Cyber Monday Sales Set $2Billion Record

While Cyber Monday sales didn’t yet hit the $2 trillion predicted industry that the “Internet of Things” is forecasted to become by 2019 as reported by the Inquisitr, the most recent Cyber Monday did better than some experts predicted.

According to Time, Cyber Monday set a big record – with the Monday following Thanksgiving reaching $2.04 billion in online e-commerce sales. That’s a Cyber Monday sales increase of 17 percent more than the Cyber Monday of one year ago, which comScore calls the heaviest online spending day in history – noting that the five days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday pulled in $6.6 billion from customers performing their Cyber Monday buying on desktop computers alone.

Even shoppers who missed a major amount of Cyber Monday deals – or those who only completed part of their Christmas list shopping on Cyber Monday – can still find deals by using sneaky online shopping tactics that Forbes lays out, explaining how shoppers can perform certain functions while web surfing to find the best sales.

Those post Cyber Monday tricks include using a different mobile device or computer to check and double check the prices you’re being offered, just to make sure you’re being shown the lowest price of an item. Customers can even logout of their online accounts for various stores, clear their browser’s cache to try and save cash, and find the best online deals.

Another tactic for finding Cyber Monday kinds of deals is to place an item in your cart on various websites, but wait a day or two to purchase the item. Some online retailers send customers discounts in the interim – Forbes lists 17 retailers that do so, like Bed Bath & Beyond, Dick’s Sporting Goods, JC Penney, Macy’s, Office Max, Williams-Sonoma and others – just to encourage you to complete your sales transaction with that specific store.

Cyber Monday sales may have gone through the roof and blasted past predictions of lower sales, but Cyber Monday isn’t the only time of year to get online deals. Plenty of shoppers frequent sites like Retail Me Not or Coupon Craze to find deals all year long or search for specific store deals like an “Overstock coupon” or “Amazon promo code” to find ways to save well before Cyber Monday has occurred or well after Cyber Monday has elapsed.

Either way, with Cyber Monday sales hitting record sales numbers, it can only bode well for those who are winning at the online retail website game.

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