Is RMB2000 a rip-off for data recovery?

Hi,

A friend of mine lost data on HDD in a Vaio laptop, supposedly after
resetting the machine during defragmentation. Friend took it to a data
recovery shop, and they supposedly recovered the data, but they claim
they had to move the medium to another similar unit under clean-room
conditions etc., which does not seem consistient with the potential
damage my friend might have done to this disk (also with the fact that
they returned the disk and

They are trying to charge RMB2000 for the recovered data. Is this a
reasonable price for such a service in Beijing?

Thanks
Greg
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