Comments on: Cyber Monday – Who Knew?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:53:14 +0000

Your still doing a great job keeping the site up and interesting! Keep up the good work. I know this is no easy task to keep on top of everything.

By: nickel

nickel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:46:40 +0000

Just closing the loop on this for the sake of anyone else reading along… Apparently this article got picked up and sent out with the daily e-mail. I’m still not sure why, but I’ll investigate.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:30:10 +0000

Just curious; why is a 3 year old article being put out as being written today?

By: nickel

nickel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:18:13 +0000

Dave: This article was published three years ago (11/29/2005).

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:46:49 +0000

Am I missing something here? You state that cyber Monday has come and gone and you missed it. Since today is Monday how did you miss it?

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:04:51 +0000

It worked for me. Dell was sending out emails about their Cyber Monday sales and I ended up getting a $969 laptop for $559. I think this will take off because it’s much easier to shop at home, rather than having to get up at 4AM and wait in line. But I agree, the choice of Monday after Thanksgiving is not that great, I wish it was another day.

By: Johnie

Johnie — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:23:44 +0000

Yes, they just made it up 2 weeks ago. It was made up by Shopping Federation, I believe. It’s a affiliation of retailers.

Logically, it doesn’t make sense:
1) The monday after a long weekend, people are just coming back to work. Most people do not have time to shop.
2) As Cramer mentioned, many companies have blocking software to prevent you from shopping during office hours and/or doing personal stuff is discouraged in many offices.
3) Online retailing is a different breed than B&M retrailers. Unlike B&M, online retailers are open 24/7. After a long weekend of shopping, there is no reason that people will log on to shop some more. More likely, I can see online sales increase the week before Christmas.

Either way, if we learned anything from the gold mining days, the people that are going to profit are going to be the people that support the online retailer business, ie UPS/Fedex.

By: FMF

FMF — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:21:52 +0000

This name (Cyber Monday) was new to me as well — never heard of it. Did they just make it up this year?

By: jim

jim — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:57:17 +0000

I didn’t really see much in the way of deals for “Cyber-Monday.” I heard about it on the news but vendors don’t seem to put the same push into as they do Black Friday…

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:18:01 +0000

I’ve seen a lot of deals, but I didn’t buy anything online yesterday. Except for a recurring monthly charge that I had previously told the people I did not want to incur, so I have to fight with them over that now.