QuietHike / Methodology
How we verify a change before logging it
Every entry on QuietHike goes through the same four steps before it's published. No step is skipped for a vendor we like, dislike, or have never heard of.
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Catch it
A price change surfaces from a vendor's own changelog, a community forum thread, a support article update, or a discrepancy noticed while researching elsewhere.
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Verify against the vendor directly
Before anything gets logged, we check the vendor's own current pricing page — never a third-party blog alone. If the vendor's own pages disagree with each other, we say so rather than picking one.
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Cross-check the "before" price
The old price gets the same scrutiny as the new one — sourced from an archived page, a prior independent pricing tracker, or the vendor's own changelog, never guessed.
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Log it plainly
What changed, what it actually means for a real buyer, and where to verify it yourself. No affiliate framing, no "which plan should you pick" — just what happened.
Real example from the log
What the source tags mean
[VENDOR] means the source is the vendor's own page. [3P] means a third-party source — a forum, a changelog mirror, an independent tracker. [3P — disputed] marks a figure we could source but couldn't confirm directly against the vendor — published as-is, but flagged rather than silently treated as fact. [UNABLE TO VERIFY] means we found a claim but couldn't confirm it anywhere reliable, so it's noted rather than asserted.
If we get something wrong
We don't quietly edit it. A correction stays attached to the original entry with what changed and why, and it's also listed on the Corrections page so nothing gets memory-holed.