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Resources for Journalists Covering Black Friday

here is a slew of resources to help enhance your coverage of pitch-black friday:deal-finding sitesi am also becoming a fan of ubid as an alternative to ebay. if a seller offers, say five televisions, then five people can win, but all five tvs could be at different prices. the sixth bidder sees what he or she is going to be enduring to come up with to quit fixed the fifth-place bidder. or a bidder can put up passably not to get knocked off the list. it is more transparent, i think, than the ebay demand operation.ebay is offering some superb “no reserve” deals on black friday. i set up to say that i’ve enjoyed the reliability of ebay sellers throughout the years.shopping and retail information sitesno incredulity, many of this year’s black friday stories will be focused on how the poor economy is affecting sales. we’ll have a gambler philosophy as to how starless friday sales went once the nrf releases its black friday weekend retail survey results at 4 p.m. est on sunday, nov. 30. you’ll be able to presume from the release at www.nrf.com/holidays. for more information about who to in from the nrf, afflict this page.the wall row fortnightly offers some advantageous insight helter-skelter online spending:the amount of money consumers spent online on retail goods between november 1 and november 23 fell 4 percent from the same period last year, from $8.51 billion in 2007 to $8.19 billion in 2008. thats according to comscore, which tracks rightful about the total that happens online.

ComScore also surveyed 500 consumers and found that 47 percent said theyll buy fewer gifts this year and 46 percent said theyll buy less expensive gifts. The silver lining is that a third of Americans havent even started shopping yet. Thats in part why comScore is predicting that consumers will spend online the same amount$29.2 billionas they did last year when all is said and done.

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usa today reports:

A Consumer Reports survey of about 1,000 consumers out last week found 25 percent said they’d be shopping on Black Friday, up from 21 percent last year. In another, by Maritz Research of 1,100 consumers, 41 percent said they would be shopping on Black Friday, up from 37 percent in 2007. About 10 percent of stores’ holiday sales are on Black Friday, says the International Council of Shopping Centers. The National Retail Federation and BIGresearch say about 66 million peo

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