Best Cyber Monday Deals 2010

Best Cyber Monday Deals 2010, Cyber Monday is Black Friday online, People on the internet having a great number of offers by a number of Web Shops Points With offering free shipping and increase the demand. According to Comscore, it’s working: Cyber Monday was the second highest spending day of 2009, with buyers charging nearly $890 million during the special shopping event. Below is a Low price list…

Amazon

James Bond 007: Blood Stone (360, PS3) is $34.99 with free shipping. Normally $55. [LogicBUY]

The PSPGo is $149.99, down from $199.99. Two colors, pearl white or piano black.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 for $13.40, Save 55% [Deals4Downloads]

Tom ClancyTom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction for $14.99, Save 50% [Deals4Downloads]

Spore for $15.99, Save 47% [Deals4Downloads]

Create for $19.99, Save 33% [Deals4Downloads]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 for $19.99, Save 33% [Deals4Downloads]

Medal of Honor for $39.99, Save 33% [Deals4Downloads]

Crysis Warhead for $13.95, Save 30% [Deals4Downloads]

Dragon Age Origins – Ultimate Edition for $34.99, Save 30% [Deals4Downloads]

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Limited Edition for $34.99, Save 30% [Deals4Downloads]

Best Buy

Metroid: Other M is $24.99 with free shipping or select in-store pickup if you need it now. Next lowest price is $39.99. [LogicBUY]

Dell Home

Dell Home’s Cyber Monday sale drops the Xbox 360 250GB Slim Kinect bundle for $359.99 with free shipping. [LogicBUY]

Direct2Drive

Super Meat Boy for $9.95, Save 33% [Deals4Downloads]

EA Store

EA Store continues its Black Friday sale to Cyber Monday, cutting 50% off select digital download titles including The Sims series, Spore and more. [LogicBUY]

GameStop

Select video games are up to $30 off. Notables include Lost Planet 2 for $19.99, Bioshock 2 Limited Edition (PC) for $19.99, Mafia 2 for $39.99 on Xbox 360/PS3 and more. [LogicBUY]

GameStop’s full Black Friday/Cyber Monday PC Digital Download sale may be seen here.

Others:

Grand Theft Auto 3 for $2.49, Save 75% [Deals4Downloads]

Fallen Earth: Welcome to Apocalypse for $9.99, Save 75% [Deals4Downloads]

Darksiders for $19.99, Save 50% [Deals4Downloads]

Fallout New Vegas for $29.99, Save 40% [Deals4Downloads]

Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition for $39.99, Save 33% [Deals4Downloads]

Blur for $20.99, Save 30% [Deals4Downloads]

Best Buy Cyber Monday

Best Buy Cyber Monday, (AFP) – As stores roll out the offers and preen displays ahead of “Black Friday” — the start of the US holiday shopping season, there are high hopes for a bumper sales this year.

After a brutal few years for retailers, experts are predicting that maybe this year will be better than the last, with increased sales, albeit at levels still far off their 2007 peak.

“This holiday season presents a consumer with a little more spending power than last year,” said Scott Krugman of the National Retail Federation pointing to the ongoing economic recovery.

The federation expects this season’s sales to rise 2.3 percent from last year, with 138 million Americans expected to raid the stores over the coming weekend.

The starting gun will for the rush will come on Black Friday — the day after this Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday — when Americans rummage through racks and bins laden with heavily discounted goods.

“The consumer is ready to shop as long as retailers meet their expectations in terms of price,” Krugman said during a conference call organized by Dow Jones Indexes.

Electronic good are expected to show the sharpest rise in sales, as tablets and laptops are first on consumers’ shopping lists, according to a survey conducted by Retrevo.com.

The average household spend this season was set to rise from 690 dollars from 680 last year, the NRF said.

Online shopping is also expected to boost sales.

Technology research firm Forrester forecast that online retail sales will this year grow 16 percent from 2009 to 51.7 billion dollars as next “Cyber Monday” continues to grow.

“For now at least, we are seeing some decent growth numbers and while levels are not yet back to 2007,” credit card company MasterCard said in a report.

“The year-over-year growth stats are helping to get the holiday season off to an encouraging start.”

Walletpop

Walletpop, All about Toys of Holidays are located at WalletPop; Web site has its annual overview of the 10 hottest toys for the holidays. You can read all about the top 10 on the official blog WalletPop at:
www.walletpop.com

But here’s the skinny on the first three toys – and where to get them.

1. Squinkies: This year’s version of Animals Zhu Zhu. Squinkies are heavily marketed by blogging moms who donate them to house parties and the online exam. Check box stores and online.

2. Xbox 360 KINECTS: We have already had KINECTS on Fox 29 and it should be a big seller.

Check GameStop and other similar online stores, but may be difficult to find in stock.

3. Monster doll top : A cross between a monster and Barbie. Can be found at major retailers.

Best Buy Cyber Monday

Best Buy Cyber Monday, (AP) – Not all Americans tucked into turkey with their families on Thanksgiving. Some were out shopping, hitting sales ahead of the crowds expected Friday.

After a year of cautious spending and worry over an uncertain economy and high unemployment, more stores this year extended hours into Thanksgiving Day, a day when stores are traditionally closed.

Many grumble about the relentless march of commercialism creeping into the holiday. But at least some shoppers took the bait.

While crowds appeared relatively light compared with the weekend ahead, the extended hours drew in overseas visitors, those who have to work Friday and some who couldn’t resist a good deal.

Sears, Kmart and some Sports Authority, Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores were among those open Thursday.

At an Old Navy in Lutherville, Md., Brenda Tarver, 65, a retired postal employee from Baltimore, was dragged out of the house by her daughters, but was finding good deals on clothing.

“They’ve got good prices and a variety of items. A lot of things are 50 percent off,” she said.

Willy Gerelbest, 45, a counselor from Brooklyn, was shopping at Kmart in New York for sneakers on sale for $9.99.

“I saw the advertising and just wanted to check it out,” he said. “Tomorrow I have to work.”

David Friedman, president of marketing for Sears Holdings Corp. said the decision to open 7 a.m.-noon on Thanksgiving Day stemmed from positive response to a similar “early Black Friday” sale in November, as well as success with Kmart, which Sears also owns and has been open on Thanksgiving for 19 years.

Workers will earn holiday pay and still be home in time for a Thanksgiving meal, Friedman said.

At the Sears store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., the largest U.S. shopping and entertainment complex, sales were fueled by a charity walk at the mall.

The walk — and a good sale — drew Helen Schultz, of White Bear Lake, Minn. She bought a 19-inch RCA LCD HDTV for $129.99, saving $70. But she said wouldn’t have bought it Thursday if she hadn’t been there for the charity walk.

“I don’t think shopping should be done on Thanksgiving,” Schultz said. “But they need to make money.”

Toys R Us CEO Jerry Storch said the company decided to open at 10 p.m. Thanksgiving Day because reaction was so positive to the stores’ midnight opening last year. Before that, stores opened at 5 a.m. on Friday. He expects brisk sales of hot toys like Santa-ma-jig, a green and red singing doll.

“Customers lined up at 8 p.m. on last year. They wanted us to open earlier,” he said.

A similar promotional blitz greeted online shoppers Thursday, though the holiday isn’t a bonanza there, either.

Last year, consumers spent about $300 million online on Thanksgiving, compared with $887 million on Cyber Monday, according to comScore.

According to Akamai Technologies, which tracks traffic to 270 retail sites, traffic peaked at 11 a.m. and was up about 14 percent from Wednesday.

Early data from Coremetrics, an IBM company, from early afternoon showed that online Thanksgiving Day sales were up about 10 percent over Thanksgiving a year ago. The average order size was down 18 percent from a year ago to $130.50, but that figures was getting bigger as the day went on.

John Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Best Buy Inc.’s website, said this year the company reached out to its frequent online shoppers and gave them early access to deals.

“Thanksgiving Day is a day when we are seeing more and more consumers choose online as a place to begin their research and actually transact,” he said.

With nearly 15 million unemployed in the U.S., some store workers were grateful for the holiday pay or extra time off that comes with working on a holiday.

Bryce Humerick, 21, of Towson, Md., a sales associate at the Old Navy store in Lutherville, said he was happy to be making time-and-a-half.

“I don’t mind,” he said. “My Thanksgiving dinner isn’t until later.”

Not everyone was so pleased.

In the hardware department of the Mall of America’s Sears, John McDonough had volunteered to work, but he bemoaned the increasing commercialization of the holiday season in general.

“It’s a crying shame,” he said. “What has corporate America done to us?”

Sarah Brumfield in Lutherville, Md., and Steve Karnowski in Bloomington, Minn., contributed to this report.

Walmart Cyber Monday

Walmart Cyber Monday, (AP) – For one day at least, you could almost imagine the recession never happened. Millions of the nation’s shoppers braved rain and cold to crowd stores while others grabbed online bargains on what could be the busiest Black Friday ever.

Early signs pointed to bigger crowds at many stores including Best Buy, Sears, Macy’s and Toys R Us, some of which had earlier openings than past years or even round-the-clock hours. Minnesota’s Mall of America and mall operators Taubman Centers Inc. and Macerich Co. also reported more customers than last year.

But the most encouraging sign for retailing and for the economy was what Americans were throwing in their carts. Shoppers still clutched lists and the buying frenzy was focused on the deals on TVs and toys, but many were treating themselves while they bought gifts for others, adding items like boots, sumptuous sweaters, jewelry and even dresses for special occasions.

Elayne Breton and her daughter Michelle got to Maryland’s Mall in Columbia around 7 a.m. A few hours later, Michelle had picked out several presents for herself, including a pair of UGG boots, perfume and an iPod Touch. At Nordstrom, she scored a long-sleeved purple shirt that her mother let her wear out of the store.

“Last year we were careful,” said Elayne, whose husband’s beer distribution business has started to pick up again. “This year we’ll do more.”

The strong Black Friday builds on retailers’ momentum after a solid start to November. Shoppers who can afford it are buying more nonessentials, like jewelry and luxury goods.

“Last year, consumers were extremely into the basics, the socks, the pillows,” said Keith Jelinek, director of the global retail practice at consulting firm AlixPartners. “This year, they’re hungry to dress up their wardrobes, their homes. Shoppers were buying items with a little more pizazz, trendier sweaters, sheets in higher thread counts.”

He cautioned that they’re not looking to replace everything — just looking for a few special items. “They’re still very value-conscious,” he added.

Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren said there were 7,000 people outside its Manhattan flagship store for its 4 a.m. opening, up from 5,000 people a year ago.

“The difference between this year and last year was that last year, people had a budget and a list. They’re doing the same thing this year but they’re also buying for themselves,” he said. Among some of the hot sellers were a luggage set for $49.99 and $39.99 cashmere sweaters.

He noted that two groups that helped fuel customer traffic were young shoppers, ages 15 to 25, and men, both of whom were buying for themselves.

Sharply reduced prices on flat-screen TVs helped fuel many stores’ sales, according to Marshal Cohen, market research analyst at NPD Group Inc. Stores were grappling with a glut of TVs heading into the season because they had overestimated consumer demand.

Research firm ShopperTrak is expected to release Black Friday data on Saturday, but a full picture of how retailers fared for the overall weekend won’t be known until Thursday when major retailers report their monthly sales results.

For the economy, the question remains: Will shoppers keep it up?

Nearly 15 million people remain unemployed, and concerns about job security cloud consumer confidence. Spending is picking up but has not returned to pre-recession levels. And shoppers haven’t let go of many cautious habits learned from the Great Recession.

Many purchased with cash, and layaway remained popular as shoppers try to budget. Sears reported that consumers were setting aside items like Nordic treadmills that were on sale for $399, a savings of $400, to be delivered after the holidays.

Credit cards were staying inside many wallets.

“Now that I’m debt-free. I want to keep it that way,” said Desiree Banks, who was at Best Buy in Macedonia, Ohio, with a stack of DVDS for $3.99 each.

Shoppers did their homework, researching deals on websites. Stores made planning easier by touting their bargains last week.

“Every year, we get more refined,” said Deb Brown, 42, who was at the Bellevue Square Mall in Bellevue, Wash. She came from White Rock, British Columbia.

Many teens bucked the bargain-hunting trend, shopping full force — and paying full price — at high-end stores like Hollister and American Eagle Outfitters, according to mall officials. That suggests that parents, feeling more financially secure, are giving their children extra spending money, said Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research at Thomson Research.

A big worry is that some of the solid buying earlier in November could steal thunder from the rest of the season and leave a deeper lull between Thanksgiving weekend and the few days before Christmas.

Clearly, stores worked hard to draw shoppers in for Black Friday and earlier, with more deals and expanded hours that allowed people to get shopping soon after their Thanksgiving dinner.

A number of stores including Old Navy, Toys R Us and Sears opened on Thanksgiving Day. Toys R Us was counting on getting an extra boost by opening 24 hours straight, starting at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Many stores had trotted out the “Black Friday” label on sales as far back as October.

Best Buy Co. started its holiday TV ads 11 days earlier this year than last year. CEO Brian Dunn said customer counts were showing high-single-digit percentage increases Friday morning compared to last year. He said shoppers were throwing in items like Blu-ray players to go with early morning bargains that started at 5 a.m.

“Traffic was fast and furious. … We started earlier and we have more TV (commercials). I think both of these things helped,” Dunn said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Wal-Mart, which had most stores open around the clock, reported the top five selling electronic items included an Emerson 32-inch LCD HDTV for $198. Hot toys included $10 Barbies and $4 Zhu Zhu pets, which were last year’s hot hit.

Thanksgiving weekend is huge for retailers. In recent years, Black Friday — called that because the surge of shoppers could take retailers into profitability, or “the black,” for the year — has been the busiest shopping day of the year, according to data from ShopperTrak.

Black Friday is generally not as big for online retailers as Monday after Thanksgiving — known as Cyber Monday — but many were already off to a good start. By mid-afternoon Friday, eBags sales soared 69.5 percent compared with a year ago.

The retail blitz doesn’t make or break the holiday season. In fact, shoppers seem to be procrastinating more every year, giving retailers some nail-biting moments waiting for sales the last few days before Christmas.

Last year, the Thanksgiving shopping weekend accounted for 12.3 percent of overall holiday revenue, according to ShopperTrak. Black Friday made up about half of that.

AP Business Writers Mae Anderson in New York; Emily Fredrix in Cleveland; Ashley Heher in Chicago; Sarah Skidmore in Portland, Ore.; Jessica Mintz in Bellevue, Wash., and Ellen Gibson in Columbia, Md.; contributed to this report.