What I look at
- The specification. Capacity, output, battery chemistry, fuel type, standards marks. The dull numbers that decide whether a thing does the job.
- The maker’s record. How long they’ve been making this kind of product, what the warranty is, and whether they honour it.
- What buyers report over time. Patterns across a lot of verified reviews, especially the one-year-later ones. A product that fails at month fourteen says so in the reviews eventually.
- Whether it suits the UK. UK plugs, UK voltages, UK weather, and whether it’s reliably in stock here.
What I don’t do
I don’t run a test lab, and I haven’t handled every product on this site. Where a claim comes from the manufacturer, it’s the manufacturer’s claim. The stories about my household are there for colour. They are not test results, and no pick rests on one.
How the bands work
Bands are set per category, at the points where something actually changes. A power bank gets better in a different place from a power station. If the next band up doesn’t buy you anything real, I say so.
I don’t show prices, because they change daily and Amazon’s rules sensibly forbid stale ones. Every button shows you today’s price. If a pick drifts out of its band, it gets replaced.
How often it’s checked
Picks are reviewed for stock, band and anything new that beats them. Each page carries the date it was last checked.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date, or you know a better pick, tell me: hello@readylist.co.uk. I’d rather be corrected than wrong, though I reserve the right to be briefly put out.