No, No, No! It's This Monday That's Cyber Monday... Maybe
from the or-maybe-it's-next-monday dept
A few weeks ago, we wrote about how the idea that the Monday after Thanksgiving is somehow the busiest online shopping day of the year known as "Cyber Monday" was actually completely made up by a bunch of online marketers hoping to boost interest in online sales. The truth was that the Monday after Thanksgiving is nothing special. Of course, now that it's in the past and out of everyone's minds, another company is now claiming that this coming Monday is the real busiest online shopping day of the year... unless it's the following Monday. Or, they say, there's a possibility that it would be the Monday after that. But, you know, one of these Mondays. Meanwhile another firm is asking what Monday has to do with anything. They insist that "Cyber Monday" is really a Tuesday. That's right, next Tuesday might be the biggest online shopping day of the year. But, maybe not. Of course, since you don't have to brave the crowds at the mall... do you really care?
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Thats a good thing? The 360 is an abomininaation to all video games.
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Out of Time
You'd better figure it out soon, otherwise it will be too late to receive your shipments before Christmas. Then you'll have to go to a STORE (where the busiest shopping day is not the day after Thanksgiving, but is actually the last Saturday before Christmas).
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No, it's not *day, ...
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mondays?
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Laziness...
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Hype or not, it is true for our site
Mondays are almost always the peak of the week, and hottest during business hours -- our theory is that people talk or see things over the weekend then use their broadband connection at work to close the deal.
So it's not completely a myth. Unless maybe I am part of the conspiracy!
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Cyber Monday is here to stay
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