Frequently Asked Questions

One of them. The UPLIFT V2 was bought with our own money and is used daily. Everything else is labeled "researched, not personally tested" on every page it appears, and is chosen from published specifications, manuals and warranty terms with every figure linked to its source. The full method.

Because we did not collect any. Publishing star counts we did not gather, or testimonials we did not receive, is the most common dishonesty in this category. We also deliberately emit no Review or AggregateRating structured data, since that would claim ratings that do not exist. What we do publish is a weighted score breakdown per product, clearly labeled as an editorial judgment rather than a measurement.

Prices in this category change weekly. Every price on this site comes live from the retailer rather than being typed into the page, and where we do not hold a verified live figure the button simply says "Check price". A stale price written into an article is worse than no price.

Affiliate commission. If you buy through a link here we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Nobody pays for placement, and no brand sees a page before it publishes. The full disclosure.

No, and the clearest evidence is what we recommend against. We tell readers the value pick often beats the premium one, that a converter is sometimes a better purchase than a desk, that some people should buy nothing until they have measured their elbow height, and that a discount claimed by phone — which will not credit us — is worth asking for.

Start with your own measurement, not a product page. Two minutes with the calculator gives you a standing and a seated number, and those will usually eliminate several desks immediately. Then read the main roundup.

The evidence is weaker than the marketing. A 2018 Cochrane systematic review found only low-quality evidence that sit-stand desks reduce sitting, and no evidence on longer-term effects. UT Southwestern cites a 2018 study reporting a 50% decrease in low back pain among sit-stand users. Both are true — we lay out the full picture.

No. Nobody on this site holds a clinical credential, and the health pages say so on the page rather than in a footer. Back pain, sciatica and disc conditions vary enormously between individuals — talk to a doctor or physical therapist about your own situation.

No. Not sponsored articles, not paid placement in a ranking, not link insertions into existing pages. The editorial policy sets out exactly what we decline.

Tell us and we fix it on the page where it appeared, noting what changed. Corrections are logged where the error was rather than on a separate page nobody reads. These are the messages we most want to receive.

Because the catalog is defined once and reused. A product cannot disagree with itself between a roundup, a comparison and a guide, which is a common problem on larger sites where each page was written separately.

Mike M., owner of Iron Mako Media, the independent publisher behind the site. That is the entire masthead — no team of experts, no clinical advisor, no lab. More about the site.