{
  "title": "Guarantee eligibility comparison method",
  "checked": "2026-11-07",
  "market": "United States, direct brand ecommerce, US English",
  "frame": [
    {
      "id": "B01",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "Glossier",
      "homepage": "https://www.glossier.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B02",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "The Ordinary",
      "homepage": "https://theordinary.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B03",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "ILIA",
      "homepage": "https://iliabeauty.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B04",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "Kosas",
      "homepage": "https://kosas.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B05",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "Tower 28",
      "homepage": "https://www.tower28beauty.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B06",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "Saie",
      "homepage": "https://saiehello.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B07",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "Rare Beauty",
      "homepage": "https://www.rarebeauty.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B08",
      "category": "beauty",
      "brand": "MERIT",
      "homepage": "https://www.meritbeauty.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B09",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Native",
      "homepage": "https://www.nativecos.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B10",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Dr. Squatch",
      "homepage": "https://www.drsquatch.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B11",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Harrys",
      "homepage": "https://www.harrys.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B12",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Billie",
      "homepage": "https://mybillie.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B13",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Blume",
      "homepage": "https://www.blume.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B14",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Quip",
      "homepage": "https://www.getquip.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B15",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "Boka",
      "homepage": "https://www.boka.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B16",
      "category": "personal care",
      "brand": "by Humankind",
      "homepage": "https://byhumankind.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B17",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "Ritual",
      "homepage": "https://ritual.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B18",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "AG1",
      "homepage": "https://drinkag1.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B19",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "Seed",
      "homepage": "https://seed.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B20",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "Thorne",
      "homepage": "https://www.thorne.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B21",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "OLLY",
      "homepage": "https://www.olly.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B22",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "HUM",
      "homepage": "https://www.humnutrition.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B23",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "Nutrafol",
      "homepage": "https://nutrafol.com/"
    },
    {
      "id": "B24",
      "category": "supplements",
      "brand": "Needed",
      "homepage": "https://thisisneeded.com/"
    }
  ],
  "selection": "Existing purposive frame, eight beauty/eight personal care/eight supplements; no population prevalence or sales weighting",
  "unit": "Brands and their public policy statements, not purchases, refunds or parcels",
  "counts": {
    "retained_brands": 24,
    "readable_return_or_guarantee_records": 21,
    "US_qualified_readable_records": 20,
    "explicit_first_order_restrictions": 3,
    "clock_purchase_or_order": 12,
    "clock_receipt_or_delivery": 5,
    "clock_ambiguous": 2,
    "clock_not_stated": 1,
    "records_with_conditional_store_or_gift_credit": 6
  },
  "fields": [
    "order/channel/customer/product condition scope",
    "opened/unopened routes",
    "first purchase/repeat and subscription rules",
    "quantity/claim limits",
    "request and send-by deadlines and starting event",
    "physical return",
    "refund instrument",
    "outbound/return-shipping deductions",
    "source URL, checked date and concise clause locator",
    "unresolved fields and exclusions"
  ],
  "comparison_unit": "Retained brands; verified-US readable policy subset only for comparative field counts. Multiple conditional routes are stored within a brand and never counted as multiple brands.",
  "source_basis": "Official public policies, FAQ and shipping pages captured or checked 7 November 2026. Direct URLs and concise source locators accompany the public records.",
  "coding": "Record the refund or credit route with its eligibility conditions. Count a brand once when at least one stated route offers store credit or gift credit. A refund to the original card and a future-order discount are separate remedies.",
  "limitations": [
    "Existing purposive frame, not representative US market prevalence.",
    "Unknown and ambiguous fields remain unknown or ambiguous, never silently No or zero.",
    "Single-date collection, no policy-change finding follows.",
    "No test purchase, refund request, SKU-specific checkout, actual delivery or merchant-outcome measurement.",
    "Public terms may change; follow the direct source for the applicable current order."
  ]
}