What We Try to Offer
What "Buying From The Induction Site" Means
We here neither make nor stock nor deliver anything--not induction-cooking equipment, not cookware, not cookbooks. But neither, in reality, do a great many web sites that "sell" such items. What they and we are is what are called "affiliates": we act as a "front end" for orders actually processed by some large specialist in the goods being ordered. Perhaps the best-known example is books and Amazon.com: we, like who knows how many zillions of other sites, take "orders" for books--in our case, cookbooks--that are passed directly to Amazon, which fills the orders from their stock. It's the same on this site with the induction-cooking equipment and accessories we "sell".
Why would you want to go through this chain instead of buying direct from the end supplier? As with all affiliates, we hope you will buy through us because we think that you will find that shopping here is in several ways easier and more pleasant than anywhere else.
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We should emphasize that, as with all affiliate relations, when you shop here
There is absolutely zero "cost"--in any form--for buying from here.
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Why Go Through The Induction Site?
What, then, are those advantages?
§ First, we have labored hard throughout this site to make you an informed induction-cooking consumer in the general sense, by providing extensive unbiased information and explanations for every aspect of the field. Moreover, we maintain far and away the most complete database to be had on every item of induction-cooking equipment out there, residential or commercial, in a standardized form. And we have special pages and tables to facilitate your comparing units to like units.
§ Second, we have tried to present, for each model we offer, all the available information in a clean, simple format. Most retailers just present what they can cop from the manufacturer's own site--most retailers have to do that because they are selling many thousands of very different items from dozens or hundreds of makers. We are not: we specialize in one kind of thing that we know something about. We hunt about for data unit by unit till we think we have everything important that there is to be known about that unit, and we present it all for you on that unit's "buy" page here, including besides descriptions a standard-form data table. We feel you should know exactly what you are considering buying, so we try to give you as much information as there is.
(For example, in the world of ever-shifting appliance prices, no price we quote you is ever more than one hour old--unless our special software that communicates with our suppliers encounters difficulty, in which case it uses the last price it correctly obtained. Always double-check that the price shown on the actual supplier's buy page is what you expect; if it is not what we show, the supplier-shown price is what governs the transaction. But please let us know of any such discrepancy, so that we can investigate and correct the problem at once.)
§ Third, although once you place an order we here are nominally out of the loop, and your dealings are with the actual provider, we nevertheless will--in the unlikely case that any difficulty ever develops with an order--try to help as much as we can, interceding with whatever entity is appropriate. Just let us know. We're not superhuman, and can't guarantee to accomplish anything you couldn't, but we'll be there for you; we don't walk away from our visitors. We're not "just" an order taker.
While we certainly hope that you will eventually buy induction equipment--and that when you do, you will buy it here--this site was not set up as and is not a "shill", to coax you into buying this or that brand or particular unit, and we think that as you roam the pages here that will be plain. Indeed, we cannot and do not "sell" every unit made, nor even all that are normally available in North America, though doubtless we could. We only offer units here if we believe that we are offering them at the best price and terms available on the internet. That needs amplification. We did not select our partners on the basis of who was available or who paid the best commissions. For every brand available, we first searched out the lowest price and best terms we could find for it, then looked for some affiliation that would allow us to carry it at that price and under those terms. That is why we do not carry every brand, even though some we do not carry are available through other affiliate programs. If we can't offer it under the best terms available, we won't offer it at all; it's that simple. In fact, on some brands, we even split up the various models between two suppliers, always to be sure you're seeing the best prices possible.
Whether or not you ever buy anything through us, we thank you for visiting the site, and for at least reading our little appeal here.
(The complete list of all the induction-cooking products we offer appears farther down this page.)
Our Partners
Induction-Cooking Hardware
So far, we are partnered--for actual induction-cooking units--with Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center, SelectAppliance.com, and with Amazon.com. (Amazon works with numerous "Amazon Merchants", who all have agreed to Amazon's terms and guarantees.) All these businesses are well-respected operations, else we here wouldn't use them.
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Some references for SelectAppliance.com:
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Some references for Universal Appliance and Kitchen Center:
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Some references for Amazon.com:
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Cookware
We now have both cast iron and enamelware (both made by Lodge), and stainless-steel "clad" cookware by All-Clad.
Cookbooks and Other Books
We have long been an Amazon affiliate. Note, please, that we are actually affiliated with all six Amazon national divisions: thus, if you reside outside the reach of the U.S. division, you can locate and order books from an Amazon division in Canada, or the U.K., or Germany, or France, or Japan, as may be most convenient for you.
Moreover, it is our experience that for used books, Abebooks often has a wider selection and lower prices to be found, so we offer access to used books as an Abebooks affiliate (even though we'd probably make a little more money offering through Amazon).
