How this site is funded
In one sentence: we earn a commission if you buy through our links, it doesn't change what we recommend, and you pay the same price either way.
The plain version
Most links on this site that take you to a shop are paid links. If you click one and buy something, the retailer pays us a percentage of the sale. It costs you nothing extra — the price is identical whether you use our link or type the product name in yourself.
That's the entire business model. There are no ads, no sponsored posts, no paid placements, and no subscription.
Amazon Associates
Lights Out Bedding is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Our Associates tag is lightsoutbedding-20. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
What the money does and doesn't do to our incentives
Every affiliate site says commission doesn't affect its picks. Here's the specific reason it doesn't affect ours, so you can check the logic rather than take our word for it:
- The rate is the same across the products we recommend. Amazon pays a category percentage, not a per-product bounty. There is no mattress on this site we earn meaningfully more by steering you toward, so the usual distortion — quietly ranking the highest-paying product first — has nothing to bite on here.
- We link to brands that pay us nothing.Saatva, Purple, Helix and Avocado run affiliate programs we have not joined. Where they're the right answer we name them and link them, and we earn exactly zero. If commission drove the picks, those brands would simply never be mentioned.
- We take no free products.Nothing on this site was sent to us. Some very good sites do accept review samples and disclose it honestly — Mattress Clarity, for instance, states plainly that it receives free products. That's a legitimate model. It just isn't ours, and it's a real, checkable difference.
- No brand sees a page before it publishes. Nobody gets approval, review, or advance notice.
The bias we do have
It would be dishonest to claim money creates no pull at all, so here's the one that exists: we earn more from a $700 mattress than from a $60 topper. Any affiliate site has a structural nudge toward the expensive answer.
We deal with that by naming it, and by writing the cheap answer down anyway. Our topper page exists partly to tell you when a $60 topper genuinely replaces a mattress purchase. Our bedding hubtells hot sleepers to try sheets and a pillow — under $100 between them — before touching the mattress. Those pages cost us money. If you ever catch us doing the reverse, that's a real failure and we'd want to hear about it.
Prices and the 48-hour rule
Prices shown here are fetched live from the retailer and stamped with the date. If our price data is more than 48 hours old, the number disappears and the page falls back to "Check price". Prices change constantly and we'd rather show you nothing than a stale figure. The price at the checkout is always the real one.
What we don't claim
We have no test lab and we have not slept on these products. We do not publish scores implying we measured anything, and we do not invent ratings or review counts. That's not a disclosure footnote, it's the whole method: read how we review.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think a specific page is failing this standard, email info@lightsoutbedding.com. See also our editorial policy.