cyber monday - a recap
In the Isac Asimov 'Foundation' series, there exists a group whose mission, in essence, is 'to organize the universe's information.' After all, it does no good to have all the information in the world if you can not get access to the answers for your questions.
Which is why, even in this day and age of several majour search engines tirelessly indexing and cross linking the various pages and posts on the world wide web it still helps to have a single site that collects the data on a single topic, and if you are looking for Christmas shopping deals that crop up right around Thanksgiving, specifically on the first Monday when we all wearily head back into work (and that nice, fast, free work provided internet access) after a four (or more) day weekend that has come to be known as Cyber Monday.
In the past the retailers were hesitant to let people know ahead of time what the deals and special would be, to the point of filing a lawsuit or two. However, now the smarter retailers are using this as free publicity and what store does not want people to know what they have on sale, particularly if they don't have to pay for it? (How much do you think Apple would have had to pay to get iPhone stories in every major news outlet? more money than they have, for sure - but since it was new it was free, allowing the retailer to pass the savings on to you, since in the end advertising has to be paid for some way or another.) CyberMonday.org is the centerpiece of this connection between you and the sellers, listing deals and providing email alerts that let you know when new cyber monday sales have been posted.
There's no way I was lining up in front of a Best Buy at 6am, particularly on a Monday workday, but with news of their
bfads and cyber monday deals it was easier and cheaper to do it from work, the free shipping meant not even having to turn the car on to collect my purchases.
Which is why, even in this day and age of several majour search engines tirelessly indexing and cross linking the various pages and posts on the world wide web it still helps to have a single site that collects the data on a single topic, and if you are looking for Christmas shopping deals that crop up right around Thanksgiving, specifically on the first Monday when we all wearily head back into work (and that nice, fast, free work provided internet access) after a four (or more) day weekend that has come to be known as Cyber Monday.
In the past the retailers were hesitant to let people know ahead of time what the deals and special would be, to the point of filing a lawsuit or two. However, now the smarter retailers are using this as free publicity and what store does not want people to know what they have on sale, particularly if they don't have to pay for it? (How much do you think Apple would have had to pay to get iPhone stories in every major news outlet? more money than they have, for sure - but since it was new it was free, allowing the retailer to pass the savings on to you, since in the end advertising has to be paid for some way or another.) CyberMonday.org is the centerpiece of this connection between you and the sellers, listing deals and providing email alerts that let you know when new cyber monday sales have been posted.
There's no way I was lining up in front of a Best Buy at 6am, particularly on a Monday workday, but with news of their
bfads and cyber monday deals it was easier and cheaper to do it from work, the free shipping meant not even having to turn the car on to collect my purchases.
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