The tag is what tells Amazon the visit came from here.
• •Links are routed through our own `/go` redirector, which is a plain server-side redirect. It exists so the tag is applied in exactly one place in our code rather than written out on every page, which is how we make it impossible to ship an untagged or wrongly tagged link.
• •Every affiliate link carries `rel="sponsored nofollow noopener"` and opens in a new tab, which is what Google's link-spam policy asks for and what tells search engines the link is commercial rather than editorial.
• •Links to a manufacturer's specification page or a cited review are NOT affiliate links. Those are citations. We earn nothing from them and they are not routed through the redirector.

In practice that means a page may contain both kinds of link: a tagged Amazon link where you can buy the product, and a plain link to the Fujifilm or Polaroid page the specification came from. We earn from the first and not the second.

What the commission does not affect

This is the part that matters, and the easiest way to demonstrate it is with what is actually on the site.

• •The cheapest camera we recommend is usually the top pick. The instax mini 12 and mini 13 are the lowest-priced cameras here, and therefore the lowest commission value, and they are the first recommendation on most pages — because they are the right answer.
• •Several pages recommend not buying hardware at all. The under-$50 page says plainly that no new instant camera exists in that bracket and that the money is better spent on film and an album. That earns us less. It is also true.
• •Several pages recommend the cheaper running cost over the pricier product. The Kodak printer at about 42 cents a print outranks more expensive options repeatedly, and we say so even where a dearer product would pay more.
• •Every pick names who should skip it. A recommendation with no stated downside earns more and is worth less.
• •No brand has any input. Nobody pays for placement, reviews our copy before publication, or sees a page before it is live.

Prices, and why we show none

Every buy button on this site reads "Check price on Amazon" rather than showing a figure. That is deliberate and it is the honest position for this site right now.

There is no live price feed here yet, because the site does not have its own Amazon Creators API credential — the mechanism that allows prices to be pulled automatically, timestamped and refreshed daily. Rather than hardcode numbers that would be stale within weeks, the buttons send you to the current listing.

The per-shot film costs you do see throughout the site are a different thing: dated research, fetched from a named retail listing on a stated date, used for comparing formats against each other rather than as today's checkout price. Every one links to the listing it came from. How we pick sets out the method.

Reviews and ratings

• •We do not test these products, and we say so on every review. See how we pick.
• •There are no testimonials on this site, because we have no reader reviews to quote. A page with none is better than a page with invented ones.
• •We do not borrow Amazon's star ratings. Amazon's rating is Amazon's; presenting it as our assessment would be misleading.
• •The scores on our product cards are editorial judgment, not test results, and they deliberately never appear in this site's structured data.

Where the disclosure appears

In three places, so it is hard to miss: a short disclosure block above the first affiliate link on every commercial page, an `#ad` marker with a link to this page under every buy button, and a statement in the footer of every page on the site.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think a link or a claim on this site is not properly disclosed, email contact@shakeandprint.com. That is a correction we would want to make.