Affiliate Disclosure

CaseBack Codes is free to use. It pays for itself in two ways: affiliate commissions now, and display ads later. This page explains both.

The short version

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a commission. You pay the same price either way.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Programs we use

  • eBay Partner Network: our “search eBay” buttons open eBay search results, never a single listing. If you buy after clicking one, eBay may pay us a commission.
  • Amazon Associates: our vintage-versus-modern comparison pages may link to modern Seiko models on Amazon, once we find a listing that matches the model and is in stock.

Links to Chrono24 are plain links. We earn nothing from them.

Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored nofollow", so search engines can tell them apart from editorial links.

What commissions don’t change

Commissions never move a price range. Every range on a reference page comes from our own manual sampling of eBay sold listings, with the sample size and date printed next to it, and the methodology page shows how. A program paying us more or less doesn’t change a number.

They don’t change verdicts either. If a reference is a poor buy, say because parts for it are no longer made, we say so, even when that costs us a click.

And they don’t decide what we cover. We pick references by what collectors search for and what we can document, not by commission rates.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell watches. We don’t take payment for coverage, and we don’t run sponsored posts. If we’re ever lent or given a watch, we’ll say so on that watch’s page. We don’t link to individual eBay listings, and we don’t copy listing photos.

Ads

There are no display ads on the site today, and no third-party ad scripts load on any page. We won’t add any until an ad network has approved the site. Even then, ads will only appear within long-form text: never at the top of a page, in the decoder, in the authenticity check, or inside a price table. We’ll update this page before the first ad goes live.

Questions

A contact email will be listed here shortly. Corrections are logged on the methodology page.