Buying Guides
The five questions that decide every large purchase
Most buying regret comes from answering the wrong question first. These five, asked in this order, resolve almost every decision before you have read a single review.
Buying Guides
Longer walkthroughs for the decisions worth slowing down on: what matters, what does not, and where to stop paying.
Buying Guides
How to tell a genuine sale from a price that was raised first
A discount is a claim about a previous price, and previous prices are easy to arrange. Checking whether a reduction is real takes about a minute and changes what you buy.
Buying Guides
Warranties and extended cover: when to decline both
Extended cover is insurance sold at the till by someone paid to sell it. Sometimes it is worth having. Working out which case you are in takes two questions and a look at your rights.
Buying Guides
Buy it for life versus replace it twice: the maths, honestly
Buying once and well is excellent advice in about half the cases people apply it to. The half where it fails is predictable, and the difference comes down to three things.
Buying Guides
The best times of year to buy each category we cover
Prices follow product cycles far more reliably than they follow sales events. Knowing when a category refreshes is worth more than any discount code you will ever find.