Terms, Privacy & Cookies

Last updated: 1 August 2026 · Version 1.0

Terms of use

What this service is

SniperCaddie collects publicly listed prices for golf equipment from third-party marketplaces and retailers, compares each listing against price history it has observed itself, and ranks what it finds. It is an information tool. It does not sell anything, hold stock, take payment, or act as an agent for any seller.

Prices are observations, not offers

Every price shown is the price as last seen by an automated run, which may be minutes or hours old. Prices, postage, stock and seller terms change constantly, and listings are frequently removed. Nothing here is an offer to sell, and no price shown is guaranteed to still be available. Always confirm the price on the seller's own site before buying.

Rankings are estimates, and "errors" are guesses

The tiers — Hole in One, Albatross, Eagle, Birdie, Par, Bogey — are produced by a statistical comparison against a median this tool has calculated from its own limited observations. They are not verified, not endorsed by any seller, and carry no warranty.

The top two tiers explicitly guess that a price may be a mistake. That guess is often wrong. A listing can be cheap because it is damaged, counterfeit, a different variant, missing parts, an overseas shipment with import charges, or a scam. Filters exist to reduce those cases; they do not eliminate them. You are responsible for your own purchasing decisions.

The two percentages

Each deal may show up to two figures, and they measure different things:

• vs market — against the seller's own list price, or against the median of comparable gear where no list price is given. List prices are set by the seller and are frequently inflated; on used, clearance and end-of-line stock a "was" price may bear little relation to what the item ever sold for. A large percentage here is not evidence of a large saving.
• vs site — against the median SniperCaddie has itself observed for that exact product. This is the stronger of the two, but it is empty until enough sightings accumulate, and it reflects only the retailers indexed here.

Neither figure accounts for condition, completeness (missing headcovers, shafts or clubs from a set), specification, shaft or flex, model year, or postage. Used equipment in particular is priced on condition and age, which no automated comparison here can assess. Read the full listing, check the condition and the description, and satisfy yourself of the specification before buying.

No warranty, no liability

The service is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the operator accepts no liability for loss arising from reliance on the information shown — including a price being wrong, a listing being unavailable, a ranking being misleading, or the service being unavailable. Nothing here limits liability for death, personal injury, or fraud where that limitation would be unlawful.

Third-party sellers

All purchases happen on the seller's own platform, under that platform's terms. SniperCaddie has no involvement in the transaction and no ability to resolve disputes, refunds, or delivery problems.

Acceptable use

Don't scrape, resell, or bulk-redistribute the output; don't use it to place automated orders; don't attempt to overload the service. Trade marks and product names belong to their respective owners and are used descriptively.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Privacy

The short version

In its current form SniperCaddie runs locally, has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party scripts. It does not collect personal data about visitors, and there is nothing to sell, share, or lose.

What is stored

• Product data — public listing titles, prices, images, seller display names and URLs, plus the price history the tool derives from them. Seller display names are public marketplace handles, not private contact details.
• On your device — your cookie choice, and (only if you opt in) your filter preferences. See Cookies & storage.
• Server logs — the local server prints run activity to the console. It does not write visitor IP addresses to disk.

If you deploy it publicly

This section stops being accurate the moment it is hosted. A host will log IP addresses; adding accounts, email alerts, or analytics introduces personal data and a UK GDPR lawful basis you must identify, document and disclose. Update this page before, not after.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection. As things stand there is no personal data held to which these could apply; if that changes, requests can be made to the site operator.

Cookies & storage

SniperCaddie sets no cookies. There is no tracking pixel, no analytics tag, no advertising network and no third-party script. The consent notice exists because the site uses browser local storage, which UK PECR treats much like cookies.

Everything stored, in full

• snipercaddie.consent — strictly necessary. Records the choice you made in the consent notice, so you aren't asked on every visit. Stored until you clear it. No consent required for this one, because remembering that you said no is the only way to honour it.
• snipercaddie.prefs — optional (preferences). Your selected tier, gear type and maximum price, so the board looks the same when you return. Only written if you tick the box; deleted immediately if you choose "Essential only".

Changing your mind

Use Cookie settings in the footer at any time, or clear site data in your browser. Declining costs you nothing but the filter memory.

Images load from third parties

Product thumbnails are served from the seller's own image CDN (for example eBay's). Requesting an image tells that CDN your IP address and user agent, as any image on any web page would. No cookies are set by SniperCaddie in the process.

Affiliate disclosure

SniperCaddie currently uses no affiliate links. Outbound links go directly to the seller and earn nothing.

If that changes — the eBay Partner Network being the obvious candidate — this page will say so before any such link goes live, links will be tagged, and the disclosure will appear on the board itself, not buried here. Commission must never influence ranking: the tiers are computed from price data alone, and that must remain true.

Data sources

Data comes from the eBay Browse API under eBay's developer terms, and from retailer product feeds and public product pages. Automated requests honour each site's robots.txt, identify themselves with a descriptive user agent, and are rate-limited per host.

If you operate a site indexed here and want it removed, contact the operator and it will be taken out of the source list.

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