<story><title>Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/gaming-the-system-how-gamestop-stock-surged-1500-in-nine-months/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;GameStop’s most valuable asset is their database of tens of millions of PowerUp Rewards members that no other competitor has the ability to replicate. GameStop will be able to leverage this data to become a fierce e-commerce competitor over time and has many unexplored avenues to monetize the data.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, fuck selling products to customers, you&amp;#x27;ve got a bunch of &lt;i&gt;consumer data&lt;/i&gt; you can &lt;i&gt;monetize&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bpicolo</author><text>&amp;gt; no other competitor has the ability to replicate&lt;p&gt;Except Amazon, and Microsoft, and Nintendo, and Sony, and Vale, and Epic, and ...&lt;p&gt;What am I missing? What&amp;#x27;s interesting about their purchaser data?</text></comment>
<story><title>Gaming the system: How GameStop stock surged</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/gaming-the-system-how-gamestop-stock-surged-1500-in-nine-months/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>floren</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;GameStop’s most valuable asset is their database of tens of millions of PowerUp Rewards members that no other competitor has the ability to replicate. GameStop will be able to leverage this data to become a fierce e-commerce competitor over time and has many unexplored avenues to monetize the data.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, fuck selling products to customers, you&amp;#x27;ve got a bunch of &lt;i&gt;consumer data&lt;/i&gt; you can &lt;i&gt;monetize&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>colpabar</author><text>The silver lining that I pretend to see is maybe now that consumer data &amp;quot;e-commerce&amp;quot; is so common, we&amp;#x27;ll get some sort of government interaction. Taxes, new laws, something worse, who knows. But _hopefully_ now that it&amp;#x27;s so prevalent, the general public will become more aware and take it into account when voting.</text></comment>