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Ask HN: What do I do with competitor pricing data?

Posted by eclecticsceptic on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have designed, engineered and put into production an extensive database of competitor pricing data in a financial commodity product (e.g. credit cards, loans, other consumer financial space).Other than simple competitive intelligence/reporting (for exanple this competitor price is trending up/down, competitors of this segment are behaving in a given way) how can this data be best utilised?For...

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