Editorial Policy

Independence

No advertiser, brand or affiliate network has any say over what appears on this site. Nobody pays for a placement, a position in a list, or a favorable mention, and there are no sponsored posts. If that ever changed, the page carrying it would say so at the top in plain language — not in a footnote.

We accept no free products in exchange for coverage. Since we do not claim hands-on testing in the first place (see how we choose), there is no review unit to solicit and therefore no favor to owe.

Sourcing

• Specifications are cited to the manufacturer. Where a specification carries an argument, the product card links to the manufacturer’s own documentation.
• We do not launder unsourced claims. If we cannot find a primary source for a figure, the figure does not appear. We do not repeat a number because three other sites repeat it.
• Observation is labeled as observation. Where a judgment comes from watching rigs get set up at the lodge rather than from a document, the page says so. It is useful evidence and it is not a measurement, and we do not blur the two.
• Outbound reference links are not affiliate links. Manufacturer and authority links in the sources section earn us nothing. Only product buy buttons are commercial, and each is marked.

Claims we will never make

• That we tested a product we do not own, in any wording — including softer forms like “we found” or “in practice we saw” about a unit that has never been in our hands.
• That the author holds a credential she does not hold. The bio on the about page is the complete claim, and there is no expert panel behind it.
• That a product is safety-certified, rated or approved for something without a citation to whoever did the certifying.
• Any invented urgency — no countdowns, no stock scarcity, no “price rising soon”. We do not know, and neither does anyone else writing that.

Ratings, reviews and testimonials

This site carries no star ratings, no review counts, no scores out of ten, and no customer testimonials. Not as a design choice — because we have no honest data to build them from, and fabricating any of the four is both a deception and, in the case of reviews, a regulatory problem.

What replaces them is a published criteria set per product, rated in words, with the reasoning attached and the limits declared. It is less tidy than a number and it is defensible, which is the trade we would make every time.

Prices

No price figure appears anywhere on this site. Prices move constantly, and a page that states one is misleading within weeks of publication. Every buy button goes to the live retailer listing, where the number you see is the number you pay today.

This is why product pages here say “Check price on Amazon” rather than showing a figure. It is a deliberate choice in favor of accuracy over the convenience of seeing a number.

Corrections

We would rather be corrected than be wrong quietly. Send corrections to janet.hoyo@yahoo.com or through the contact page, and they are handled ahead of anything else in the inbox.

• Factual errors are fixed and the page’s last-updated date changes.
• Discontinued products are removed rather than left in place. A dead recommendation still collecting search traffic is worse than a shorter list.
• Changed picks say what changed. If a top pick moves, the page explains why rather than quietly reordering.
• Dates are never touched for freshness. The last-updated date changes when the content changes and at no other time.

Who is responsible

Every article is written and edited by Janet H., and the site is published by Janet Media Group. There is no anonymous contributor pool and no ghostwritten content. If something on this site is wrong, one named person is accountable for it.

Scope, and knowing our limits

This site covers consumer RV accessories for a first or second season. It does not cover, and will not offer opinions on, anything where getting it wrong is a safety matter we cannot assess remotely: diagnosing electrical or plumbing faults in a specific rig, specifying weight distribution for a specific tow vehicle, or any structural modification. Those need somebody who can see the trailer.