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Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whole-lotta-hype dept.

xsspd2004 writes "Despite a huge amount of hype, the Monday after Thanksgiving is historically only the 12th-biggest online shopping day of the year. Do a Google search on "Cyber Monday," and you get as many as 779,000 results. Not a bad haul for a term that was created just a week and a half ago."

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  1. Re:Are you trying to say... by MCraigW · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Walmart's credit card screen wasn't encrypted so I canceled out. Called customer service and not only did I get a real, well spoken, knowledgeable person in under a minute, but they pulled up exactly what I had tried to buy, took my card information, and got my unit shipped

    Yeah, that knowledgable person just entered your card information in the same form that you wouldn't use...