Pricele

Editorial policy

Pricele publishes numbers about money, which means the only thing it really has to sell is whether you can trust them. This page sets out who decides what gets published, the test a figure has to pass, and what happens when one fails after the fact.

Last updated: August 16, 2026

Who writes this

One person: Flavius Cojocaru, who compiles the data, writes the guides, builds the site and answers the mail. There is no editorial team, no freelance pool and no content agency, and where a page carries a byline it is that person’s.

Saying so plainly is the point. A site that publishes compiled figures under no name at all is indistinguishable from a scraper, and you have no way to tell whether anyone checked anything. The about page has the longer version and the contact routes.

How a price gets published

A figure has to clear four things before it goes into the table. Anything that fails one of them is left out rather than estimated, which is why the price grid has holes in it: several countries carry only a handful of the items in the catalogue.

  1. It has a named public source. Not “widely reported”, not a figure lifted from another aggregator that does not say where it got it. A publication, an index, a statistics agency, something a reader can open.
  2. The source is consistent across countries. One item is priced from one source for every country that has it. A Big Mac in Norway and a Big Mac in Egypt come from the same index, or neither goes in. Mixing sources within an item produces a comparison that measures the sources rather than the countries.
  3. The unit is the same everywhere. A litre, a dozen, a kilo, one cup. Where a country sells an item in a different pack size, the figure is normalised to the site’s unit and the normalisation is stated, or the row is dropped.
  4. It survives a sanity check. Every row is compared with its neighbours and with the same country’s other items. A figure that would make a country an outlier by a factor of two gets traced back to the source before it is allowed to stand, and is usually a unit error.

Which specific source sits behind each item, and when it was last pulled, is on the methodology page.

What we will not do

These are standing rules rather than aspirations, and they are the reason the site is smaller than it could be.

  • No invented rows. A missing price stays missing. Interpolating from a neighbouring country, or from the same country’s other items, would produce a number that looks exactly as authoritative as a real one.
  • No auto-generated articles. Every guide on this site is written and edited by hand, by the person named above, and published only once it says something that is not already the first result for the same question. Drafts stay unindexed and off the guides index until then.
  • No pages built to be counted. The reference pages exist because a table of that shape is useful. None of them is spun up per keyword, and the country pages carry written notes precisely so that they are not the same page thirty-three times.
  • No paid placement. Nobody has ever paid to have an item, a country or a link included, and if that ever changes it will be labelled on the page it affects.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, we want to know, and the fastest route is an email to flaviuscojocaru19@gmail.com naming the page and the number. A link to the source you think is right turns a week of checking into an afternoon.

What happens then:

  1. Every report gets read by the person who compiled the data. Not a support queue.
  2. A figure that is clearly wrong, or that we cannot re-verify against its source, is pulled from the site rather than left up while it is investigated. An absent row is better than a wrong one.
  3. Corrections to a published guide are made in the text and the page’s updated date changes with them. Where the correction changes what the piece argued rather than a detail, it is noted at the foot of the article instead of quietly rewritten.
  4. You get a reply either way, including when we conclude the original figure was right.

Updates and freshness

Prices go stale. Each item is refreshed when its source publishes a new edition, which for the indices behind most of this site means once or twice a year rather than continuously. The methodology page names the edition each item currently uses, so a figure can always be dated.

Guides carry the date they were published and, where they have been revised, the date of the revision. We do not re-date a piece to make it look current; a 2026 article that has not been touched still says 2026.

How the site is funded

Advertising, served through Google AdSense, and nothing else. There are no affiliate links anywhere on the site, no sponsored posts, no paid inclusions and no data sold to anyone. Nobody buying an ad has any say over what the guides argue or which figures appear, and the ad network has no visibility into either before it runs.

Ad units are kept off the game board while a puzzle is in play and are never placed where a mis-tap would register as a click. The data side of advertising is covered in the privacy policy.

Use of AI tools

Stating this explicitly, because the honest answer is not “none”. Software-assisted tooling is used the way a spellchecker or a spreadsheet is: to draft the site’s code, to cross-check arithmetic, and to catch clumsy sentences.

It is not used to produce published text unsupervised, and it is never the source of a figure. Every number on this site is taken from the named source it cites and checked by hand, and every guide is read line by line by Flavius Cojocaru before it is published. A sentence no human has read does not go on the site.