30th Nov 2009
Ebay and Black Friday
Ebay has released a very cool map/video of Black Friday transactions on their website, you can see it here:
http://www.ebayholiday.com/black-friday
If your not familar with Black Friday, its a mainly US phenomia where retailers enter into the “Black” for the year with the beginning of the Christmas holiday shopping. Most retailers offer significant discounts to get people shopping, and it seems that this trend matchs well with Ebay Transactions online.
Of particular interest is the number of Transactions that appear on the East Coast. Ebay original started as on the West Coast but it would appear to be much more widely penetrated across the East Coast of the US or prehaps East Coast retailers are more aggressive with their Black Friday sales/discounts…
Note: This post can also be found on colin.smillie.ca
Ebay has released a very cool map/video of Black Friday transactions on their website, you can see it here:
http://www.ebayholiday.com/black-friday
If your not familar with Black Friday, its a mainly US phenomia where retailers enter into the “Black” for the year with the beginning of the Christmas holiday shopping. Most retailers offer significant discounts to get people shopping, and it seems that this trend matchs well with Ebay Transactions online.
Of particular interest is the number of Transactions that appear on the East Coast. Ebay original started as on the West Coast but it would appear to be much more widely penetrated across the East Coast of the US or prehaps East Coast retailers are more aggressive with their Black Friday sales/discounts…
Note: This post can also be found on colin.smillie.ca
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