We don't sell placements or leads today; if that changes, paid slots will be labelled and will never affect price data or rankings.
Why You Can Trust FairCost
We are asking you to trust pricing data. That is hard. Here is exactly how we earn that trust.
How FairCost makes money
We don't sell placements or leads today; if that changes, paid slots will be labelled and will never affect price data or rankings.
Listings never affect data
The editorial policy applies to any future paid slot. FairCost does not sell placements or leads today. No separate team or implemented commercial separation is claimed.
Why prices are currently labelled as estimates
Existing price guides contain modelling assumptions. Source documents have not been reconciled. The price badge identifies the basis of the actual displayed numbers.
How submissions are verified
Published consumer cohorts require approved evidence, a recorded ABR check, a named internal reviewer and passed duplicate/outlier screening. Only written quotes, invoices and receipts are accepted for these statistics; quotes and paid records are kept apart.
How we prevent manipulation
Duplicate and outlier flags exclude records from published cohorts. We do not claim that IP analysis, reputation weighting or freshness decay powers the displayed figures.
How often data updates
Observed figures show the date they were calculated and the service-date window. Page caching can delay updates. No instant-publication or quarterly-release guarantee is made.
Provider right of reply
Contact FairCost with a correction and supporting evidence. A price comparison alone is not a finding about a provider.
Publication threshold: 10 matching submissions
Modelled estimates have no measured sample size. Unavailable counts remain unknown. A city estimate is not evidence of a suburb market rate.
What we refuse to do
Sell user contact information. Allow pay-for-rank in pricing data. Suppress negative pricing signals. Present estimates as guarantees. Hide our methodology. Accept sponsored content that looks like editorial.
Questions? Read our full methodology, see our editorial independence policy, or get in touch.