The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Cities’ Data - In These Times

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: José María Mateos <chema () rinzewind org>
> Date: November 21, 2018 at 4:54:12 AM GMT+9
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: The HQ2 Scam: How Amazon Used a Bidding War to Scrape Cities’ Data - In These Times
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> For IP, if you want.
>
> http://inthesetimes.com/article/21571/the-hq2-scam-how-amazon-used-a-bidding-war-to-scrape-cities-data
>
> "Amazon now has a treasure trove of non-public information about America’s future, in addition to knowing how much 
> cash cities are willing to part with to land an Amazon facility. And it got all that, along with a giant PR benefit 
> from the bidding war, for free.
>
> If you knew a city was going to build a road in a particular place, you could make a lot of money buying up the real 
> estate there. Imagine that on a national scale and you can see how Amazon will grow far wealthier from the data it 
> collected than even the raw dollars extracted from HQ2’s big winners. In fact, this was the real reason Amazon 
> orchestrated the whole charade."
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org



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