Cyber Monday Hits Record-Breaking $6.59B in US Online Sales

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This year’s Cyber Monday posted the largest-ever single day of online sales in the US. According to Adobe, consumers purchased $6.59 billion online, with purchases made on smartphones also breaking a record with $1.59 billion in sales. Did you score anything good?

Interestingly, Cyber Monday was the only day in the last five — the “start” of the holiday shopping period that kicks off with the Thanksgiving long weekend, including Black Friday — that sales totals did exceed Adobe’s estimates. In fact, they fell just slightly short of the $6.6 billion it predicted.
 
I call this the "LAST POSSIBLE DAY TO CLICK BUY ON THAT SAMSUNG TV YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR CART FOR TWO WEEKS" day.......they ought to call it SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT day, cuz that I think is what most people are doing on Cyber Monday now :)
 
Really? I thought between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the deals/sales/stuff was terrible. I did not see anything anyone would really stand in line for on opening day
 
Really? I thought between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the deals/sales/stuff was terrible. I did not see anything anyone would really stand in line for on opening day

Black Friday was also up in sales 18% from 2016. It's like people have money again....or at least have confidence they will have money in the future.
 
To me it seemed like this year black Friday had better deals. Last year Monday for sure.
 
I call this the "LAST POSSIBLE DAY TO CLICK BUY ON THAT SAMSUNG TV YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR CART FOR TWO WEEKS" day.......they ought to call it SHIT OR GET OFF THE POT day, cuz that I think is what most people are doing on Cyber Monday now :)
Yeah kind of me, my wife and my phones could do with a memory card, see 128GB Samsung U3 cards for $36 on Amazon on Black Friday, seems like a decent enough deal (down from $60 I think?), wait to see if they get lower on Monday, they don't. Click buy.
 
Black Friday was also up in sales 18% from 2016. It's like people have money again....or at least have confidence they will have money in the future.
Or given the nature of people, confidence they better spend it now while they have it.
 
All of the prices on my Amazon watch list went up 5-10 percent for black Friday and stayed there for Monday. They're starting to come down as of Tuesday morning.

FUCKERS!
 
It hurt, but I bought a UPS (CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD). However, this is the first thing I have bought during black Friday/cyber Monday in about 7 years.

The last time I bought stuff was for my current rig.
 
Bought a SanDisk SSD for cheapo on Cyber Monday at Amazon, my younger brother bought a pair of 3D NAND Western Digital 1 TB for his PS4 and gaming rig.

I haven't seen prices for SSDs drop that much in years. RAM sticks, they'll never drop. Cheapest I've seen RAM was maybe 3 years ago.
 
wtf did people buy? I sure didn't see anything worth buying. It was worse than black friday.

Amazon had a $330 55" TV special which turned out to be a fuckin Avera brand.
 
Got the Spider-Man: Homecoming Blu-Ray for $7 on Amazon -- cheaper than the Amazon Prime copy, even.
 
Picked up a 65" LG OLED for what should work out to be $1200 all said and done. Not bad for a $3000 TV.
 
I didn't see nothing much, most items that goes on sale are cheap products, for once, give us the newest, top quality product to be on sale.
 
Whats this? better cyber monday sales than black friday? Let retail people stay the f home
 
There were things all over for blck Friday. I never do Black Friday but this year I hit up lowes and HD. Got a $200 ladder for $99 and a $25 indoor step ladder for $9, $35 worth of drill bits for $15, and was contemplating picking up a cheapo but still Samsung 32" HDTV for $140. Add on to that a 10% military discount, was a decent time for me, and I didn't wait in lines, hit up both stores starting at 0600 and was done by 0645 and heading home. There's never lines at the hardware store lol. If I didn't already have a few other things there was good deals too but that's all I got this year. I did Walmart one year, waited about 3 hours, never doing that shit again, fuckin scum of the earth at that place on Black Friday lol. My Wife's family camps out religiously through starting on Thursday after the meal, if there is something I want I just have them get it. Fuck that noise lol
 
Although my Senior year I did wait 16 hours for a Wii... damn thing didn't even arrive at the store, maybe that's why I don't do Black Friday like others do
 
All of the prices on my Amazon watch list went up 5-10 percent for black Friday and stayed there for Monday. They're starting to come down as of Tuesday morning.

FUCKERS!

Yup, gotta watch those price histories, they play some people like a fiddle.
 
The deals stay, they may stop for a day or two but always return. I find the ones that are only on Monday aren’t worth it (aka junk).

But I do what I do every year, keep an eye on only a few things and keep track of the prices. If it drops off 60% but really only drops $10 I usually pass.
 
I saved 60 USD on a quantum PAR meter for my business. Other than that.. meh. Waiting for some CPUs/GPUs that aren't the same old 14nm horseshit.
 
i think i spent more prior to black friday and cyber monday. Black friday has turned into a month long event now. It's no longer the wait in line extravaganza it used to be since a lot of the deals are posted online prior. There was nothing on black friday or cyber monday that wowed me besides the tvs. I already have enough of those.
 
I bought one of the BB 8TB drives, I wanted to pick up an 525gb m2. MX300 but the price is going up on it now (including either tax or shipping).
 
Amazon had a pre-black Friday sale on Wera tools that saw the lowest prices in some time so I picked up a few Christmas presents. Other than that I mostly saw higher prices than you can normally find during the rest of year.
 
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