Hope you all got a nice little piece of the Holiday 2005 eCommerce pie! Record breakers include: Amazon gets a record 3.6 million orders in one day. Visa holiday 2005 online shopping purchases up 48% over last year – to a total of $2.7 billion!

SEATTLE-Dec. 26, 2005- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the 2005 holiday season finished as its best ever, with the company’s Holiday Delight-O-Meter surpassing 108 million items ordered for the first time. The 2005 holiday season also brought another single-day record with the Delight-O-Meter tracking more than 3.6 million items ordered, or 41 items per second, on Dec. 12th.

# Amazon.com 2005 Holiday Facts (www.amazon.com only) If all of the tents sold in Amazon.com’s Sports & Outdoors store were stacked on top of each other, they would top 30,000 feet, which is higher than Mt. Everest.

Picked up the above story at Threadwatch.org:Finally! Online Shopping is Back! “Online shopping is back, and it’s bigger and better than it ever was before (even back in the late 90s). Not only is this good news for online retailers, it’s good news for the search engines, it’s good news for search engine marketers who ultimately are the ones who help online retailers get found on the web.”


DMNews.com – Visa E-Commerce Sales for Dec. 19-25 Surge 48.4 Percent to $2.7B
“Visa cardholders in the Dec. 19-25 week charged $2.7 billion on e-commerce transactions, up 48.4 percent from the year-ago period.”