campaign that inspired 238 cities to go to enormous lengths to win the prize, some of it bordering on the absurd. the mayor of kansas city, missouri, wrote 1,000 amazon product reviews and posted a lfdeo of himself doing it. but amazon may be the biggest winner, getting more than $2 billion in tax giveaways, as well as a massive amount of marketing data that the 20 finalists handed over, all of which gives the online retail giant a leg up on its marketing, icipping, and logistics decisions. the cities clearly believe amazon will help them, but if the experience of its home headquarters of seattle is any rdicator, the relationship could be rocky. amazon has been blamed for seattle's stagnant wages and lack of affordable housing, and that has residents, like new york's jonathan westin concerned. t> we don't need to recruit businesses to come here. there's lots of businesses that yre coming here without any subsidies, without any tax