&gt; The point is that the more data they have, the more valuable and &quot;accurate&quot; their analysis is<p>This is covered by my comment that participating in research should be voluntary.<p>&gt; So your complaint of &quot;why don&#x27;t they just sell it at the cost plus a margin&quot; doesn&#x27;t work here.<p>Yes, my complaint makes perfect sense here. They are selling below cost price to build themselves a bigger market. This is not a fair way of doing business, in my opinion. The fact that you are framing this as &quot;we are paying you to help us build a bigger market share&quot; does not make a difference.<p>In my opinion, everything that is being built by crowdsourcing belongs in the public domain. It is not fair to have one company keeping that information hostage.