Forbes Vetted | Expert Product Reviews, Buying Guides, Shopping Advice
Forbes Vetted is a section of Forbes.com that provides expert shopping recommendations. Our guidance is based on deep research and hands-on product testing by our staff. Our expert editors give you straightforward shopping advice on everything from home goods and tech to fashion, gifts and more, plus the inside scoop on what today's leaders and tomorrow's visionaries are using to step up their game. Our guidance is the result of world-class research and real-life testing: Each product we feature is carefully and thoroughly evaluated to power our readers’ success.To determine the best items in a specific category, we begin by interviewing our network of experts and influential people who have experience with the products at hand, along with insights on a number of brands in the space. Once we understand the gold-standard qualities of a product from our own research and interviews with sources, we curate contending items that meet our criteria.We then supplement and hone these researched recommendations with user data, poring over customer reviews and ratings on multiple retailers and taking those into consideration in our final list. We typically eliminate products with average star ratings lower than 4 out of 5, as well as products with substantial negative feedback.To conduct these tests, our team spends hours researching each category of products we write about; this once again involves interviewing topic-specific experts on a specific class of product and developing a unique testing methodology for it.
