How we verify
The whole product is the stamp. Here is exactly what it means, and what it does not mean.
What a stamp means
A date next to a price means a person or a program opened that retailer’s product page on that date and read that number off it. It does not mean we were told the price by the retailer, an affiliate network, or another site. If we cannot read it ourselves, we do not publish it.
What we check, and how often
- Daily. Every published price is re-checked once a day.
- One product page per product. We do not crawl retailer sites or harvest catalogues. We open the specific pages behind the products we cover, and we read two things: the price and the stock status.
- Some retailers are checked by hand. Where a retailer’s terms do not permit automated reading, or where a page states no stock status at all, a person does the check and the stamp carries that date instead.
- Stamps expire. An automated stamp is good for two days and a manual one for seven. After that the price comes off the page by itself.
What we do not do
- We do not ride-test scooters, and we do not pretend to. Specifications on this site are as stated by each manufacturer, labelled that way.
- We do not report a safety certification unless the manufacturer states it on the product page itself. A UL badge in a site-wide menu is not a product claim.
- We do not mix refurbished and new prices. A renewed unit never sets a headline price and never appears on a buying list.
- We do not publish a price we could not read ourselves today.
Common questions
- Where do your prices come from?
- Each price is read from the retailer's own live product page. We never take a price from an affiliate datafeed, a price-tracking site, or a search result snippet.
- What happens when a check fails?
- The price is removed. If a retailer page changes structure, blocks us, or returns something we cannot confidently read, the stamp is cleared and the page says the price is not currently verified. It never keeps showing an old number with an old date.
- Why don't you show discount percentages?
- Because the reference price is often fictional. Several brands show permanent 'regular prices' the product never sells at, and Segway's own MSRP note says its MSRP may not reflect the prevailing market price. We publish the price you pay.