Mega Monday: How is it for you?

[DanMartin]

The e-commerce experts tell us that today is 'Mega Monday', the day in the year when online retailers see a huge uplift in orders as the Christmas rush begins.

Is the day something that small businesses experience or is it something only for the likes of Amazon and Play.com? Let me know how Mega Monday plays out for you.

 

[jlmns]

Not a lot going on for us today yet - we trade predominantly through eBay and our figures appear to be on a par with our usual month-end just before payday. Suppose it might kick off at lunchtime.

James

 

[Bill1954]

Normal day but plumbing products don't make good Xmas pressies

 

[Esk247]

Normal day but plumbing products don't make good Xmas pressies

They don't???

I best not give the missus her xmas pressie then...guttering and a downpipe. i get it wrong every year!

 

[Deleted member 74679]

I'm actually finding it very busy (sales on Amazon and website) even though my product isn't really a christmas gift type present (though more so than guttering ).

I understood Dec 4th and 5th are predicted to be the busiest online xmas shopping days.

I've got all my christmas purchases identified in a list, but will not be buying them until after pay-day.

 

[JMRidley]

Not sure about mega Monday yet but we had a mega Sunday yesterday!

 

[a1anm]

Not sure about mega Monday yet but we had a mega Sunday yesterday!

Same, yesterday was our busiest day in terms of sales since we started trading 18 months ago. Today has got off to a promising start as well

 

[shaununo]

Just had the slowest weekend of sales for the entire year I think, But I don't have many xmas related products to be honest and the rest of the year is usually pretty good for me, but mega monday is still looking bleak!

 

[SamStones]

Pretty busy here. In terms of dispatches after the weekend we have just had the busiest day of the year in terms of the number of orders dispatched. We were up 35% on the number of orders dispatched last Monday. Sales throughout the day are good, but we only have a limited selection of Christmas Gifts this year.

 

[kulture]

The order tap seemed to be switched on Sunday afternoon. Massive volume of sales from then till Monday morning. Then presumably people went to work.

 

[simplyadvertise]

I don't have an eccomerce site but do make sales online, today... nothing so far but last night was the same then a huge hour between 10pm and 11pm..

Take it, it's parents buying after the kids have gone to bed

Rob

 

[Jayser100]

Yesterday was steady for us, the weekend was a busy one on Amazon BUT so was LAST weekend. Based on my own experiences, I'd say the 'rush' started a week earlier than they predicted (which is slightly surprising given the fact most people hadn't been paid at that point).

 

[kulture]

I am down on last year for UK sales. The "rush" is more like a slow crawl. Yes more orders, yes more this week than last week, BUT not as many as last year.

 

[AbsolutNut]

Sales are up 50% on Amazon UK compared to last Monday and about 150% normal business volume. If last year's trend is repeated we expect to be even busier from next week.

I thought yesterday was Cyber Monday and next Monday is Mega Monday. Just a moot point. We knew it was complete tosh however when it was reported in the press that the previous Monday (21st November) would be the busiest. It was said that people would shop earlier to avoid the delivery delays last year caused by the severe weather. Way too early and in our opinion / experience it always peaks around the first Monday of December (Mega Monday).

Difficult to draw any overall comparisons with last year however as we are selling a wider range of products.

Steve

 

[Spearmint]

Normal day but plumbing products don't make good Xmas pressies

I dunno! I wouldn't mind a new boiler

 

[Chunkford]

I work in the mornings at my local sorting office doing the specials and tracked and today was just crazy!
The number of parcels coming in from amazon, M&S and play (in that order, with amazon way in the lead) is an eye opener!

 

[deniser]

Our Monday was slightly busier than normal but we don't sell Christmas gifty things either.

 

[quikshop]

They got the date wrong, mega Monday will be the 5th

 

[SillyJokes]

Agree that predictions of cyber monday being in November were completely wrong, however maybe it was an attempt by Amazon's PR people to get people to order earlier and not on the actual cyber Monday which I've usually seen as the first Monday in December.

We've been very busy last two weeks but we do a lot of stuff people want before Christmas like Nativity costumes and decorations which people generally want a few weeks before the big day.

 

[Hertford Bob]

13th of December was our busiest day last year, I expect it to be similar this year, the media like to get people spending early but check out Amazon on Alexa and the peak is a lot later than they'd have you believe.

 

[paretowasright]

Our busiest weekend was the 21st so a week earlier than last year.
The strikes on Weds also seemed to cause a spike in sales.
I also think this Cyber Monday thing is just an excuse for some of the 'authority's' on ecommerce to make themselves look good as its actually spread out across Sunday/Monday/Tuesday. Their latest bs is 'rebound Thursday' (returns) so no doubt they have some spin Doctor in the agency thinking these things up in between his skinny lattes

 

[Jayser100]

I agree it's all rubbish, as I said much earlier on this thread we started getting busy on Amazon that same weekend, 21st and it's been consistent since. This weekend has been a little busier still, which I expected because a lot of people will have been paid on Wednesday. I don't think Monday will much busier than any other day this coming week - I think it will be steadily busy, tailing off after next weekend as people get nervous about the prospect of receiving what they order online in time.

 

[JPincas]

It kicked off last weekend for us but has been even busier (25% or so) this weekend. Because we sell food, I think people leave their Christmas shopping with us a little later than purchases for other presents.