Cyber Monday Deals 2010

Cyber Monday Deals 2010, The 96.5 million people who shopped Cyber Monday last year (1) You can find online savings a day early, because once again, is to release its BestBuy.com specialties on Sunday, November 28. With online free shipping on hundreds of thousands of products until December 21 and a variety of practical options for in-store pickup, it has never been easier to shop the widest selection of gifts Top tech holiday wish lists.

“We heard from our customers that they are our online shopping channels, more than ever, and checking back often to get the best deals on the latest tech gifts,” said John Thompson, senior vice president and director General BestBuy.com. “We are committed to meet the changing needs of our customers with an online experience and delivery of products we know they want at the best price.”

Within two days of selling Internet, Best Buy is discounting select items online, including:

32 “LCD TV for only $ 259.99 to Save $ 100 on a Dell laptop with free GPS for $ 379.99 8GB iPod Touch Verizon HTC Incredible – free with 2 year activation (and reg price 599.99) Video Games $ 34.99, plus the purchase of 2 select titles and get a free $ 10 gift card 15% Off Select Major Appliances

Other features include Best Buy Cyber Week:

A New Hot Deal of the Day offers beginning November 30 through December 23. Available for only 24 hours, these agreements offer excellent value for online shoppers on the hottest gifts of holiday such as televisions, game machines, mobile phones and computers. Free shipping online on hundreds of thousands of products through December 21 to make it easier than ever for consumers to get their hands on the latest gifts, including all CD, DVD and Blu-Ray and game software and accessories. Most offers Internet sales will also be available for pickup in store with advanced options such as same-day pickup in store, the possibility of having someone else take the order or ship out of items in stock at Best Buy them at no extra cost. Cyber Trafficking week and complete solutions available on all online channels, including Best Buy mobile website, m.bestbuy.com. Customers can easily return BestBuy.com purchases at any Best Buy store

For more information on Cyber Monday, please visit www.bestbuy.com.

About Best Buy Co., Inc.

With operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Mexico and Turkey, Best Buy is the multinational retailer of technology products and entertainment services with a commitment to growth and innovation. The Best Buy family of brands and partnerships collectively generates more than $ 49 billion in annual revenue and includes brands such as Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile; Audiovision, Carphone Warehouse, Future Shop, Geek Squad, Jiangsu Five Star , Magnolia Audio Video, Napster, Pacific Sales and The Phone House. Approximately 180,000 employees apply their talents to help bring the benefits of these brands to life for customers through retail outlets, call centers and multiple Web sites, home solutions, product delivery and activities in our communities. Community partnership is at the heart of how we do business at Best Buy. In fiscal 2010, we donated a combined 25.2 million and to improve the vitality of the communities where our employees and customers live and work.

For more information about Best Buy www.bby.com visit, and follow on Twitter @ BBYNews.

(1) From the National Retail Federation

SOURCE: Best Buy Co., Inc.

Zhu Zhu Pets Cyber Monday

From one Black Friday shopper to another, let me just say that I hope you survived. And I hope that you didn’t end up in a tussle over a Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster.

But even if you did, don’t worry. It’s onward and upward for the holiday shopping season.

Today is Cyber Monday — the first Monday after Thanksgiving that’s known as the ceremonial kickoff to the online holiday shopping season. It’s the day when retailers pump up their Web sites with promotions and shoppers log on, often from work, to buy gifts away from the prying eyes of their families.

It’s like Black Friday, only it’s online.

Or at least that’s how it started a few years ago, when most Americans didn’t have high-speed Internet access at home and had to rely on their work computers for e-commerce.

Today, though, that’s not the case. And more and more retail analysts are starting to insist that Cyber Monday is nothing more than a marketing hoax — kind of like what some people say about global warming.

The concept was coined in 2005 by Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, after the trade group’s members noticed a trend of people shopping online on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

“It is clearly overhyped and oversaturated with propaganda,” said Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst for market research firm NPD Group Inc. “Now, so many people have computers at home, the Monday thing is more about: Let me see what the deals are.”

Indeed, he points out that the busiest online shopping day coincides with the last day you can ship items and have them arrive on Christmas Day.

In some ways, that parallels Black Friday, which is no longer the busiest day for holiday sales that keeps bricks-and-mortar retailers in the black. Their busiest shopping day typically falls a day or two before Christmas.

But still, if you’re tech savvy and inclined to take part in Cyber Monday, you still can make out on some great deals today.

Even Cohen admits that it is likely to be a busy online shopping day, filled with promotions.

According to Shop.org’s eHoliday Survey, 87 percent of retailers will have a special promotion for Cyber Monday, up from 84 percent last year and 72 percent in 2007.

Cyber Monday Deals

As millions of people return to work next Monday and begin their holiday shopping from their desktops, at least 60 hotels – including some of Starwood Hotels’ top resorts – will try to fill rooms next year by tapping into the ceremonial Cyber Monday holiday shopping madness.
Will shoppers buy sweaters, electronics – and hotel getaways? That remains to be seen. But according to Shop.org’s eHoliday Survey, conducted by BIGresearch, hotels can tap into a growing population.

About 54% of workers with Internet access – or about 69 million people – are expected to shop this coming Monday for holiday gifts from their workplace. Young adults ages 18-24 are the most likely age group to shop at work, and men are more likely than women, the survey says.

Yet while the numbers of potential buyers may be impressive, hotels still have their work cut out for them as retailers grab most of the attention. Most retailers surveyed (87%) said they plan to pitch customers with a special Cyber Monday deal this year, up slightly from last year’s 83%, according to the Shop.org survey. That raises the question: Will consumers think “vacation” when it comes to gift giving (even for themselves)?

These hotels – all experimenting with Cyber Monday specials for the first time – are betting that people will remember them on Monday. Some of the offers you’ll find:

Starwood Hotels (50):  Starwood on Cyber Monday will kick off a 3-day sale for 50 of its resorts ranging from the exotic to the nearby. The catch? You must book your vacation online on Starwood’s website. The special rates are good only for specific resorts and only during a specific period – Jan. 1 through April 30, 2010.  The benefit? You’ll save up to 45%. To get a preview of destinations, click here; the list ranges from the Bahamas and Bora Bora to Vancouver and Vermont. Examples include the Westin St. John Resort & Villas, with rooms starting at $289 a night, and the W Fort Lauderdale, with rooms starting at $229 a night. The cancellation policy is worth reading, because cancellations are non-refundable on this offer.

Affinia Hotels (7): Get 15% off your 2010 stay at any Affinia Hotel in New York, Chicago and Washington D.C. by booking on Cyber Monday. How? Create or update your My Affinia profile between 12am and 11:59pm EST on Nov. 30.  Affinia will then give you discount code good for 15% off any Affinia stay through Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. If you’re among the first 50 people do this and book a room using the discount code, Affinia will also throw in a $50 American Express gift card upon check-in for that stay. Good news? The discount is valid at any of Affinia’s seven hotels, and there are no blackout dates. Bad news? It’s only good on the best available rate booked on Affinia’s web site and can’t be combined with any other packages or promos. Also, you can’t book the Cyber Monday promo until 12 am, Nov. 30.

The James Hotel (1): Buy gift certificates good at the hotel – called James Credits – on Nov. 30 and receive a second batch of James Credits of equal value for no extra money. The gift certificates can be redeemed anywhere inside the James, a luxury boutique hotel in Chicago, whether on a night’s stay or dinner at the hotel’s steakhouse, David Burke’s Primehouse, or drinks at the lounge or lobby bar. The idea is that customers might use one batch (say $100) for themselves and give the second, free batch (also $100) away as a gift.