Amazon was selling 426 ITEMS PER SECOND on Cyber Monday.
Amazon dun good this holiday season. Like, way good. I thought I was crushing it sell my crusty socks-turned-Jennifer Lawrence puppets. Sold three! One to Rendar, one to my fiance, one to my Mom. And Rendar didn’t even cry as I got my money from him at spork point, unlike the other two.
But man, Amazon did way better than me.
Just like last year, Amazon is reporting that the 2013 shopping season was its biggest yet, not just in terms of its sales, but also with its services. The company announced today that on Cyber Monday alone, more than 36.8 million items were ordered worldwide, up from last year’s 26.5 million items — that’s about 426 items purchased per second. Amazon Prime broke records as well, gaining more than 1 million new members in the third week of December.
Kindles and Kindle Fire tablets topped Amazon’s bestseller charts, with most sales coming over the Cyber Monday weekend. Once again, Amazon held back on the hard numbers for those sales, but even without much-needed context, it is clear that Amazon isn’t suffering when it comes to its tablet devices. Also, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, both of which were released close to Black Friday, saw sales of about 1,000 units per minute at their peak.