Q3 Online Retail Sales Jump 23% Y/Y

[mandy]

Online retail sales in the United States jumped 23 percent, to US$28.4 billion, during the third quarter of this year compared with the same July-September period in 2006.

The retail surge was led by sales of video games, consoles and accessories, which showed a year-to-year increase of 199 percent, according to the Internet analysis firm comScore of Reston, Va.

Following games as top performers during the period were consumer electronics (excluding PC peripherals) with a leap of 58 percent in sales, toys and hobbies with a 57 percent increase, and event tickets with a 54 percent advance...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/BQS2nzzU...ture.xhtml

A related article from Randy Smythe:

comScore just released their 3Q ecommerce numbers for the US and they paint a completely different picture about ecommerce than what I would have expected after looking at eBay’s business over the last year...

eBay is the largest auction business online and its US GMV grew 10% Y/Y in the 3rd quarter (3% of that growth came from StubHub which is a FP (fixed price) business). Some estimates put eBay’s GMV from FP and BIN in CORE at 35% so if we just look at where the growth in eBay’s business is coming from, it's not auctions...

full article: http://rksmythe.blogspot.com/2007/10/eco...ot-so.html

[maggie777]

comScore just released their 3Q ecommerce numbers for the US and they paint a completely different picture about ecommerce than what I would have expected after looking at eBay’s business over the last year...

eBaY isn't representative of ecommerce as a whole......thank god.  ;D