Affiliate disclosure
TopHity is a product selection site. We do not sell products, take payments or hold stock.
How we earn money
The “Buy” buttons lead to the platforms through our affiliate links. If you buy something, the platform or the affiliate network pays us a commission. You pay the same price.
We take part, or plan to take part, in these affiliate programmes: AliExpress Affiliate, Admitad, Amazon Associates, eBay Partner Network, Awin.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
How products are selected
All data comes from the platforms’ official sources: affiliate APIs and product feeds. We do not scrape shop websites.
The “top N” badge is the product’s sales rank on the platform at the time of the update, according to the platform itself (not our own sales). The number is the position among the selected products: we skip products with low customer ratings, trinkets and duplicates. We do not show the platform’s crossed-out “old price” for bestsellers, because we cannot verify it.
The “−N%” badge is for shops that do not publish a sales ranking. We show products in stock with the best discount: we take into account both the percentage and the actual amount saved, so a −85% sale on trinkets does not push out a good item at −40%. Variants of one product (colour, size, phone model) are shown as one card, and we show at most two products from any one brand (three if the shop carries few brands). We do not show trinkets cheaper than a quarter of the shop’s average price in the category. The crossed-out price is labelled:
- “lowest in 30 days” — we record prices ourselves every day, and the discount is calculated from the lowest price of the previous 30 days. If the product is not cheaper than that minimum now, we do not show it;
- “according to the shop” — while we have less than 30 days of history, this is the price stated by the shop. If the product was already cheaper on the days we know of, we do not show it.
“No. N in the selection” is a hand-picked list. It is not a sales ranking.
Season. In seasonal categories (clothing, shoes, kids, sports), current-season items come first: September to February is autumn–winter, March to August is spring–summer. Out-of-season items (summer items in winter, winter items in summer) go on the shelf only if there are fewer than 20 in-season items, and they are placed at the end. The season switches automatically.
Full shelf. A platform’s products appear in a category only as a full set of 20. We do not show incomplete shelves; a category without a full shelf is listed under “Coming soon” on the home page. If a platform has not sent data, we leave the shelf empty.
Prices, availability and price history
Data is updated every 6 hours. Each price shows when it was updated. Delivery is not included in the price. The current price and availability are those on the platform’s page at the time of purchase.
On the product page we show a price chart: the lowest price of each day according to the shop’s data, which we record ourselves.
Product names are shown in the language the platform provides them in.
Purchase and returns
Your purchase contract is with the platform or with the seller on it. Delivery, warranty and returns are subject to their terms.
Click data
When you press a “Buy” button, we record the product number, the time, your browser (user-agent) and a hash of your IP address with a salt that changes every day. We do not store the IP address itself. This is needed to count clicks. A click counts only if the button was pressed on a page of our site; visits by bots are not counted and are not passed on to the shop.