Editorial Guidelines & Fact-Checking Policy

1. Mission and Editorial Independence

PS5 Restock India (ps5restock.com) was established to provide transparent, accurate, and real-time console restock intelligence, pricing history, and buyer guides to Indian gamers. We maintain strict editorial independence from retailers, brand sponsors, and manufacturers.

Our editorial content and automated stock telemetry are created without editorial input, pre-approval, or censorship from Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Amazon India, Flipkart, Croma, Reliance Digital, ShopAtSC, or Vijay Sales.

2. Stock Data Verification & Telemetry Standards

We combine automated high-frequency edge crawlers with multi-layered verification checks to ensure data integrity:

• Authorized Retailers Only: We monitor official authorized retail portals in India. We do not index unauthorized grey-market sellers, unverified third-party marketplace merchants selling above MSRP, or parallel imports without Sony India official warranty.
• Automated Edge Polling: Our edge workers verify stock status and pricing at high frequency directly from retailer endpoints and product pages.
• Community Sighting Verification: User-submitted local offline store sightings are initially flagged as unverified and must pass community reputation and upvote thresholds before appearing on the public feed.

3. Anti-Scalping & Fair Pricing Policy

A core tenet of our platform is the fight against artificial price gouging and console scalping. We strictly enforce the following rules:

• We never display, promote, or link to consoles sold above Sony's official Maximum Retail Price (MRP).
• Price drop alerts are only triggered for genuine official discounts and verified bank offer promotions.
• We actively monitor and filter out listings that bundle unnecessary forced high-margin accessories at inflated prices.

4. Fact-Checking and Review Process

All buying guides, game reviews, retailer comparison articles, and console deal breakdowns undergo a rigorous multi-step editorial review:

• Primary Source Verification: Specifications, warranty policies, and baseline MRPs are verified against official Sony India press releases and product documentation.
• Bank Offer Accuracy: Card discounts and EMI schemes are cross-checked directly with participating banking partner portals (HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Axis).
• Regular Auditing: Price history graphs and retailer links are audited weekly to ensure stale or dead links are removed or redirected.

5. Corrections Policy

We are committed to swift and transparent corrections when errors occur. If a price change, retailer policy update, or stock status error is identified:

• We investigate the report immediately upon notification.
• Factual errors in articles and guides are updated promptly with an editorial note if the modification is substantive.
• Crawler false positives are rectified in our scraping engine within minutes of detection.

To submit a correction or dispute stock information, please email contact@ps5restock.com or use our Contact Us form with the subject "Data Correction".

6. Advertising & Affiliate Transparency

In accordance with the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) guidelines and international disclosure regulations:

• All sponsored content or paid display advertisements are explicitly demarcated with clear labels such as "Advertisement" or "Sponsored".
• Outbound affiliate links are disclosed on relevant pages and detailed in our Affiliate Disclosure.
• Commercial partnerships never dictate stock availability status or algorithmic rankings.