How we test and review products

It’s hard to know who to trust online. But, unlike other sites, WePC puts every bit of kit we review through rigorous testing in our labs to ensure that you get the most reliable buying advice. We’re transparent about what we review and how we review it, using standardized tests to provide you with reliable and comparable data, on top of our own expert opinion. We will publish all the data that we get in relation to the review to give you the most information possible. Where we get results that are unexpected, we will run the tests again to check for consistency. Our reviews are here to ensure you buy only the best products that suit your needs.

Understanding our buying advice

Hands on product reviews

Every standalone review we do is based on the same specced product that you can buy off the shelves. We will get the product on a short-term loan from a retailer or manufacturer. Where we have a product on a long-term loan this will be for review purposes only. If a manufacturer or a retailer will not send us a review product, we will buy it ourselves.

We will never agree to any pre-conditions that dictate what we can or cannot say about a product. The WePC team does not accept promotional items or gifts from third parties. BGFG will never accept money or monetary incentives to review a product. (See our full Editorial Policy for more.) 

We may look at an early prototype of a product and where this is the case we may post a hands-on that doesn’t contain a verdict box or a score.

Every single product review is a mix of real-world and lab testing and is checked over by an editor before publishing to ensure accuracy. Opinion will be clearly presented as such, and separated from the test results.  

Corrections and updates

Where we publish a story or review containing a factual error, we will make a correction as soon as possible. If this has a material effect on a review, we may change the review score, but we will make this clear in the copy. 

Best of guides

We also publish Best Of articles that compare a number of products in the same category, to help you make an informed buying decision. These are compiled through our single product reviews and the team’s experience, and will change to reflect new products that are reviewed. As new products come into the Best Of guides, older products will drop out, meaning you always get an up-to-date snapshot of products in each category.

Comparison guides

We publish versus pages to show how certain products stack up against each other. These will help if you don’t know which product to buy from a certain spec in a category. These ‘versus’ pages may be drawn from full product reviews, or may be taken from early hands-on impressions or from specs. These ‘versus’ guides should be used as a guide to give you more information, but won’t give you as much information as a full single product review.

Hands-on

If we get a pre-release product we may run a hands-on to give you an informed idea of what the product is like. These won’t be as in-depth as a single product review and won’t contain scores or testing data. If you’re unsure about purchasing, you should wait for a full product review around the time of a product’s release. We may also run sponsored hands-on pieces that are paid for by a third party. These will be clearly as a ‘SPONSORED POST’ but will be fully independent pieces. You can read more about sponsored posts in our full Editorial Policy.