Background
You seem to have an important (for you, at least) matter that you want to understand in detail? Good for you!
You believe that you need to ask us to spend our time filling out your questionnaire?
Perhaps it takes “just three minutes”, or perhaps it´s “only 15 minutes”?
Can you imagine how many requests like this we receive per day? From governments, organizations, private consultants, polling institutions, universities, researchers, students, etc…
Our (we believe: quite fair) questions to you are?
- How do we invoice the time we have spent reading, evaluating, understanding and answering your request?
- How do we potentially benefit in other ways than the purely monetary, e.g. do we get access to the crunched date before everyone else?
Our assumptions
- You get your time paid for! Correct?
- Your consultants (if you have hired some to collect and/or crunch the collected data) get their time paid for! Correct?
- Our data adds value to whatever you want to investigate – otherwise, why would you ask? Correct?
general observations
- We have to read whatever you have sent to us! That does not seem to be included in your time estimates? Why?
- You don´t seem to offer any compensation for the time we spend, so you consider that our time and data are for free? What led you to that assumption?
- We seem to be the only one in this setup that work for free! Is that correct? And is it fair?
- If you do not want to compensate us for the time required to submit our data, we take it as a sign that our date has no value for you! That´s logical, right?
Our conclusion
If you don´t have any good answers to the above, please refrain from contacting us again!
Disclaimer
If any of the above came off as passive-aggressive, that wasn’t the intention: The goal was to appear aggressive in the most actively way possible!