Retailers look to stretch out Cyber Monday push

Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday — a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving — and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.

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Senators blast Web sites for scamming shoppers

With Cyber Monday, the unofficial start of the Internet holiday shopping season nearing, a Senate committee Tuesday condemned three online companies, saying they are tricking consumers into signing up for subscription services they don't want.

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More shoppers bought online Monday but spent less

Online spending at U.S. retailers on Monday jumped 15 percent over with the comparable day a year ago to $846 million, comScore said Thursday, as consumers sought out bargains in a tough economy.

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Cyber Monday might have turned out to be better than expected. Online retailers saw a 13.7 percent increase in sales compared to last year, and 24.1 percent more than on Black Friday 2009.

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Why do the marketing people in America think if they brand certain days the American people will lose all control and spend all their money.

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This year, nearly nine out of 10 retailers will have Cyber Monday specials on their Web sites, according to a survey by Shop.org, which runs CyberMonday.com, an online mall with more than 700 retailers.

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Cyber Monday Conquests

This is a follow up article to a Black Friday Article on boasting about what stuff you found.

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After a tepid start, online holiday sales seem to be picking up a bit. Online sales on Cyber Monday as measured by comScore were a healthy $846 million, up 15 percent from last year's Cyber Monday. Online sales since Thanksgiving are up 12 percent to $2.4 billion.

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According to PC World, by the end of the day Amazon's top 10 list had ultra mobile notebook written all over it. Seven of the ten spots were taken by netbooks with the Eee PC 900 and Acer's Aspire One fighting over the top spot through out the day.

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41st Parameter conducted the survey during a joint webinar with the Merchant Risk Council on November 19, 2008, which included two FraudNet customer panelists.

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Security researchers have deemed November 24 "black Monday" following predictions it will herald this year's peak in the spread of information-stealing malware.

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Some estimates are near a half-billion dollars.

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Retailers are loath to let consumers in on their super-secret plans for big sales or tip their hand as to holiday-time markdown strategies -- for "competitive reasons," they insist -- but there's plenty of information out there for navigating the year-end shopping season.

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