Store rating, store age and reorder rate are the platform's own figures, not vendor claims. Reorder rate is the most telling: it is the share of buyers who came back. Shipping time is the vendor's own quote where they gave one, and the platform's estimate, marked "listed", where they did not.
Best vetted is scored out of 100 and combines store rating, store age, review count, response time, reorder rate and transit time. It is scaled by how many of those a vendor actually has, so a thin record cannot outrank a complete one on a lucky average. Expect real numbers in the 40s to 60s: 100 means excellent on every axis at once, which no supplier here is.
A rating counts for as much as its sample supports: 5.0 from two buyers is not a better rating than 4.8 from eighty-seven, only a less certain one, so ratings are weighted by review count before scoring. Every axis is judged against a fixed standard rather than against the other vendors, because a shop with one year and two reviews is thin whether or not a rival is thinner, and a 20% reorder rate is respectable whether or not someone else hit 46%.
Price is not part of that score. It is shown as its own figure instead: est. landed cost per set, only ever computed when a vendor has quoted both the price and the freight, so withholding one cannot make a vendor look cheaper than someone who disclosed both. A low price says nothing about whether a vendor is trustworthy, which is the question the score answers.
Grey figures come from the listing. Black figures were quoted directly. Blank means asked and not answered.
Wheels are described by construction and geometry, never as another maker's product.
Open listing links are affiliate links, and we earn a commission on orders placed through them. The rate is the same for every supplier here, and whether a supplier has an affiliate link is not an input to the score, the sort, or which suppliers get listed.
How the vetting works in full