There was a big story about Cyber Monday in todays Detroit Free Press newspaper. It states a survey showed that some 45 percent of online retailers will be offering discounts and incentives on Monday. Most sales expected daytime between 9-5.

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I think they just made this up to hype up some more sales. Never heard of it before.

snake253 said:Are the store only going to have just 4 items at the sale price just like black friday ?

Never heard about it except for a mention at FW. Its a smart thing to do to refocus attention back to online stores since they never seem to do a BF kind of big disc thing before Xmas and instead only do that random kind of sale which I guess we can expect from stores from now until Xmas - this week prices are horrible in stores.

They always claim online sales are growing like crazy every year so they could really grab peoples interests by doing a CYBER monday by offering huge sales across the board and it would remind everyone just how horrendous instore BF is making the contrast that much more in favor of online sales.

Im looking for a portable DVD player cheapo 7 inch or so and there were a slew of sales from 70-80 BF but this week they are all 100 at the lowest at Radio Shack surprisingly for the generic Axiom brand to around 130 or so minimum at other stores.

You know where they are blowing it? Lack of ads. They dont have central media outlets like newspapers where they can hype ads. If they are going to do a real CYBER MONDAY hype fest they need to leak news of ads get excitement going weeks in advance and then have places to post ads. Could be real coup for deal sites to become the place to host ads. However to start it off they really need to buy ads in traditional media - newspapers and magazines if only to say look at www.xxxx.com for upcoming cyber monday deals. Or maybe buy online ad space at traditional newspapers websites.

Yea, honestly. I've never heard of this "Cyber Monday" before this weekend. I swear that it's something that the news media (finger pointed at CNN) made up and is now hyping it. But the good news is that it may actually force online stores to meet the hype and post up killer deals. I wouldn't mind Black Friday take2, would you? It'll be cool if it becomes an annual thing so I'm all for it.

Yeah, I heard on radio top of the hour news talking about cyber monday. people go to work and shop online (fire them! ).
but never heard if there are special deals, or just the fact that online companies see big sales on the monday after black friday.

cyber monday, first time i've ever heard of it was 2 days ago, just a bunch of hype produced by the media, possibly to boost consumption?

where is the deal?

LOL, yeah it sure looks like its lost in cyberspace... I haven't seen anyting except some really crappy stuff from Home Depot & CC.

OK, what did everybody get for "Cyber Monday"? I got nothing because there was nothing worth buying to my knowledge. It looks like internet retailers just decided to call today Cyber Monday thinking that people would buy their overpriced crap. No we don't have any sales today but today is CYBER MONDAY so you should buy something online, yeah thats it.