Yesterday Saw $3.3 Billion In Online Purchases (cmo.com) 66
Friday humanity set a new record for the most money ever spent online in a single day -- and the most ever purchased on mobile devices. An anonymous reader writes:
Online sales reached $3.34 billion yesterday, up 11.3% from the same day last year, according to a new report from Adobe Digital Insights. And most of that traffic came from mobile devices. In fact, yesterday became "the first day to ever generate over a billion dollars in online sales from mobile devices," according to their report. Although 64% of online sales came from desktop computers, 55% of the traffic to shopping sites still came from mobile devices -- 45% from smartphones, and 10% from tablets. (Just three years ago, only 20% of Black Friday sales came from mobile devices.)
The top-grossing products appeared to be iPads and Macbooks, Microsoft's Xbox, and Samsung and LG TVs, while the top-grossing toys were electric scooters, drones, Nerf guns and LEGO sets. The products mostly likely to be "out of stock" yesterday included the new NES Classic and the Nintendo 3DS XL Solgaleo Lunala (black edition), the Playstation VR bundle (and the PS4 "Call of Duty: Black Ops" bundle), and the Xbox One S bundle for Madden NFL 17.
The day after Black Friday is now being touted as "Small Business Saturday," a tradition started in 2010 when American Express partnered with the non-profit National Trust for Historic Preservation (and some civic-minded groups in Boston) to encourage people to shop in their local brick-and-mortar stores. American Express reported a $1.7 billion increase in sales on Small Business Saturday in 2015, "with 95 million customers reporting shopping small at local retailers, salons, restaurants and more."
The top-grossing products appeared to be iPads and Macbooks, Microsoft's Xbox, and Samsung and LG TVs, while the top-grossing toys were electric scooters, drones, Nerf guns and LEGO sets. The products mostly likely to be "out of stock" yesterday included the new NES Classic and the Nintendo 3DS XL Solgaleo Lunala (black edition), the Playstation VR bundle (and the PS4 "Call of Duty: Black Ops" bundle), and the Xbox One S bundle for Madden NFL 17.
The day after Black Friday is now being touted as "Small Business Saturday," a tradition started in 2010 when American Express partnered with the non-profit National Trust for Historic Preservation (and some civic-minded groups in Boston) to encourage people to shop in their local brick-and-mortar stores. American Express reported a $1.7 billion increase in sales on Small Business Saturday in 2015, "with 95 million customers reporting shopping small at local retailers, salons, restaurants and more."
Re:What about China? (Score:5, Informative)
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Dollars or Yuan?
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Lies, or Different Lies?
Re:What about China? (Score:5, Informative)
Dollars or Yuan?
It was 120 Billion Yuan or 17.5 Billion Dollars in a single day.
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Does it matter in a post-currency world? It's Dollars, it's Yuan, it's tea tablets, it's boar's teeth - whatever the people believe it is.
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As long as its not Bitcoins. Thats a scam
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Forgive My Ignorance (Score:1)
Forgive my ignorance, but how does Adobe Digital Insights know how much all, or even a small majority of online retailers sold yesterday. It's difficult for me to believe that Amazon, Walmart, Macy's, Toy 'R Us, Best Buy, et al are feeding Adobe their sales data.
So, is Adobe Digital Insights pulling numbers out of their ass or are they leveraging all of Adobe's Flash installations to spy on everyone's online transactions?
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Forgive my ignorance, but how does Adobe Digital Insights know how much all, or even a small majority of online retailers sold yesterday.
An obvious way to do it would be to look at Visa/Mastercard "card-not-present" transactions. That wouldn't give you an exact number, but it would be good enough to print in a headline. Another obvious method would be to just make up a number by extrapolating from last year's data.
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Can Adobe do that? To the whole lot, I mean, clearly they could for their own sales.
I have trouble believing this... (Score:1)
when everyone I know refuses to buy online because of counterfeit products and terrible return policies. In September, I bought four 4T harddrives from Newegg that were used and two didn't work out of the box and two never worked. The two that worked for a while had more than 500 hours on them according to SMART, so they were used. I'm still fighting Newegg for a return. At work, we bought four expensive TVs for conference rooms from Fry's in August, and none worked out of the box. They wouldn't take a
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Sucks to be you - I buy from Amazon and Newegg all the time, somehow I don't have these same experiences, and judging from the comments on the products I buy, neither do other people who bother to comment. I'm sure it happens, but if it's happening to you all the time, maybe you're doing it wrong?
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There must be a note in his file that says to sell him broken shit because he's an asshole. You never get those notes removed either. The only solution is suicide.
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What makes him an asshole?
He expected to get what he ordered to work? I did a PC refresh project for Dell at a Fortune 500 client when I discovered that a new workstation got shipped without a hard drive. My boss told me to call Dell tech support and wished me good luck. I was the asshole who had to explain that a workstation with missing hard drive was unacceptable, I couldn't ship back the missing hard drive because I didn't have it, and that it had to be shipped yesterday. It took a week to get Dell to ship out a replacement hard
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Sometimes it is just your local delivery person. I do not order anything to my residence that cannot stand a solid 20 story fall.
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Fairy, horror, or shaggy dog?
Re:I have trouble believing this... (Score:4, Informative)
when everyone I know refuses to buy online because of counterfeit products and terrible return policies
So, because everyone you know doesn't shop online, no-one does?
I guess Amazon is some kind of weird fiction that we're all in on?
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I bought almost everything except groceries from Amazon and Newegg the last decade, but I'm finding myself buying more and more items from brick and mortar stores precisely for the reasons OP gives - counterfeit goods and easier returns. A big part of the reason I bought from Amazon was the no-hassle returns,
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I second this poster. NewEgg used to be great, but have gone into the crapper the last couple years. Sadly, Amazon is the only game in town for a lot of things now.
In all my years buying from Amazon, I have never once received an item that was already opened and used by someone else. Newegg seems to think it is perfectly acceptable to package an item like this back up and sell it as "new".
They stopped trying to do what they were good at (Score:2)
and they're trying to compete with Amazon and every other All-tailers and in doing so they're fucking awful now having diluted the one thing they were good at years ago.
It seems every retailer thinks they have to be everything now instead of specializing and doing something well.
I stopped buying from Newegg some time ago (Score:2)
because of their shitty customer service. You can find comparable pricing if you look around a bit (bhphotovideo/amazon/sometimes fry's,etc).
And nothing of value was gained (Score:2)
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If that isn't worth murdering someone over, I don't know what is.
Discounted toilet paper. Only in America. Oh, wait...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-black-friday-fight-breaks-9331697 [mirror.co.uk]
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If that isn't worth murdering someone over, I don't know what is.
Discounted toilet paper. Only in America. Oh, wait...
OH Shit!!!
So far this Black Friday... (Score:2)
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Same here, my contract ends in a few weeks. I only buy when I need them. :(
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Same here, my contract ends in a few weeks. I only buy when I need them. :(
I work in government IT and my contract is fully funded for another three years. AFAIK, it's business as usual for the next three years as it would be unusual for Congress to cancel existing contracts outright. I'm preparing for the worse for the next four years.
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Mine only goes up to 1.5 years/18 months (Cisco's previous/former CEO decideded this for contractors :() with quarterly renewals.
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Ah, yep. I hate that. Before that, I was at Symantec for 12.8333333... years. Such life. I tried to get a job with the government, city, etc. before those jobs but failed even though pays suck. :(
Humanity? (Score:2)
Peeps is trippin' (Score:3)