Affiliate disclosure
How this site makes money, which programs it is actually in, and what the commission does not decide.
Last updated September 1, 2026
Fret & Fuzz 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. When you buy through a link on this site we may earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not decide what we recommend.
01What an affiliate link is
A link that identifies this site to the retailer, so that if you buy something after clicking it, the retailer pays us a percentage of the sale. The price you pay is identical to the price you would pay arriving at the same page any other way.
Every buy link on this site routes through our own /go path first, which applies the tracking identifier and then redirects you to the retailer. That redirect is not indexed and carries no content — it exists so that a destination can be changed in one config entry rather than by editing every page that links to a product.
02Which programs we are in
| Retailer | Program | Status | Tracking ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Amazon Services LLC Associates Program | Active | fretandfuzz-20 |
| Sweetwater | Not joined | No commission earned | None |
| Manufacturer direct stores | Not joined | No commission earned | None |
Amazon is the only affiliate program in place. Any other outbound link on this site earns us nothing, and we would rather say that than imply a network we are not part of.
If that changes, this table changes with it. We will not wire tracking for a program we have not joined, even where one exists publicly.
03What the commission does not decide
The ordering of a shortlist, whether a product appears at all, or what we say about it. That is a claim, so here is how the site is built to make it checkable rather than asking you to take it:
- Every shortlist names at least one pick we tell you not to buy, with the reason.
- Several pages recommend spending less than you were planning to. The under-$100 roundup argues that budget pedals are frequently faithful copies of the same circuits.
- Some pages recommend buying nothing. The reverb roundup opens by asking whether your amp already has one; the pedal-or-amp guide frequently concludes that the answer is neither.
- Where the honest recommendation is an unbuyable product, we say so and point at the affordable equivalent instead of pretending.
04How prices work
Prices on this site come from a live data layer refreshed from the retailer's own API. Where no live figure is available, the button reads “Check price” and links through — it never shows a number we remember from last month.
Where a live price does appear, it carries the date it was checked. Prices change constantly and the price you see at the retailer is the price that applies. At launch, the live price layer is empty because the API credentials are not yet provisioned, so every button currently reads “Check price”.
05What we do not accept
| Count | |
|---|---|
| Sponsored posts | 0 |
| Paid placements in a shortlist | 0 |
| Free products accepted from manufacturers | 0 |
| Units we claim to have tested | 0 |
Four numbers where zero is the good answer. They are the honest version of a trust badge.
06Your part of it
Nothing is required of you. Clicking an affiliate link costs you nothing, buying through one costs you nothing extra, and not using them costs you nothing either — the entire content of this site is free and identical whether or not you ever click a buy button.
The retailer sets a cookie when you arrive through one of our links, which is how the sale is attributed. Our privacy policy covers what data this site itself collects, which is limited to standard analytics.
07Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think a page is failing to disclose something it should, tell us. Disclosure complaints are treated the same way as factual corrections: checked, and fixed if we are wrong.