Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Amazon.com gets record profit

At Christmas a huge number of users abroad decided to use the services of online shops. Especially popular was the world-famous Amazon.com. Interestingly, the sale of offline stores are falling, despite the holidays.

On December 15, reached peak sales of the above resource: every second users ordered about 72 different subjects. Total for the day was made 6.3 million purchases, the figure is 17% higher than the figures of last year. The average purchase price is 61 dollars.

Interestingly, the purchase is not only the residents of developed countries - all the goods were sent to 210 countries. Interestingly, the popular shopping was not only real, but virtual goods: for example, from 15 November to 10 December this online store to sell copies of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 every two and a half minutes.

Most of the goods in the category "Electronics" has become a 52-inch TV from Samsung, the player iPod Touch and notebook Acer Aspire One.

The most popular DVD - a copy of cartoons "Wall-E". Financial details of this month, Amazon is not.