Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Acetate Clubis free to read because it is supported by affiliate links. When you click a link to a frame and buy it, we may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you. That commission is how the site pays for itself. It does not change which frames we recommend, the order we rank them, or what we say about them.

Amazon Associates

Acetate Club is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Amazon is our default retailer, and most frame links on the site are tagged Amazon links using our associate tag, t5sunglasses-20.

We may add other retailer or brand programs over time. If we do, the same rule applies: a link earns us a commission only through a program we have actually joined, and we would rather send you to the option that’s better for you — cheaper, in stock, better warranty — than to the one that pays us more.

How to spot the links

Outbound links to a retailer are marked as sponsored and open in a new tab, and every buy button carries an #adlabel and a link back to this page. Prices shown next to those buttons are pulled live from the retailer and stamped with the date they were pulled; where we don’t have a live price, the button says “Check price on Amazon” instead of showing a number.

Why you can trust the recommendations anyway

The reasoning behind a pick is identical whether or not a link earns us anything. We regularly recommend the cheaper frame, and we’ll tell you when a popular brand isn’t what it claims — a polycarbonate frame sold as if it were acetate, for instance. We do not accept payment for reviews, we don’t take “sponsored” placements dressed up as editorial, and we publish no fabricated reviews or ratings. How we actually evaluate frames is documented on our how we choose page, and the standards we hold ourselves to are in our editorial policy.

Not eye-care advice

Acetate Clubis written by an eyewear enthusiast, not an optician or optometrist, and nothing on the site is professional eye-care advice. Sunglasses are sun protection, not a substitute for an eye exam — for a vision concern or a prescription, please see a qualified professional.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want to know whether a specific link earns us a commission, ask us— we’ll tell you straight.