The best Cyber Monday deals in tech

But Clare Rozensweig of the Better Business Bureau said shoppers should also be on the lookout for scammers. “Then they will infect that website”. “So you have to look at the URls, you have to look at the website carefully”.

That seems to have taken a toll on brick-and-mortar shopping.

Black Friday was the Tesco Direct website’s busiest ever 24 hours online and Currys PC World’s website had over 6.5 million visitors between Friday and Sunday.

“Consumers are recognizing the Internet is the place to go for a deal any time, any day”, said Gene Alvarez, managing vice president of research firm Gartner. Sign up for the Kmart email list – text “CYBER” to 56278 – for various deals. Major retailers such as Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart, along with Amazon, are offering steep discounts. Top bargains at the start of the event included the LG 65-inch Ultra HDTV at $799.

The retail giant is introducing new deals every 10 minutes as part of its Cyber Monday offering which it has extended until Friday.

“Target.com’s site-wide15 percent discount is pretty aggressive and likely the best offer we’ve seen”, said Profitero’s Anderson.

While Black Friday has always been considered the typical start of the holiday shopping frenzy – and Snopes says one of the earliest uses of the terms came from disgruntled Philadelphia traffic cops bemoaning all the cars that created monstrous jams in the city – it was also an organic development as consumers used the long holiday weekend to begin their Christmas shopping. The NRF said that’s because some people have already been shopping online since Thanksgiving or Black Friday.

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But Thanksgiving and Black Friday are gaining fast. And 33.2 percent came from mobile devices, up from 27 percent a year ago. The company is offering special deals until December 5. The day after is usually a day off work for most offices, and most hit the shops for what has become known as “Black Friday”.

Target.com is offering a 15 percent site-wide discount, as well as 74 online “doorbusters” and department-wide deals throughout the week. Experts said more people are expected to spend more money online in 2015 with as many as one-in-four Americans buying something Monday.

“If you’re getting a really good deal on a computer, it’s because they’re trying to get rid of it”, he adds.

The name “Cyber Monday” was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s online arm, called Shop.org, to encourage people to shop online.