Review News Black Friday & Cyber Monday

[Graybeard]

Care to discuss your successes and failures for this annual event?
I am just buying stuff --direct from merchants I normally do business with ...

Do you have a horse in the race?

 

[Graybeard]

Cyber Monday's reports are just starting to come in ...

 

[azgold]

I haven't looked for Cyber Monday deals yet, plan to do that right after I leave here. Like you, I've only been buying.

I expect there was some money made the past couple of days by affiliates who were ready for it, though.

Here are some stats for Canada: Canada: expected spend on Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 | Statista

If anyone is looking to promote Boxing Day sales to Canadians, this graph shows the percentages of people planning of taking advantage of those sales, as well as BF and CM: Canada: Black Friday & Cyber Monday shopping 2020-2023 | Statista

 

[Graybeard]

Well, things are going well I suppose:

Payments firm Block (SQ.N) noted BNPL transactions through Afterpay surged 19% over the weekend, adding that online shopping cart sizes were 3.9 times bigger than in-person shopping.

Klarna also said it saw a 29% increase in orders placed by U.S. shoppers on Black Friday.