Affiliate disclosure

This site is funded entirely through affiliate partnerships with the mystery box operators it covers. Certain outbound links carry a tracking code, and when someone follows one and opens an account with that operator, a referral fee sometimes lands in this site's pocket. That fee is the whole revenue model — no ads, no subscription tier, no paid placement changes hands.

Commission and rating are decided separately

Scores get set using the process on theguide page, and that happens before anyone checks what a given operator pays per signup. Looking at the commission rate afterward doesn't reopen the score — a higher-paying operator doesn't get bumped up, and one running no affiliate program at all still goes through the same review.

This site doesn't run the boxes

There's no cart, no checkout, and no point where this site holds a customer's money or a prize on their behalf. Once you follow a link to an operator, you've left this site's infrastructure entirely — the account, the payment, and the box itself are all handled on the operator's own platform, under the operator's own terms.

How links are marked

Links pointing at operators carry sponsored and noopener attributes in the underlying markup, which is how the FTC expects paid referral relationships to be flagged to readers.