Released on = January 5, 2007, 12:23 am

Press Release Author = Jonnalyn Ajeda

Industry = Consumer Services

Press Release Summary = Hawthorn, Australia 5 January 2007--- The release of Think
Partnership\'s Online Shopping Statistics for the 2006 Holiday Season bares more than
just the habits of people as they buy and sell online.

Press Release Body = Hawthorn, Australia 5 January 2007--- The release of Think
Partnership\'s Online Shopping Statistics for the 2006 Holiday Season bares more than
just the habits of people as they buy and sell online. Think Partnership Inc. is an
international in interactive performance-based marketing, research, and related
Internet technologies. Generally, their findings is that most consumers ordered
their online purchases quite late in the holiday season.

People\'s busy and time-consuming lifestyles may be responsible for this, as it has
become quite normal for people to do their holiday shopping to the last minute. But
what Think Partnership\'s statistics reveals is that, now, consumers are putting more
faith in e-commerce and people who sell online generally, so much so that they are
willing to put their gift orders just a week before Christmas.

After all, in the thick of the holiday rush, it\'s not just about getting the best
buys, but making sure those holiday gifts arrive at the doorstep in time for
Christmas too. Inevitably, the holiday season is also a peak time for phishers and
other fraudalent online sellers, but this hasn\'t deterred consumers from making
their online purchases.

To quote from Think Partnership\'s results.
- Online traffic and buying continued to rise through December 18.
- From December 19-25 the number of online shopping carts created fell nearly 80
percent from previous weeks.
- The heaviest online shopping day in terms of carts created was Monday.
- The majority of online purchases were made on either Mondays or Tuesdays.
- The shopping cart abandonment rate was lowest on Mondays and Tuesdays.
- The average items per cart and the average cart value was higher between November
27 - December 18 than any other period during the year.

If anything, this simple slice of statistics will give online retailers and free
classified ads sites more insight to people\'s buying and selling habits. If more
people are made aware that the online market is a safe place to do business in, and
at the same time, more crackdowns are made to put a stop on scams, then more people
will readily embrace the online buy sell trade.

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