Amazon Sold 158 Items Per Second on Cyber Monday, Believe it!

Remember my Cyber Monday blog from back in November, “Shop until Your Mouse Breaks”?  I was skeptical.  Was Cyber Monday just another piece of bait to scheme shoppers?  Scheme, not so much! Amazon announced in late 2010 that on its peak day for the year, November 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all product categories, which translates to a – self-proclaimed – record-breaking 158 items per second. 

As I explained in my previous blog, Cyber Monday is a day of online sales that follows Black Friday weekend, which runs from Thanksgiving through Sunday. The Cyber Monday estimate of shoppers from the National Retail Federation was a 10% increase from last year.  Cyber Monday, a work day for most Americans, lured and estimated 70 million shoppers, most of whom were shopping online during work hours.  48.9% of Cyber Monday orders were placed from work computers, comScore said, a slight decline from last year.

The numbers don’t lie, shoppers were willing and ready to spend money this past holiday season.  An estimated 107 million shoppers “went shopping” online on Cyber Monday, capping a five-day spending spree that raised retailers' hopes that consumers would deliver the best holiday season in four years.  Americans spent more than $1 billion on Cyber Monday as illustrated below, making it the biggest online shopping day in history, digital marketplace research firm comScore said Wednesday.  Clearly, Amazon took a huge piece of that particular pie.

The three top-selling items on Amazon.com this past Cyber Monday were the Kindle Wi-Fi and Kindle 3G, iPod Touch 8GB, and the video game Call of Duty.   In fact, Amazon’s bestselling product ever is the Kindle 3G.  Thanks to the Kindle 3G's strong sales this year, Amazon dubbed the device its worldwide bestselling product of all time, eclipsing the seventh and last book in the wildly popular Harry Potter series.

This year Cyber Monday will be on November 28^th and Black Friday a few days earlier on Friday November 25^th.

I am interested to hear- Did any of you reading this buy anything from Amazon.com this past cyber Monday?  Now that you all know what Cyber Monday is, will you be looking for deals this November 28^th online?