Amazon’s 12th holiday season is best ever

Posted December 28, 2006 at 01:04 PM by Adam Berger

Section: Tech News, Audio, Communications, Computers, Gadgets / Other, Gaming, Imaging, Peripherals, Web, Websites

Wow you guys got some great presents this holiday season. Not only were the electronics flowing but so were clothing, books, movies, music, and more. On December 11th, Amazon customer orders exceeded 4 million items, the highest ever, and the Amazon Customers Vote promotion had the store selling 1,000 Xbox 360s in 29 seconds and 1,000 Axion portable DVD players in 34 seconds. Did we forget to mention that users like you and I, gunning for the 360, actually crashed the “world’s largest online retailer.“

Here are some Amazon holiday facts:

One of Amazon.com’s most remote shipments was Mission Impossible - The Complete First Season (1966) shipped to Wainwright, Alaska. Amazon sold enough orange flavored Airborne health supplements to supply every passenger on 192 Boeing 747s. Enough coffee pods were sold to make coffee for everyone in Austin, Texas. Amazon’s Electronics store sold its most expensive MP3 player to date in 2006, the $19,999 Trekstor i.Beat Organix Gold 1GB MP3 player. The last Prime order placed on December 22nd in time for Christmas delivery contained a Bogen-Manfrotto Classic Tripod (Silver) delivered to Norman, Oklahoma on December 23rd.

And now onto the top Gadgetell related items sold this holiday season:

Tops in video game hardware were the Nintendo DS Lite available in white, pink and black as well as Play Station 2 and the Xbox 360. Top sellers in Consumer Electronics include Apple iPods (various), Canon Powershot Digital Elph Cameras and Garmin GPS Systems. Top Software titles include World of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade (not yet released), The Sims 2 Pet Expansion Pack (Windows Me, 98, XP, 2000) and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5 (Windows XP). In PCs, the top sellers were the Apple MacBook 13.3” Notebook PC in white and black and the Sony VAIO 15.4” Notebook PC. Headsets led the Wireless Accessories top sellers including the Logitech Mobile Express Bluetooth Headset, Plantronics Voyager 510 Bluetooth Headset and the Motorola H700 Bluetooth Headset.

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