Required disclosure

Affiliate disclosure.

Supplement Skeptic earns a commission when a reader buys through a purchase link on this site, at no extra cost to the reader. Here is the whole money path, in detail.

How purchase links work

Almost every review on this site carries at least one purchase link. Those links are ClickBank hoplinks. Clicking one sends you to ClickBank, which records that Supplement Skeptic referred you and forwards you to the vendor's own sales page. If you buy within ClickBank's attribution window, ClickBank pays us a share of that sale.

A link looks like this:

https://hop.clickbank.net/?affiliate=…&vendor=…&tid=seo_skep_<product>

The tid is a tracking tag that tells us which review produced a click. It identifies a page, not a person, and it is the same value for every reader who clicks the same review. What the site collects and passes on is itemised on the privacy policy page.

What we actually get paid

We are not going to be coy about the numbers, because vagueness is how disclosure gets used as cover. Commission rates in this channel are high — often 60% to 90% of the sale price — and the payout on a single multi-bottle order is frequently in the $100 to $160 range. Our review data carries the commission percentage and the typical earning per sale for each product, alongside its ClickBank gravity score, which is a rough measure of how many affiliates are currently making sales on it.

Those are the same numbers every affiliate site in this category is working from. The difference is that we will tell you what they are, and that we publish them next to reviews telling you not to buy.

Why this does not move the verdict

Read the library and the answer is arithmetic rather than a promise. Of 491 published reviews:

• 147 carry an Avoid verdict.
• 241 carry a Skeptical verdict.
• 103 carry a Conditional verdict.
• 0 carry a Recommend verdict.

Mean rating across the library is 3.9 out of 10; the highest score we have ever awarded is 6.9. We hold a commissionable link on roughly three quarters of those reviews, and that includes 111 of the 147 reviews that end in Avoid. We are, in plain terms, carrying a paid link on a page whose entire argument is that you should not buy the thing. A site optimising for commission does not publish that distribution. It publishes a top-ten list where everything scores 9.2.

The structural reason is that our commission rate is fixed by the vendor's affiliate terms and is identical whether the review is glowing or damning. There is no rate card where a better verdict pays more per sale. A softer review would sell more units, and the price of that is the only thing this desk has to sell — being worth believing the next time we say a product is fine.

Where links point

• ClickBank vendors. 487 of the 491 reviewed products have a ClickBank hoplink on file, pointing at the vendor's official sales page. This is the direct-response supplement channel and it is what this site principally covers.
• Direct merchant stores. Four products link to a merchant's own storefront rather than through ClickBank.
• Reviews with no purchase link at all. Around a quarter of review pages currently render no outbound purchase link, and earn us nothing. The review stays published either way.

We are not an Amazon Associates participant and there are currently no Amazon links anywhere on this site. We do not run display advertising, sponsored posts, native ad units, or paid brand placements of any kind.

Our own paid products

The Label Decoder and the tools pages sell a paid digital download of our own, processed through Whop. That is first-party revenue rather than affiliate commission, and it is disclosed here for the same reason as everything else: you should know every route by which a page on this site can make us money.

What compensation does not change

• The verdict. Products are recommended, questioned, or rejected on evidence, dose transparency, pricing, and checkout clarity. The methodology page sets out the full path from label to score.
• The price you pay. Purchase links carry no markup. The price through our link is the price on the vendor's page.
• What gets reviewed. Coverage follows what is being marketed hardest and what readers ask about, not what pays best.
• The cons list. Every review carries an explicit list of what is wrong with the product, and pre-checked autoship enrollment, undisclosed blend doses, and fabricated origin stories get named when we find them.

Where the disclosure appears

This page is the full statement. It is linked from the footer of every page on the site, under "How links work", so it is reachable in one click from anywhere including every review.

Reviews themselves discuss commission openly in the body copy — the affiliate economics of a product are frequently part of why we distrust it, and several reviews quote the vendor's own affiliate recruitment material back at it. What individual reviews do not yet carry is a standardised disclosure block pinned above the first purchase link. The FTC's guidance is that a material connection should be disclosed clearly, conspicuously, and close to the recommendation, and a footer link is a weaker placement than that standard asks for. We are stating the gap here rather than describing a banner that is not on the page.

Medical and product disclaimer

Affiliate links do not make Supplement Skeptic a healthcare provider, a seller, or a guarantor of any product result. We are not party to your transaction, we do not handle your payment for a supplement purchase, and we cannot process a refund on a vendor's behalf. Refund windows, shipping, and subscription cancellation are between you and the vendor, and where a vendor's terms on those are hostile, the review says so.

No review on this site has been reviewed by a licensed clinician; the editorial policy explains that in full. Read the sitewide disclaimer before relying on any supplement review, and talk to someone who knows your medical history before starting anything.

Questions

If you think a disclosure is missing, unclear, or in the wrong place on a page, tell us: [email protected]. That counts as a correction and gets handled like one.