VoIP & Gadgets Blog

VoIP & Gadget blog with the latest news in the VoIP and gadget space, wireless, mobile phones, product reviews, opinion & analysis.

About Me (Full Bio)

VoIP & Gadgets Blog:

Tom Keating: CTO, VP, Founder TMC Labs; B.S. Computer Engineering, 14 yrs telecom experience, 28 yrs programming, tinkering with & breaking computers. Gadgets & VoIP are favorite topics on this blog

Virtualization for midsize businesses: reduce cost, improve service and manage...

Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center

Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers

Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales

Despite one of the worst economic climates in decades, consumer spending on Black Friday hit $10.6 billion, 3% higher than the day after Thanksgiving in 2007, according to researcher ShopperTrak.

Gadgets accounted for nine of the top 10 most popular Black Friday products, PriceGrabber said.

Data from PriceGrabber.com shows that online consumers are taking advantage of promotions on popular electronics, including LCD and plasma TVs, Blu-ray disc players, digital SLR cameras, laptops and video game consoles.

The most popular products on Black Friday:

Nintendo Wii Console
Ugg Australia 'Classic Short' Boot (how about that!)
Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-Ray Disc Player
Samsung LN52A650 52" LCD TV
Nintendo Wii Fit
Panasonic TH-42PX80U 42" Plasma TV
Sennheiser HD 555 Headphones
Canon EOS Rebel XSi Black SLR Digital Camera Kit
Acer Aspire One AOA110-1295 Notebook
Canon PowerShot A590 IS Black Digital Camera

And while we are at it, here are the Top 10 categories and percent growth over Black Friday 2007:

Women's Boots - 203%
Watches - 202%
Blu-ray/HD-DVD Players - 147%
Women's Sleep & Lounge Wear - 415%
Games & Puzzles - 151%
Women's Jackets - 110%
Music - 96%
Headphones - 103%
Women's Dresses - 107%
Women's Casual Shoes - 143%

More at PriceGrabber.com and The Washington Post.

December 1, 2008 4:42 PM |

0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Categories:

Tags:

View Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales news in Technorati

Technorati bookmark Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales in del.icio.us

bookmark Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales in del.icio.us

Del.icio.us Slashdot.com

Slashdot.com

Submit Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales to Digg.com

Twitter Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales

Related Entries to Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales

When One Less Gadget Is Better -- Set-Top Boxes Going Bye-Bye? - May 27, 2008
HP TVs and Lenovo PCs at Best Buy: Am I Seeing Correctly? - Apr 18, 2006
The World Is Becoming Flat - Dec 08, 2005
Life Got You Down? Buy a Video Game Console - Nov 13, 2008
Nintendo Gets New DSi Ready - Oct 31, 2008
Is It Time for 3D TV? - Oct 06, 2008
Everything in the World's Going Wireless - Aug 27, 2008
What Economy? TV Sales Surge Anyway - Aug 18, 2008
Shaun White for Nintendo Wii (Wee!!!!) - Jul 16, 2008
Is the Wii the Center of the Media Universe? - Jan 18, 2007

Listed below are links to sites that reference Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales:

Gadgets Help Drive Black Friday Sales TrackBack URL : http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/38310

Leave a comment

Name

Email Address

URL

Remember personal info?

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

Notify me of new comments?

Today

Tom Keating queued The Blind Side Tom Keating queued The Blind Side Tom Keating queued The Blind Side 2010-02-09T13:30:26Z 2010-02-09T13:30:26Z

Sunday

Tom Keating tweeted, "Where the heck is URL shortening in tweetdeck 4 iPhone? http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/" 2010-02-08T03:16:27Z 2010-02-08T03:16:27Z
Tom Keating tweeted, "Testing Twitterific. http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/" 2010-02-08T02:54:54Z 2010-02-08T02:54:54Z

Sunday

Tom Keating tweeted, "Moving a Data Center: Moving a data center can be fun. Yes, if you enjoy being up from 6am (Friday) to 2am (Satur... http://bit.ly/cX6L0j" 2010-01-31T09:06:10Z 2010-01-31T09:06:10Z
Tom Keating posted Moving a Data Center Tom Keating posted Moving a Data Center Tom Keating posted Moving a Data Center 2010-01-31T06:39:10Z 2010-01-31T06:35:04Z

Friday

Tom Keating tweeted, "Tearing down TMC's entire network infrastructure. My sweet beautiful network! [sniff] [sniff]" 2010-01-29T15:29:02Z 2010-01-29T15:29:02Z

Thursday

Tom Keating tweeted, "why the heck am I still awake when I have an all-nighter tomorrow moving the entire #TMCNet data center? (www.tmcnet.com) fun fun!" 2010-01-29T04:07:47Z 2010-01-29T04:07:47Z
Tom Keating tweeted, "No, Gremlins Didn't Eat TMCNet's Web Servers: Starting tomorrow around 7am, TMC will be shutting down its entire d... http://bit.ly/bS3OOn" 2010-01-29T04:03:22Z 2010-01-29T04:03:22Z

Mamrez: Hi guys , I'm looking for cracked MOBILELOG for iphone read more
Symplicity: Works amazing thanks :) read more
wirefly customer: I got my phone from wirefly and it turned out read more
Maher: Dear Sir, I am looking for a slim credit card read more
Nina: Yes, the ridiculous car. And Corvette it is all the read more
Ruth : I am sorry for ever putting U-Verse in, as all read more
Vijay: VOIP calls over 3G are now officially available. Just install read more
John: Nice work! Skype's always been lacking in the avatar stakes, read more
Dan Maloy: Come on, SOMEBODY'S gotta know what this music is!!!! Incredibly, read more
Nathan: The key is that you have to pair the BASE read more

2009
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2004
Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com:

Apple Antitrust Issues

On Rad's Radar?:

Endstream Plans

VoIP & Gadgets Blog:

Moving a Data Center

Communications and Technology Blog - Tehrani.com:

IfByPhone Interview ITEXPO East 2010 Miami

First Coffee:

Frost & Sullivan Webcast, LCEC and ENERGYprism, IDC for

On Rad's Radar?:

Freeside's new CEO

The Readerboard:

Tune In, Call in (And Donate), 'Hope for Haiti

VoIP & Gadgets Blog:

No, Gremlins Didn't Eat TMCNet's Web Servers