How we list providers
Our service pages are meant to help you shortlist someone, not to tell you who is "the best". We would rather show three providers we actually checked than thirty we copied from somewhere else.
What gets a provider listed
A provider only goes on a service page when we can check its details from a source we can point to. That means an official register where one exists (for example EMA's ELISE for electricians or MOM's EA Directory for maid agencies) or the provider's own website. Every listing shows where the details came from and the date we checked them.
Being on an official register is a basic check, not a recommendation. If we haven't checked a licence yet we say so on the listing, and you should check it yourself before you hire.
What we don't do
- We don't make up ratings, star scores or reviews.
- We don't copy review text from Google or other sites.
- We don't rank providers as "best" or "top". Lists are in no particular order.
- We don't publish phone numbers or prices that we can't find on the provider's own site or an official source.
If we ever show a Google rating it will be labelled as Google's, with the review count and the date we looked. And it will never be our own score.
Keeping things up to date
Businesses move, close and change prices. We recheck listings from time to time and remove any we can't confirm anymore. If something looks wrong let us know and we'll look at it.
How we make money
cheapandgood.sg is free to read. We pay for it in two ways:
- Ads. Some pages show display ads from Google AdSense.
- Sponsored spots. Businesses can pay for a spot at the top of a service page. These are always labelled "Sponsored", sit apart from the main list, and their links are marked as sponsored. Paying doesn't get a business into the main list or change what we write about it.
Other links to providers are plain links. We don't get paid when you click or hire them. Interested in a sponsored spot? See advertise with us.
Deals and store locator
Our deals come from the official promo pages of each store, bank or telco, and the store locator uses each brand's own outlet list. Each page shows when it was last checked.