"This deal was about purchasers looking for business synergies, strategic advantages, blocking their competitors and obtaining broadcast content".
Though mooncakes are rarely eaten by the buyer – they are generally destined as gifts for friends, employees or business contacts – they say a lot about the purchaser.
"Take your profits," says Black. "I don't know much about the purchaser".
While the popularity of a refrigerator brand may depend on technological change or the quality of the item, other products, such as cars or clothing, often carry symbolic meaning about the purchaser's identity.
In fact, Apple has been inserting simple watermarks into digital audio files that include personal information about the purchaser on some files sold over iTunes so those files can be traced back to their purchaser in the case of unauthorized distribution".
Included are relevant statistics regarding demographics of timeshare purchasers, how purchasers were prompted to attend a sales presentation, how many presentations they attended before purchasing, hesitations about purchasing, pricing averages, average maintenance fees, owner usage patterns, visitor party characteristics, and community benefits associated with timeshare development.
And here we come precariously to the edge of the slippery slope: Do software developers need to worry about what purchasers might do with their software?
": …because you realize then you would have about 300 purchasers ….
Suppose also that the average Cuban cigar purchaser makes about two purchases a month, the average chat user logs in once a day, and the average conspiracy theorist spends 3 hours a day crawling the hidden web.
Alongside information about the insurance purchaser, Trov can then generate a to-the-second price for insurance.
