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Dec 1 2008

eBay releases Black Friday Sales Information without providing much Information

Bilal Hameed 

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eBay has published a press release regarding the retail sales stats on Black Friday without going into details about the sales volumes or earnings made during this time. This absolute lack of information has been taken as a clue that sales were not up to the mark.

Nintendo Wii Console is The Most Popular Product on eBay

Nov. 29, 2008, SAN JOSE, Calif. – Black Friday saw a buzz of shopping activity, as consumers took to their computers to snap up hot holiday gifts. eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) companies, including PayPal and Shopping.com, all saw consumers going online for great deals. The companies reported key online shopping trends, popular categories and hot gifts.

“Results from Black Friday show that shoppers continue to turn to the Web for their holiday shopping needs, especially for consumer electronics,” said Jim “Griff” Griffith, eBay Marketplace Expert. “Online shopping is convenient and allows consumers to find the best values and vast selection. Shoppers can visit eBay and Shopping.com to purchase all of their holiday items at unbeatable prices, and can pay quickly and securely with PayPal.”

Shoppers are Clicking for Deals
With money tighter than ever, shoppers are hitting the Web to find the best values for their hard-earned cash. A recent Nielsen study found that 78 percent of adult online users made a purchase on the Web in the past six months. Additionally, a recent survey conducted by Survey.com on behalf of eBay found that getting “great deals” was the most important criteria for shoppers when choosing where to shop online this holiday season.

Shoppers are taking advantage of the great deals on eBay to find must-have gifts. Black Friday online shoppers took advantage of eBay’s great deals, including the Daily Deal, $1 Holiday Doorbusters, Bid from $1 and Microsoft Live Search cashback. Consumers also turned to Shopping.com for their holiday shopping needs, searching most often for Nintendo Wii Fit and Nintendo Wii.

Was there any information in it, we all know that shoppers are turning to online shopping in increasing numbers and are hunting for bargains, what’s informative in all this ?

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  • eBay may have had 200m- 233m registered members since 1995 but many have long since gone and since I have been harvesting eBay data for a year now by trawling sales and feedback it has now become very slow in picking out new members and the software achieves an average hit ration over 99% which suggest my quest is coming to an end and if you take into account the number of accounts used for shill bidding or selling feedback then this more than takes care of the 1% that will always be missing.

    With terabytes of compressed data I am quite able to prove the actual number of active members is quite substantially below the number being pushed around by gatekeepers sites all over the internet and I welcome a peer review of this data before going public with my findings after considering the legal implications in relation to data that is in the public domain anyway and having witnessed eBays dirty tricks department work at first hand.

    Please drop by eBuster,co,uk if you have the technical skills and inclination to review the results.

    Now who was it that said the truth will set you free
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