Cyber Monday lures bargain hunters and slackers

from tricities

If you’re looking for a deal on your favorite video games, electronics, furniture and clothing you probably should be looking online today.

Promotional deals are bouncing into email “in” boxes and blinking banners across the internet. Toys R Us, Circuit City, Walmart, Target , and Sears are among those offering special deals. These range from free shipping to weeklong online exclusive offers.

Cyber Monday sales are up 42 percent from 2005 according to the National Retail Federation. This year 72 percent of retailers are planning special online deals to lure bargain hunters fishing around after Black Friday. Much like Black Friday, Cyber Monday is considered the unofficial kick off for holiday online shopping.

Consumers looking to shop from home and work are banking on big bargains today. The NRF expects 72 million shoppers to search the web for post-Thanksgiving deals. But the online shopping rush may place some workers jobs on the line.

According to a BIGresearch survey, 61-million Americans plan to shop online from work during the holiday season. Chicago based consulting firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas says bosses should brace for less productive workers around the office. Breaking and buying could leave a half a billion dollar ($488 million) deficit in worker productivity.

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Online merchants happy, so far

from CNNmoney

Sites eBay! & Amazon

say they're seeing bigger-than-expected

spike in traffic,

deals in first days of holiday shopping season

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Two online retail companies gave positive reports on the first days of the Thanksgiving weekend, saying sales were up significantly in the traditional holiday kickoff period from a year earlier.

eBay! said its Shopping.com site saw a 61 percent increase in Black Friday traffic from the 2006 period. Meanwhile, PriceGrabber.com, a comparison-shopping site run by Britain's Experian Group Ltd., said referrals from its site to participating merchants were up 47 percent on Black Friday from a year ago. According to both merchants, projections for online sales increases this season are in the 20 percent range, to about $33 billion. "Early signs from a very busy Black Friday show that many shoppers are grabbing their mouse instead of their car keys this holiday season," Jim Griffith, eBay Inc. dean of education, said in a statement.

Amazon 'Kindles' readers' imaginations
Both eBay and PriceGrabber said the Nintendo Wii game console was among the most popular items sold online. eBay said its namesake site sold 358 Wiis on Black Friday at an average price of $411.76, more than $161 above its suggested retail price. eBay said Webkinz pet toys were the hottest toys on the Shopping.com site this year. Both sides are expecting a bump up in traffic on Monday, a day often referred to as Cyber Monday because it's usually the first big day of holiday online shopping of the season. But the sites say they expect the second Monday in December - Dec. 10 this year - to be the busiest day for shopping online