Comments on: Cyber Monday exceeds last year's holiday sales peak

Online shopping gets a boost as sales exceed last year's one-day peak. Merchants are likely to post even larger numbers in the days ahead.

"Cyber Monday" is a marketing myth

It's not even a particularly busy shopping day. See

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2005/nf20051129_9946_db016.htm?campaign_id=rss_tech

for a journalist who actually bothered to look behind all the breathless hype.

[lordbear]

Please stop

If you were to look through search index archives, you'd see the phrase "Cyber Monday" didn't even exist in measurable usage before this September.

The more 'journalists' write articles using "Cyber Monday" the more people will believe it's a legitimate term about a legitimate phenomenon.

Please don't perpetuate misinformation by parroting what you saw others say.

[ThreadSurfer]

c|net News or c|net PR Tool?

c|net, do you employ journalists? "Cyber Monday" is a marketing ploy, similar to Valentine's Day. c|net is being used to drive this internet marking campaign. Let the internet companies by ad placements from c|net, don't give it to freely.

[soakley75]

I agree...

While it might be a fact that people buy more stuff on this day, it's
ridiculous to try to make an event out of it where one doesn't exist.
I never heard of "cyber Monday" until I read a brief article about it
the other day. When I searched on Google all I came up with was
articles from news sites...no retailers, no personal/group websites,
just the media.

Oy with the poodles already...

[tpullano]

Ridiculous

Another made up day which generates more marketing hype which in turn generates more sales (because people are just so gullible!), and more ways for our children to forget the real meaning of the holidays.

I'm sure most are not taught, or don't even know the true meaning of Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Sorry to gripe, but this whole world is going down the toilet...