Bought, not granted

Accounts are registered and funded the way yours would be. Offers of comped balances, media logins and test environments are declined, because a brand that knows it is being observed stops being a useful subject.

Median of three

One withdrawal is weather. Three withdrawals across three weeks is closer to climate. The middle of those three is what gets published, never the quickest, and when the middle result embarrasses the brand advertising, the entry says so.

Weighting

Cashier speed dominates, because it is the promise most often broken. Redeemable value follows, gold discounted entirely. Then turnover, then the floor, then whether the rulebook and the cashier tell the same story. Library size and visual polish sit at the bottom, since a beautiful slow payer is still a slow payer.

Money and independence

Certain links pay on registration. Terms are struck before testing and are not renegotiable afterwards. A number of brands here contribute nothing and occupy the positions their cashiers earned. Nobody previews an entry and nobody buys one.

Refresh cycle

Nothing in this market holds still. Multiples change, floors climb, cashiers slow under load. The full hub is re-funded and re-tested twice yearly, with individual entries corrected sooner whenever a reader flags a change.