ShopWiki Buying Guides
While searching for the best price on a specific product may be the most important factor in your buying decision, there are many other things that might help narrow your choices. If your ShopWiki search yields too many options, you may want to check out our buying guides (links are located directly below your search). These guides are written by users, like yourself, who have a particular expertise or experience with a product. Reading the buying guide before making a final decision might help you to get a more suitable product. Included in these guides are top picks from some of the main publications and Web sites on consumer products.
Or, if you just researched and purchased a top-of-the-line DVD player, why not update the existing DVD buying guide to help out other users?
Please remember that all of the guides are written by users like yourself. If you come across any mistakes or inaccuracies, please edit the problems out of text. If you can't specifically make the change, please write a comment at the end, so other users will be able benefit and/or write a correction. This will ensure we all have the most up-to-date information possible.
Some general tips on writing buying guides
- Use an objective voice -- keep a no point of view ( NPOV ) voice in your writing.
- Remember the audience -- your peers (let's not be condescending).
- Be as simple as possible -- you want to aid the buying process, not confuse the user with undefined complex terminology.
- Be concise -- most shoppers are taking a break from work and can't read lengthy articles.
- Use pictures and links -- pictures not only make the page look better, but aid the learning process.
- Don't use this as a PR/marketing tool -- any guides that are blatantly promoting one brand over another will be edited or deleted by the community or the ShopWiki editors.
- If you are going to list specific top-rated products from another site, please make sure to link to that site's page that discusses the rated products.