Editorial Standards

Last updated 2026-09-14.

This page is the set of rules the reviews here are written to. The site covers services sold as entertainment and it’s paid for by affiliate commissions, so a reader is right to want the arrangement spelled out before taking a word of it seriously.

What we review

Lifestyle and relationship services that have gone viral ahead of anyone checking them. The first market we worked through is psychic soulmate sketches, starting with the $29 drawing and written reading sold by Tina Aldea. We pick what to review from what’s being advertised hardest and from what readers send us, never from what pays the most.

How a review gets made

  1. We buy the product with our own money, at the advertised price, through the same checkout any customer uses. No press copies and no heads up to the seller that a reviewer is ordering.
  2. We order as an ordinary buyer would, with a real birth date and a real inbox.
  3. We log the minute the order goes in and the minute the file arrives, so a delivery time is measured rather than repeated from the sales page.
  4. We keep the artwork and the written reading, and we say how many pages came.
  5. We read the refund terms at checkout and we contact support to see whether anyone answers.
  6. Where we can, we order the same kind of product from a competing seller at a similar price, so a verdict sits next to a real alternative.

A review only describes what we ordered and received. If a claim on a sales page can’t be checked, the review says it can’t be checked rather than repeating the number as though we’d confirmed it. Nothing we publish is sent to the company for approval first, and no seller edits a line.

What a verdict can and can’t mean

What we can judge is a purchase. A good verdict here means the file arrived when it was promised, the drawing is the work someone described, the reading is as long as advertised and the refund route exists. We have no way to test whether a drawing resembles a person you haven’t met yet, so we never score that and we never imply we did.

Everything we cover is sold for entertainment. No sketch and no reading predicts who you’ll meet or when. The full wording is on the terms and disclaimer page.

How the money works

Affiliate commissions pay for this site. When you follow a seller link here and buy, the platform handling the payment pays us a share. For the offers we currently review that platform is ClickBank. You pay the seller’s normal price and nothing is added to your order for arriving through us.

The commission doesn’t decide the verdict. We’re paid the same share on a service we’d tell you to skip as on the one we’d order again, and the ranking is settled before a single link goes into the page. Where the honest answer is don’t buy it, that’s what the review says. Every review page carries a disclosure near the top and again in the footer, which is what the FTC’s endorsement guides at 16 CFR Part 255 ask for. Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored nofollow".

Some pages on this site are written as advertorials, meaning an advertisement laid out like an article. Those say so above the headline. No seller has ever paid us to publish a review, and if that changes the page will say it in the first paragraph.

Bylines and who writes this

The reviews are written by the people who placed the orders and kept the receipts. We don’t run invented staff profiles or stock photo headshots, and a review carries a byline only when a real person stands behind it. Editorial mail reaches the same people at editorial@themysticverdict.com.

Corrections

We fix errors and we say that we did. Mail the page and the line to editorial@themysticverdict.com and we’ll check it against our own order records and the delivery timestamps. A correction gets a dated note at the foot of the page it changed, so you can see what moved. Prices and refund terms change on the seller’s side often, and an out of date figure gets the same treatment as any other error.

Sellers are welcome to write in, and we’ll correct a factual mistake about their product quickly. A low verdict isn’t a factual mistake, so that mail gets a reply and no edit.

Reach the editors

Email editorial@themysticverdict.com, or use the form on the contact page. Both land in the same inbox. What we hold and how to get it deleted is in the privacy policy.