Cyber Monday: rebates at your fingertips

Given that Black Friday is a working day in US, many people (specially office clerks) can´t afford to go shopping at the malls, so they buy their presents online instead. Once they realized this, online stores created a special day for them.

Cyber Monday is how the Monday right after the Black Friday is called. That day, online stores offer the same kind of bargains as their physical counterparts.

Technology (gadgets, videogames, screens, Blu-Ray players, stereos, computers, home theaters and such) usually offers the best bargains since, netizens are more informed in that matter and like to browse for their product electronically themselves.

The first Cyber Monday took place in 2006 and, according to ComScore, online sales increased a 25% compared to the same day (when this promotion was not instituted) on 2005.

With several forms of payment like digital bank and third parties financial services (PayPal) available, online shopping during the holidays is the best you can do.

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Black Friday: he day with the best promotions of the year

Either on a film or on TV we have seen images of Americans camping at the gates of a store to be the first ones shopping during the rebates season. The first day of the mentioned season is known as Black Friday.

Since 2004, the Black Friday has been the day with the most shoppers at both department and specialty stores as it marks the beginning of the rebates season.

Black Friday is a good day to buy videogames as that day exists 2x1 or 3x2 rebates on selected titles. Despite many could think, many of the selected titles are current ones.

Black Friday has, like anything else, two faces: the good one and the bad one. The good one is related to the rebates while the bad one has to do with the psychosis that day generates when people, eager to buy, causes accidents, like the Wal-Mart employee trampled to death in New York.

Countries with a similar culture to American, like Canada, have adopted a Black Friday identical model, in order to keep their customers, given their closeness to US, Canadians used to the stars and stripes country. It´s unlikely that in Mexico, for example, a day like that to be organized.

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Which console is better: Wii, Xbox 360 or PS3?

Since Nintendo and Sega ruled the home consoles market 20 years ago, players have been debating on which is the best platform. Nowadays, with three options at the stores, the discussion continues.

Of course, the three consoles have their strengths: Xbox 360 has the best online game system and for some years its price tag was lower than the PlayStation 3; PlayStation 3 plays movies in Blu-Ray format, for some time, it was possible to install on it the Linux OS; Wii started the trend of the motion sensing controllers.

One of the sale arguments of the PlayStation 3 was the integrated Blu-Ray player, but Xbox 360 countered with the Video Marketplace, a digital service of online movie distribution that reached the first place in USA. Even Wii jumped into the digital entertainment train offering Netflix rentals, so there is not many difference on the multimedia section given that, formats come and go, but all of them reproduce audio and video.

Outside the realm of hot debates on which console is the best, there exist the sale numbers, those favoring Nintendo, who have sold more than 70 million consoles worldwide, followed by Microsoft and its 44 million units, leaving Sony on the third place with 38 million systems sold.

Without entering in details, it may look that the three consoles offer the same: online gaming, audio and video play, social networks integration and motion sensing controllers. What would be the factor that determines the winner? Innovation and exclusivities.

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