Holiday Web shopping looks brighter than last year

Internet retailers hope the convenience of the Web, plus discounts and deals, spur still-nervous shoppers to spend more online this holiday season — even as traditional retailers brace for mediocre sales.

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Study: Generation Gap With Net Shopping

Convenience and bargain-hunting tend to drive younger Americans to online shopping, while all adults share concerns about security and other drawbacks, a new study finds.

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Website monitoring service InternetVista vigorously measured the uptime and response time of seven of the most popular Internet retail websites from Monday morning November 24 until midnight November 28, to see how the online outlets would cope with the Black Friday madness, trad …

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Google introduced a new Commerce Search tool for retailers on Wednesday to try to make the online shopping experience easier for consumers as the holidays approach.

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A global network of criminals duped eBay customers into buying millions of pounds worth of fake golf clubs in the largest fraud uncovered by the online auction site.

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Price comparison shopping portal with the best price search engines and online shopping bots categorized. Find the lowest prices on everything from books and digital cameras to discount airfares and travel.

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A warning to parents - remember to log out before taking a nap. A three year old, following mom's example of buying toy trucks, ends up buying a buying an earthmover worth $12,300. All ends well though; mom explained her way out of it.

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If there are a few things I've learned over this year is finding deals and now is the best time to find them.

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Blame Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and the influential car-dealer lobby.

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Do you shop online 3+ times a month? You're a "'power shopper'" and know what Marketing VOX is writing about. Higher expectations from your e-tailers and a unique shopping experience. Which e-tailer gets your best/worst marks?

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From Wal-Mart to Saks Fifth Avenue, retailers are so desperate to rid themselves of inventory that they're marking down some merchandise by 90%.

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Do not blame this carnage on the recession or any of the usual suspects, including increased competition for the reader's time or diminished attention spans. What is undermining the book industry is not the absence of casual readers but the changing habits of devoted readers.

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What's Up With Bellringers These Days?

I haven't seen any yet, but has anyone else seen a bell ringer this year before entering their favorite department store? I wonder because I heard through the news grapevine that they accept credit cards and debit cards now.

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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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The eBay marketplace is huge, and this can puzzle anyone hunting for collectible books. (via American Libraries Direct)

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The pitfalls of online shopping at the Evil Empire were revealed in their full horror to a monogamous South Yorkshire couple, who found 12 Mates condoms added to their Tesco.com shopping list.

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Microsoft's new strategy for beating Google can be summed up in three words: Share the wealth. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the company's "Live Search Cashback" service Wednesday at an annual conference for online advertisers hosted by Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.

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Find out the secrets to score free super-saver shipping, discover valuable coupon codes, and learn the trick to zoom-in on Amazon Prime items.

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CouponMountain.com is one of the easiest sites to navigate because it is also one of the few that don't require registration or a lengthy sign-up process in order to access coupons.

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Internet shopping may have come of age in 2007, a report out today claims. Just under £1 in every £7 spent on consumer goods in the UK last year was spent online. This represents a jump of more than 50% compared to 2006.

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Thousands of families face disappointment tomorrow after it emerged that huge numbers of presents ordered online will not arrive in time for Christmas.

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KMART made a generation of bargain hunters react like starving dogs to a ringing bell.

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The most lucrative moment in British online shopping history began at 1.09pm yesterday when more than £750,000 was spent in a single minute, according to an internet monitoring company.

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Today has been nicked named 'Mega Monday' as it is the day that shoppers turn to the internet for their Christmas shopping.

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With gas prices rising higher and higher, more people are turning to online shopping. More folks looking for deals online equals more chances for spammers and scammers.

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12 Angry Men describe an online credit card scam and how to deal with it:

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