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About Checking With You
Checking With You is an independent product-research and marketplace-comparison website created to help readers understand what they are buying, where they should buy it and which compromises matter.
Last updated: August 2026
Who runs the site
Founder and editor: Dean Reich
Dean is a recreational runner and independent product researcher with a particular interest in running equipment, technology, travel products and online marketplaces. He created Checking With You to turn scattered specifications, policies and customer-feedback patterns into clearer buying decisions.
How recommendations are created
Every page keeps four different kinds of statement separate, so you always know what you are reading:
- Published facts — specifications, policies and documentation from the manufacturer or marketplace.
- Customer-feedback patterns — what large numbers of buyers consistently report, described as a pattern rather than as proof.
- Independent editorial judgment — our scores and verdicts, always attributed to us.
- Personally tested experience — shown only where a product record is explicitly marked as personally tested.
We are not part of any marketplace
Checking With You is not owned, operated, sponsored or editorially controlled by Amazon or any other marketplace covered on the site. We may earn a commission when a reader buys through an affiliate link, and that never changes a score, a verdict or a quiz result.
We may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. It does not change what we score or how we score it.