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Courtney G.

Pricing Manager

Medical Practice

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/13/2025

"Flawless Encoding - No Foreign Characters Lost"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

Data is always encoded with UTF-8 and special characters are preserved, which helps with global product listings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

Support hours are limited to weekdays, so urgent weekend requests go unanswered until the new week Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ficstar:

Their value shines most when your product mix or monitoring targets change frequently-very adaptable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ficstar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ficstar doesn't just deliver raw data. They ensure the data is useful. They understand the difference between collecting a price and delivering something actionable. Their team reviews our goals regularly and adjusts the collection strategy to fit. It's a smart, long-term approach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sumit G.

Pricing Manager

Real Estate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/1/2025

"Saves our small marketing department time"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

Get competitor data served up ready made every week so our small team can spend time on campaigns, not research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

If you need real time numbers, you will have to pair this with another tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Sharif K.

Marketing Director

Public Relations and Communications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2025

"Solid Market Intelligence Backed by Web Scraping"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

Ficstar is a dependable service, it is easy to expand and also accurate competitor pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

Ficstar should provide more self service controls for updating crawl specs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ficstar:

Ficstar is a solid option for anyone looking to move away from manual scraping and outdated tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ficstar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ficstar's crawling and data collection services are a key part of our market intelligence stack. We rely on them to track pricing changes across a large volume of SKUs and competitors. The data is always accurate, and the team is responsive when we need to adjust or add new targets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ilia O.

Pricing Manager

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/18/2025

"Responsive team that listens well"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

The team are very responsive and we've witnessed them make adjustments at our requests very quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

The onboarding was a little more back and forth than we anticipated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ficstar:

Ficstar is the perfect option because they are a listening partner Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ficstar solving and how is that benefiting you?

We required a source who would listen and provide solutions to our unique product categories. Ficstar was responsive and ensured that we received what we were looking for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yurii K.

Marketing Manager

Banking

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2025

"Keeps our group from drowning in data"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

Rather than flooding us with spreadsheets, they deliver what we requested. This makes the output much easier to read Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

Filtering can occasionally take you a minute to adjust when you're looking for something new Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Andreas P.

Pricing Manager

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2025

"Reliable Data Driven Pricing"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

Provides structured pricing data that plays nicely with our internal dashboards. They are very timely and meticulous with their comp pricing coverage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

I would like to have a help your self tool for tweaking scraping rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ficstar:

Ideal for teams after a frictionless, fully automated pricing intelligence solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ficstar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Saved from Manual competitor tracking took time and was often inaccurate. We got Ficstar to automate this, providing us daily updates that helped us get our promotions just right and hence increase the profit margins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yuriy M.

Marketing Director

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/19/2025

"Data collection service that saves us time"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

The data sets are clean and structured, saving our analysts from a lot of boring prep work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

They should be a little bit more transparent about their pricing model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ficstar:

Highly recommend for analytics teams looking for data to use right way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ficstar solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to spend almost 50% of our time cleaning dirty data. With Ficstar, that time is returned to analysis, yielding more actionable results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vitaliy B.

Pricing Manager

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/7/2025

"Dependable data for smarter pricing choices"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

The insights provided are consistent, accurate, and neatly compiled. The trends are easy to interpret Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

Would like an alert system for instant notifications on market fluctuations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kate M.

Marketing Director

Manufacturing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/12/2025

"They Detect Pricing Trends before we even noticed"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

They flag unusual trends-like price spikes or product delisting, without us needing to run alerts manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

No direct integration with BI tools which meant an extra step for visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Ficstar:

Ideal for teams looking to feed scraped data into machine learning pipelines or competitive pricing tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ficstar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our company monitors product listings across 12 competitor websites, Ficstar built a robust scraping solution that collects everything from prices and discounts to inventory status. Their delivery is automated and dependable. It fits straight into our data warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Dhrupad K.

Pricing Manager

Banking

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/29/2025

"Keep our product team in the loop"

5/5

What do you like best about Ficstar?

Decent frequency of updates, wide range of product categories covered Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ficstar?

The file formats can be a little restrictive so we reformat before sharing internally Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.