About DealWeek
The short answer
DealWeek is written by one person, Ryan Smith, who is not a doctor. Every price, guarantee and shipping term is read off the manufacturer's own checkout on a stated date; gaps a company refuses to publish are named, not guessed. The site is paid by affiliate commission, which is disclosed on every page.
DealWeek reviews supplements that are sold online, directly by the company that makes them, and almost never in a shop where you could pick up the bottle and read the label first. That gap is the whole reason this site exists.
Who writes this
Portrait published with this byline.
The one person behind this site
Ryan Smith · sole author of DealWeek · contact@dealweek.shop
Every review on this site is written by me. I read the manufacturer’s own page and checkout before I write a word, I date every figure I publish, and when a company later releases information that contradicts what I wrote, I change the review and say so on the page — including when it means lowering a score.
My name is Ryan Smith. That is the name I publish under; I keep my legal name off the site, which is common for one-person review sites and does not change anything about how the work is done. I am not a doctor, an audiologist, a pharmacist or a nutritionist, and I do not pretend to be. What I am is stubborn about checking claims.
I write every word on this site myself. There is no team, no rotating pool of freelancers, and no agency filling the pages with articles about products nobody looked at.
How a review here is made
Most reviews you find for these products were written by someone who never opened the box, and it shows: the price is a year out of date, the guarantee is quoted wrong, and the ingredient list came from another review site that also got it from somewhere else. Here the order is reversed.
- Every fact comes from the source. Prices, package sizes, shipping terms, ingredient names, dosage instructions and guarantee lengths are read off the manufacturer's own sales page and checkout, on a date that is stated in the review.
- Missing facts stay missing. When a company will not publish its full ingredient list, its dosages or its certifications, the review says exactly that. A gap is named, never filled in with a guess or borrowed from a competitor's page.
- Personal experience is attributed to a real person. I do not invent results I did not have. Where a review draws on someone's daily use, that person is named, their age is given, the length of use is given, and what did not improve is written down alongside what did.
- Reviews are re-checked. These companies change prices and package offers without notice. When I re-check a review, the update date at the top of the page changes with it.
| The fact a buyer needs | How most review pages handle it | How it is handled here |
|---|---|---|
| The price | Copied from the sales page, often a year out of date | Read off the live order form, with the date printed. For Audifort that exposed a total of $167.95 on a kit advertised at $158. |
| The guarantee | Quoted as a headline number, with the fine print dropped | Quoted with what it excludes: shipping, handling and return postage are not refunded |
| Ingredients and dosages | Borrowed from another review site that borrowed it too | Only what the maker publishes. Audifort names 6 of "over 20" and no dosages, so that is what the review says. |
| Personal results | Anonymous testimonials, or a writer who never opened the box | Named person, real age, stated length of use, and what did not improve |
An example of what that means in practice. The Audifort review on this site is built on 180 consecutive days of use by my father, Walter Smith, 62. His hearing was not restored — the review says so plainly, in the same size type as everything else. What did change was the background ringing and his sleep. A review that only tells you the good half is an advertisement wearing a review's clothes.
How this site makes money
Through affiliate commissions. If you read a review, decide the product is worth trying, and buy it through a link on this site, the manufacturer pays me a percentage of that sale. You pay exactly the same price you would pay going to their site directly — the commission comes out of their margin, not out of your pocket.
That is a real conflict of interest and I would rather name it than hide it in a footer. Two things keep it honest here. First, the negatives are written before the buy button is placed, not after. Second, several products I researched never became a review at all, because after reading the evidence I would not have been comfortable sending anyone to buy them. A site that recommends everything it looks at is not reviewing anything.
What this site will not do
- Claim a supplement treats, cures or prevents a disease. They are not medicines and it is not legal or honest to say otherwise.
- Publish invented testimonials, stock-photo customers, or a five-star score for everything.
- Copy a competitor's page and reword it.
- Tell you to stop seeing your doctor, stop taking prescribed medication, or skip a hearing test.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong — a price that changed, a guarantee term I quoted badly, a fact you can show me is incorrect — write to contact@dealweek.shop and I will check it against the source and fix it. Corrections are made on the page itself, with the update date changed, not quietly deleted.
More on how to reach me is on the contact page.
Questions readers ask about this site
Is Ryan Smith a real person?
Yes — one real person, writing under a pen name. I keep my legal name off the site, which is ordinary for a one-person review site and changes nothing about how the work is done. What I will not do is invent a team, a medical qualification or a lab I do not have. I am not a doctor, an audiologist, a pharmacist or a nutritionist.
Have you personally taken the products you review?
Not always, and the review says so when I have not. The Audifort review is built on 180 consecutive days of use by my father, Walter Smith, 62 — named, with his age and the full length of use given, including the part that did not work: his hearing was not restored. Where nobody I know has used a product, the review is built on the documents instead, and it says that too.
How do I know a price on this site is current?
Because the date it was read is printed next to it. Prices here come from the manufacturer's live order form, not the sales page and not another review site — which is how the Audifort review can tell you the 2-bottle kit charges $167.95 against a $158 subtotal, a $9.95 difference the checkout never labels. When I re-check a review, the update date at the top of the page changes with it.
Does the affiliate commission change what you write?
It is a real conflict of interest, and I would rather name it than hide it in a footer. Two things keep it honest. The negatives in a review are written before the buy button is placed, not after. And several products I researched never became a review at all, because after reading the evidence I would not have been comfortable sending anyone to buy them. A site that recommends everything it looks at is not reviewing anything.
Something on a page is wrong. What happens if I tell you?
Write to contact@dealweek.shop and show me where the right figure is. I check it against the source and fix the page, with the update date changed. Corrections are made on the page itself — never quietly deleted.