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Are you shopping up a storm on the Web today? As artificial holidays go, Cyber Monday is a doozy. It's the day everyone supposedly rushes to their computer — the day they get back from their Thanksgiving holiday — and flood e-commerce sites looking for deals they couldn't shop for in front of their family at home.
Retailers, of course, oblige with the online equivalents of the door-buster deals retail stores opened their doors for at 4 a.m. last Friday. Very early numbers suggest traffic for today's Cyber Monday deals has already topped last year's dreary e-commerce deals.
That wouldn't be hard since last year's retail sales were dinged by a flailing economy that made even the most hardened online shoppers take a "Waiting to Exhale" approach.
What were some of the best deals? Based on my browsing (I didn't buy anything today; yay, self restraint!), there were plenty of cheap HDTV sets, discounted "Guitar Hero 5" sets and, hey, David Archuleta's Christmas From The Heart for $5.99! Basically, things you probably weren't planning to buy anyway.
Video games that haven't been doing well at retail were heavily discounted on multiple Web sites. On Amazon.com, the Kindle e-reader is reportedly the most popular holiday item being sold there. This was not so surprising given previous estimates.
What else were people shopping for today? Research firm In-Stat says the most popular consumer electronics this holiday season are HDTVs, notebook PCs, digital cameras, Blu-ray players and desktop computers.
Meanwhile, sites that specialize in posting the best cyber deals kept busy all weekend gearing up for Cyber Monday on the Web and in places like Twitter.
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