We lived with it so you don’t have to guess.

Online shopping is crowded with beautiful photography, confident promises and returns policies that are difficult to find. We started Pendrova to do the unglamorous work on your behalf: buy the product with our own money, use it for weeks, email support with a real question and, yes, send it back to see what happens.

Every review covers the store as much as the product, because a good purchase depends on the shipping, the service and the returns as much as the thing in the box. We publish the flaws next to the strengths, and we score every store out of ten on the same four criteria, each the average of real testers, so you can compare them fairly. The discount codes beside each review are ones we tried at checkout, and the one we name Top Pick is an editor’s call, never a paid slot.

We are independent. We accept no payment for placement or scores, we never review products sent to us for free without saying so, and when we earn an affiliate commission we tell you. You can read the details on our review policy and disclosure pages.