The fine print
About Deals Meridian
A small shopping magazine for people who would rather pay a fair price once than chase a flashy one twice. Here is who makes it and how a pick earns its place.
The short version
- Deals Meridian is written by an unnamed in-house team, the Deals Meridian Editorial Team, and published by CTAWeb Srls, a small company in southern Italy.
- We compare what sellers publish: prices, specifications, return terms. We also read owner reviews that can be traced to a real purchase.
- We don't buy the products we write about and we don't test them. No page on this site suggests otherwise.
- Every price carries the date we saw it and the store that showed it. Discounts always name the price they are measured against.
Why this site exists
Online shopping has a direction problem. A banner says 40% off, a timer says the offer ends tonight, a coupon box promises something extra at checkout, and it gets hard to tell which way is actually cheaper. Deals Meridian tries to give readers a fixed line to steer by: what the product really does, what sellers are really charging for it this week, and what the store's small print says about sending it back.
Our guides cover four areas, which we call directions: tech, home and kitchen, fashion and beauty, and general buying advice such as coupons, cashback and the timing of seasonal sales. Each guide is meant to leave you able to judge the next offer yourself, including the ones we never write about.
The people behind it
Guides are written and fact-checked by the Deals Meridian Editorial Team for CTAWeb Srls, and they are published without personal bylines. Every guide starts from the sources listed below, and every price, specification and store condition in it is checked again at its source before publication. Guides are signed by the team, and no page carries the name or photo of a person who didn't write it.
CTAWeb Srls is a limited company registered in Italy, in the province of Caserta. The publisher box below lists its registration details.
How we pick
We shop the way a careful reader could, only more slowly and with notes. A product gets into a guide after we have looked at four things.
- Published prices from several sellers. We note the price on the manufacturer's own store and at a handful of other retailers, and how it has moved when a seller or a price tracker shows that history. A price only appears in a guide with the store's name and the date we saw it.
- The specification sheet. Battery life, dimensions, materials, warranty length and model numbers come from the maker's documentation. When a retailer lists something different from the manufacturer, we go with the manufacturer and say so.
- Return and warranty terms. A cheap price with a 14-day window and a restocking fee can be a worse deal than a slightly higher one with free returns. We read the seller's return policy, including the rules for sale items, and point out anything unusual.
- Reviews we can verify. Owner reviews count when they come from a verified purchase or are posted under a real account, and when several of them independently describe the same strength or fault. We ignore star averages on their own, reviews offered in exchange for a free product, and anything that reads like marketing.
What we don't do
We don't buy the products, borrow them from brands or run lab tests. When a guide says a pair of earbuds lasts eight hours, that figure is the manufacturer's claim and the guide attributes it; we would only call it a measurement if we had measured it, and we haven't. You won't find "hands-on", "we tried" or "after weeks of use" anywhere on this site.
How a verdict is phrased
Picks are grouped by who they suit, usually in three bands: Budget, Quality and Premium. Each "Best for" label comes with one concrete reason a reader can check, such as the return window or a specific feature. We don't number products, award stars, crown a single winner or call anything "the best" in absolute terms.
How we handle prices and discounts
- Every price is a dated example. It shows what one seller charged on the day we looked. Prices change, sometimes several times a day, and the figure you see at the store is the one that counts.
- A discount always names its reference. Our badges read, for example, "33% below the seller's list price", and we only show one when the seller itself publishes that list price. If we can't find out where a "was" price comes from, we leave it out rather than repeat it.
- Coupons and codes come with conditions. They may expire early, apply only to some items or only in some countries. We publish codes only when a merchant or its affiliate network makes them available to publishers.
- No urgency. No countdown clocks, no "only 2 left", no "ends at midnight". If a deal disappears while you think it over, a similar one will usually come back.
Keeping the lights on
Many product links on the site are affiliate links through networks such as Awin and Admitad. If you buy after clicking one, the store may pay us a commission; your price stays the same. The money pays for the editors' time. It doesn't choose the picks or change the wording of a verdict, and the full arrangement is set out in our affiliate disclosure.
Found a mistake?
A price may have moved, a code may have died, or we may simply have got a spec wrong. Write to info@dealsmeridian.com with the page address and what you saw. We recheck the source, fix the page and update its date; when the error was about a price or a condition you might have relied on, the guide says what changed.
Publisher details
- Publisher
- CTAWeb Srls
- Address
- Via Castelluccio 3, 81030 Falciano del Massico (CE), Italy
- VAT
- IT04201890615
- Company register
- REA CE-307422
- Share capital
- EUR 2,500.00, fully paid up
- Write to
- info@dealsmeridian.com