Can An IT Services Comparison Website Ever Work?
How can it ever be possible to compare the price of data recovery without understanding the root of the problem?
The data recovery sector has always been a very competitive arena with companies vying for the competitive edge and employing questionable tactics to get their websites up the ranking or even clicking on competitors adwords campaigns. But the latest reported tactics seem to take the biscuit.
Site offering customers a cross section of competitive pricing have been around for years and are really useful to find the best internet or even street price of a particular product.
Doing a cost comparison is reasonably easy especially if you are comparing out of the box products, and /or you have a number of manufacturers or suppliers that are happy to supply their best price to the comparison website.
So how can you possible do a cost comparison website when it comes to a service without first establishing the actual problem in the first place. Also if other data recovery companies are not happy to sign up to such a service even if you could conceivably do a fair comparison, how could it it be fair if the very industry that is benig compared does not buy into the concept of services cost comparison websites, and indeed why should they?
The big loser here will of course be the customer who will no doubt be pretty desparate to find a solution and get their data back especially if it is business data or treasured family photo’s or other important information. They will be led to believe they are getting the best price based on independent data when quite the opposite is true.
Most reputable data recovery companies will of course not wish to see customers put in this situation.
Without question data recovery requirements and solutions will vary from case to case and drive to drive, and each recovery will need to take into account many other deciding factors as well that without an initial evaluation simply cannot be properly assessed.
Product comparison websites are very well suited to products for example comparing the cost of one hard drive to exactly the same drive from another supplier, but when it comes to any solution based service be it data recovery or even automobile repair, until you know the root cause of the problem it will be impossible to truly compare one business against another.
Product comparison websites of data recovery services simply will never be accurate as not enough details are known upfront and actual solutions can be too varied so these comparison sites should be avoided or taken with a big dose of salt.