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Nintendo Wii and Ugg Boots lead Black Friday sales
According to a recent report over at cnet , it looks as if the doom and gloom or the current financial crisis has been temporarily blown away by the Black Friday three days of traditional retail sales in the U.S.
The report indicated that retail sales were up 3 percent (this was 8.3 percent in 2007 over 2006), whilst online sales for the period rose by a whopping 11 percent over the 2007 figures.
Electronic goods being the flavour of the season with the Nintendo Wii console topping the list.
The Wii was dubbed the most searched-for product on eBay and sold over 3,000 units in the U.S on the online auction site.
Obviously, working off the Thanksgiving turkey was also a priority for Americans as they ordered 1,059 companion Wii-Fit⿿s go with their new consoles.
PriceGrabber.com listed the top online products for the three day period as:
Nintendo Wii console
Ugg Australia "classic short" boot
Sony BDP-S350 1080p Blu-ray disc player
Samsung LN52A650 52" LCD TV
Nintendo Wii Fit
Panasonic TH-42PX80U 42" plasma TV
Sennheiser HD 555 headphones
Canon EOS Rebel XSi Black SLR digital camera kit
Acer Aspire One AOA110-1295 notebook PC
Canon PowerShot A590 IS black digital camera
Shopping .com listed GPS units as a valued item, selling one every 9 minutes, whilst MP3 players were scooped up at the rate of one every 11 minutes.
Retailers, fearing a flat Black Friday period went all out this year with bundles and bargains; this included free shipping for online purchased products and a bunch of one-day-only offers in an attempt to drive up sales.
So pull on your Ugg boots, grab your GPS unit and join the hunt for a Nintendo Wii. Though given the fights that can break out , be careful out there.
Buy cheap Ugg boots
One hell of a year
We Say IU was the place to be in 2008
After watching him cover the youth beat for the 2008 election, few would have initially expected Luke Russert, son of the great late Tim Russert, to end up broadcasting on Election Day from the Indiana Memorial Union.
It was certainly a welcome respite given that, for far too long, most of the media attention received by the University was focused on the NCAA violations of Kelvin Sampson.
Coming here certainly seemed like a good call for Russert. The presidential race in Indiana was decided by some 26,000 votes �?? a number smaller than the enrollment at IU. Given the drastic turnout on this campus, we might very well have been a deciding factor in which way Indiana�??s 11 electoral votes swung.
This year has certainly been an exciting year for IU students to make and witness history. We were visited by everyone from Feist to Bill Clinton. John Edwards broke his media silence in the IU Auditorium. The president-elect himself, Barack Obama, dropped in on the Little 500 women�??s race and greeted patrons of Nick�??s English Hut.
Not everything that happened this year was particularly good. The IU Student Association had an election that ended in the disqualification of the party that was initially declared the winner. During the summer much of this campus was consumed by flood water. The recent economic recessions darkened the dreams of many Kelley students and made the victory lap that much more tempting.
Did we mention sports? No, we probably don�??t need to go there.
This year we got to take part in the only Indiana presidential primary that might ever mean anything, we hosted a gubernatorial debate and got to help choose the next leader of the free world. Could next year possibly be as exciting?
Probably not, but we will have to wait and see. Who would have thought 2008 would feature Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sparring in Bloomington or that Indiana would go for a Democratic candidate for the first time in 40 years?
Maybe 2009 will be the year University officials finally come up with a decent name for the Ora. L Wildermuth Intramural Center (hint: the new name should not include the word �??Wildermuth�??).
Maybe it will be the year we actually get a decent fall break.
Or maybe, just maybe, it will be the year Ugg boots and spandex finally go out of fashion.
