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I had wanted to do this.. cause, money... but I felt that took away our credibility.

For a random consumer opinion I dont think collecting marginal payment on sales leads hurts credibility per se. The huge red flag for me is taking payment from manufacturers. But an adequately disclosed commission, applied equally to different masks, doesnt obviously introduce bias in to your test results. I guess it could induce you to recomend higher priced masks. But readers have the qualitative data available to select comparable, cheaper, products as well.

Perhaps you could provide two links. Once with affiliate tag and one without? Give users the information and the choice.

Oh ha this is a good idea

I guess the key is to make it easy for people to pick any decent mask. I’d prefer yours, but, as you say, you’re already selling at capacity.

I don’t care either way if you make a few percent off a sale of a competitor’s mask, and there’s no obvious conflict of interest, at least as long as there’s some mask on Amazon that works and isn’t sold out.

Thanks for doing all the tests!

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