Collectibles Multiverse believes readers deserve full transparency about how a website pays its bills. This page explains exactly how we make money, what an affiliate link is, and how we ensure money never influences our editorial choices.
An affiliate link is a tracked URL that, when clicked, tells a retailer or marketplace where the visitor came from. If that visitor then buys something within a window of time set by the retailer (often 24 hours, sometimes 30 days), the originating site is paid a small commission — usually 1% to 8% of the sale price. The shopper pays the same price either way; the commission comes out of the retailer’s marketing budget.
At the time of writing, Collectibles Multiverse is enrolled in or applying to the following affiliate programs. We will keep this list current as relationships change.
Every affiliate link on this site is rendered with the rel="sponsored nofollow" attribute, which tells search engines the link is paid. Where context isn’t obvious, we also flag links with the marker (affiliate) in plain English. We never use cloaked redirects designed to disguise that a link is monetised.
We recommend a product or auction listing only when it would have appeared in the article anyway. The decision tree is simple: write the article first, then check whether any natural recommendations have an affiliate program available. We do not write articles to fit programs.
We have walked away from sponsored placements that asked us to inflate prices, hide negative information, or remove a competitor’s mention. Those emails go straight into our archive folder labelled “no thanks”.
Every dollar earned through affiliate links and display advertising goes back into the site: hosting, image licensing, auction-data subscriptions, freelance contributor payments, and the time our editors spend researching and verifying claims. None of the income is used to pay for placement on third-party sites, fake reviews, or link networks.
You can use any link on the site, affiliate or not, with the assurance that we picked it because it serves the article. If you’d rather not click an affiliate link, you can always search the retailer directly — it costs you nothing either way. The most valuable thing you can do for the site, if you find our content useful, is to share an article with another collector or sign up for our newsletter when it launches.
For questions about specific links, programs, or how a particular recommendation came to appear in an article, write to us at our contact page. We answer every editorial-policy email personally.
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