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It gets even worse than that. Many pages are charged by the number of results or the length of the page generated. But you don't know the price until you load i

It gets even worse than that. Many pages are charged by the number of results or the length of the page generated. But you don't know the price until you load it and see how long the page is. Most have a cap of $3, but some don't, so when you press that button to load the next page, sometimes it just costs $100 and you really had no way to know it'd happen until it did. PACER is terrible.

xxpor 6y ago
There's even a warning that you should make sure to make your query as specific as possible, because if you screw up and it returns 100 pages, sucks to be you. There's basically 0 chance this would be legal if you're a private company.
- thephyber 6y ago
  > There's basically 0 chance this would be legal if you're a private company. In the USA it would absolutely be legal and you would be bound by a binding arbitration clause and a non-disclosure + non-disparagement clause. You might even be bound by a license / ToS which prevents you from comparing the capabilities of that system against a better system[1]. [1] https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-why-you-rarely-see-database-benchmarks/ https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-...
- linuxftw 6y ago
  This is what we call the "Visit the emergency room" business model, totally legal.
  - xxpor 6y ago
    Ouch, good point.