Buying and sellsing competitor analysis

[dan.ferguson]

Hi all,

I was wondering whether buying and selling basic competitive analysis (e.g. list of service providers with their service prices) is legal?

Prices are not published on the internet but you have to find them out speaking with every single account manager.

Are there issues with privacy?

Thanks

 

[IANL]

My View would be. If you get prices over the phone or in writing, so long as the quote does not say that this quote is confidential to to addressee then it's open and in the public domain.

"Which Magazine" and other publications do it all the time. As do price many websites.

Hope that helps

Ian

 

[dan.ferguson]

My View would be. If you get prices over the phone or in writing, so long as the quote does not say that this quote is confidential to to addressee then it's open and in the public domain.

"Which Magazine" and other publications do it all the time. As do price many websites.

Hope that helps

Ian

Thanks Ian,

I thought the same. At the end of day all the information is available on the internet. It's just a matter of wrap them in one place and sell it.

 

[McKenna Hughes]

Hi, the general rule is that if the information is easliy accessible publicly and requires little or no specialist effort (apart from the gathering of the information) then this is acceptable from a legal perspective. Hope this helps.

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[astutiumRob]

Are there issues with privacy?

Do you have to sign/agree to an NDA or are told the prices are confidential ?

 

[dan.ferguson]

Do you have to sign/agree to an NDA or are told the prices are confidential ?

Not at all. I simply rang them up and asked "how much for X?"