Leland
I just used it and in the middle of a crucile recovery was forced to pay $40.00 or lose the info recovered. Neat trick, they recover lost files for you, then tell you to pay up to actually get them. Trish

Mike OD
Work in "Do Your Data Recovery"

Robert Garofalo There is a need for less of the silliness amongst smaller 'developers', many of whom pay for the equivalent of what's called an 'OEM Partner License' to pump out software that isn't from them but from a major player. The majors don't need to resort to the kind of daftness witnessed in last Tuesday's GOTD 'Adoreshare' giveaway nor the pictorial felicities of this 'Eassos' offering today, both of which ring alarm bells loud enough for even the most careless computer user to run for the hills.

It has seemed to me, on my various travels, that a fluent English speaker with a facility for penning, er, 'endorsements', could do well to drop in on some of the smaller outfits operating from here:

http://www.tianfusoftwarepark.com/en.html

Sadly, most software users haven't a clue how the global software industry works or how, in the case of the above location, the many dozens of developers (some large, many not) gathered there in that one place are estimated to be responsible for around 75% of China's staggering volume of software output. In truth, most computer users have no idea there's any such place as Chengdu anyway, or that -- going back to the topic of today's giveaway -- the Chengdu Wiyo Tech Development Company is the brains behind EaseUS and that it licenses its stuff for re-sale as re-branded product:

http://www.easeus.com/partner/oem.htm

Whether or not Chengdu Wiyo is wincing at the painful 'Eassos' v 'EaseUS' I've no idea, because it has to be acknowledged that the the two product lines are superficially similar. I'm inclined, however, to the view that today's giveaway offer isn't EaseUS re-badged: Chendu Wiyo is a leading player, via its long-established EaseUS brand, and with sufficient corporate wits to realize that flogging software on the back of pictures of wrong-gender users (including, it seems, rapists) ain't A Good Idea.

Which brings me to today's offer, and GOTD's important role -- because it is important -- in not only providing a service to computer users but to software publishers and developers as well, thanks to the genuine market research value of the GOTD comments thread.

I won't be alone in saying thanks but no thanks for today's offer on the straightforward basis that I'll no more allow into my home an individual of dubious provenance than I'll allow software of dubious provenance onto my computer. And if that message, via GOTD, gets across to outfits like 'Eassos' -- the message that consumers aren't stupid; that they value transparency above mendacity and honesty above deceit -- then maybe, just maybe, the era of the moronic 'testimonial' will come to a close and we'll have a marketplace far less opaque than is currently the case.

MikeR
I always read the GotD comments before trying the software. Sometimes I learn amazing things, like I did here.

I noticed the name similarity and now I know more about this whole deceptive rebranding practice.

I know the gas I buy at one station can be the same as sold by a different station with a different name and price.

I know the medicine I take could have been made in another country and sold in yet another coutry for far less than I pay here, maybe even with the same brand name.

I know this particular "OEM Partner" arrangement is legal too, but ...
Fake testimonials? Insulting.
Name similarity? Isn't that like domain parking, waiting for that typo to begin phishing? Unsavory.

Good job GotD commenters!

I appreciated your comments, MikeR, and found them interesting. It seems we share some of the same opinions. Thanks.

Ed Ecklund
Yes, it reeks highly of typosquatting or brandjacking, both of which are described in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting.

David Murphy
I'm not a big or frequent user of recovery apps, so I can't recommend an alternative that does a much better job sorting potentially found files/folders for you, but they do exist -- I was sort of hoping someone might reply to your post with those alternatives. I know the free Recuva portable I use does color coding, showing you the likelihood of a file being recoverable.

"... before I started a scan I clicked on select file types and blanked all but photo files.

Then you should see just photo files on the 2nd tab of the results, or at least that's how it worked for me.

arttronics
To be fair, they DO have a table comparing the different editions. I found it here: http://www.eassos.com/data-recovery-software.php

And they do essentially have the same features; the substantive difference between them is in the amount of data they allow you to recover. For example, the free edition limits you to less than 1GB.

I just wanted to add (what the hell happened to the "Edit" button?) that I don't think having multiple versions of the program is dishonest, and the chart more or less spells everything out.

But having fake customer testimonials on the homepage certainly isn't honest.

Robert Garofalo
Thank you Robert for posting a link to the comparison page, and my manual web-page spidering skills were not at 100% yesterday. I always aim for fairness.

Besides an Edit Button, a Delete Button would be good, so that I can delete my original comment.

Thank you Eassos for providing a clear product comparison page after all.

Robert, as for me, product testimonials will always be a fake thing, unless it's on Facebook or Twitter from friends that I actually communicate with (vs campaigns that Like or Tweet something artificially.) I suppose it goes back to the days of TV, where the person promoting Tylenol or Bayer Aspirin states "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV". Well, at least that's a form of disclosure. Anyhow you made valid points in your comments about those endorsements, +1 from me too.

Oh, I'd like to add one more thing...
On Eassos's home page, in the "Awards and Reviews" section about halfway down the page, they have some customer testimonials consisting of short blurbs with photos. One of them purports to be from "Adrian:"
Thank you for the great software which helped me recovered photos from my SD card after it got formatted by accident. Thanks again.
Hey, there's nothing wrong with that, right? Except for "Adrian's" thumbnail pic, they have a lovely photo of Monica Belluci, the famous Italian movie actress.

I almost spit my coffee all over my laptop. Anyway, my confidence in Eassos just went way up! I mean, Monica Belluci is a fan! I wonder why she didn't use her real name though...?

Priceless.

Robert Garofalo

Good for a smile but the Adrian may have used that photo for his own as his joke. Doesn't have to be a deception on the part of the company. I am sure I'd not recognize that Monica if she ran up and bit me. Others are the same, no doubt.

Paul
Although what you say is remotely plausible, since they don't state how and from where they are obtaining the testimonials, it would be difficult to say for sure.

It's curious though, if someone sends them an unsolicited testimonial, are they sending a photograph along with it? Not likely. If Easos receives a testimonial, are they reaching out to the sender to ask for a photo to use on their website? Could be, but that sure doesn't sound likely either. And I don't see any user forum on the website, where they could potentially grab profile pics or an avatar, so where exactly do they get those pictures from?

The most likely explanation, IMHO, is that they themselves are concocting the testimonials (the bad grammar is an additional clue) and then slapping photos that they grab randomly around the web on there.

Robert Garofalo
Purely, Totally FWIW, maybe I've gotten cynical over the years, but I can count on one hand the number of companies I've encountered that have *consistently* been honest in their claims & marketing.

I'm NOT saying you shouldn't feel that way Robert, or have & share a decent cause for a laugh or three.

I am very mildly suggesting that if someone were to completely avoid all dishonesty in marketing, they wouldn't use a car or truck, would have a hard time stocking the pantry, would almost never watch TV etc. ;)

Robert Garofalo
As soon as I saw the company name, I thought of them as knocking off EaseUS' software, so I am not even going to download anything from Eassos. Ever. EaseUS is a good company with good products. Can not say the same for a company (Eassos) that gives itself a similar name to confuse people, and I won't even venture to go to where they could possibly steal from another company.

mike
Yeah, I agree with you mike; I think, unfortunately, that many --or most--companies lie in their advertising.
Which is why it feels good to attack and expose the ones who are particularly inept at it!

shadow seeker
Actually, it doesn't need a usb device to be installed on. Another partition at the pc will do.

Thanks a lot for today's generous offer. However, I'm covered by an almost simular program, EaseUs Data Recovery Wizard - perhaps a remote long lost cousin to, Eassos ;o)

Allan

Can you put this program on a usb stick and use it from that

jim
"Can you put this program on a usb stick and use it from that"

Eassos Recovery is portable so yes.

I think it might be helpful to point out that if/when you only have one OS installed on a system or device, what you might be after with a recovery app [or apps] is a bootable solution, that will run an independent OS where you can run that recovery software. That's because if you want to recover files/folders on the same disk partition as Windows, running that copy of Windows might destroy some of the files you're hoping to recover.

jim
Everything is possible, if you have the software to make programs portable. Otherwise, there's lot's of portable stuff out there. Take a look here : http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/System/Backup-and-Recovery/Portable-Wise-Data-Recovery.shtml

keith
I just made up a mail-adres:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10366431/_GOTD/EassosRecovery401_20160304/Win10/Registratie.png

Ashamp
"I just made up a mail-adres:"

Yeah, I think if there is someone actually using the email address: mike@aol.com, they must truly hate me for all the spam I've sent their way over the years.