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OfficeMax Cyber Monday Deals
November 29, 2009
 OfficeMax has some good deals on Cyber Monday. The special product offers and deals will be live on the OfficeMax.com website starting at 12am on Monday, November 30th. There will be limited quantities so be sure to shop early. Here is a list of the offers.
You can find more Cyber Monday deals here and here.
Posted on November 29, 2009
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Cyber Monday Sales Up 15%
December 5, 2008
 PC Magazine reports that data from ComScore shows a 15% improvement in Cyber Monday sales for 2008 when compared to 2007. Web cash registers recorded $846 million in sales, a solid jump from the $733 million generated in 2007. Websites like Shop.org's CyberMonday.com led the sales charge with categorized deals and hourly specials.
The jump in sales is a good sign for what has been a very bad economic period. The big question is what happens during the rest of December? Is Cyber Monday an exception because people were simply looking for the best deals or will the buying continue at a +15% pace above last year for the rest of the holiday shopping period. A few other stories on Cyber Monday here, here, here and here.
Posted on December 5, 2008
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Cyber Monday Disaster For Yahoo
November 27, 2007
 On Cyber Monday many of Yahoo's merchants were unable to proces orders when Yahoo's shopping check-out service stopped working. CNET reports that the issues lasted from 6 a.m. until 1 p.m. and were not completely back to normal until 6 p.m. This made Cyber Monday one frustrating day for Yahoo merchants and for any shoppers trying to purchase items.
The problems started around 6 a.m. PT Monday with outages in Yahoo's systems that power the merchant stores, according to Yahoo's Yodel Anecdotal blog. The issues lasted until about 1 p.m. PT when transactions began going through at a much higher rate, albeit much slower. By 6 p.m. PT things were back to normal, the blog entry said.
That's at least seven hours with no service, and then another five hours with slow service, on what is believed to be a huge online-shopping day.
"We deeply regret the inconvenience this caused to both our merchants and their shoppers. Our customers' expectations were not met, nor were our own. And we are moving mountains inside Yahoo to find out why and how this happened, and to take steps to try to ensure it doesn't happen again," Rich Riley, senior vice president of Yahoo's online channel division, wrote in the entry, which also includes the words "mea culpa" in a purple box. "As for the future, rest assured that we are taking the necessary steps to prepare for the peak holiday selling season. We have technical and customer relations staff mobilized and ready to support our partners."
I don't think that will do much to pacify Yahoo customers who were livid and threatening to cancel their accounts.
"Absolute disaster for us...We were having a record weekend and now this...What a disgrace for Yahoo to have issues on one of the most important days of the year," a Webmaster with the alias "jwrunner" wrote in WebMasterWorld discussion group.
Tech Check has a few more comments from uhappy Yahoo merchants. Yahoo's apology the for Cyber Monday disaster can be found here.
Posted on November 27, 2007
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