Amazon Report Record Holiday Sales with 108 Million Items Ordered
December 29, 05
One retailer with an excuse to celebrate this New Year is Amazon.com, who announced on Monday that the 2005 holiday season finished as its best ever, with the company's 'Holiday Delight-O-Meter surpassing 108 million items ordered for the first time.
The Delight-O-Meter tracks the approximate number of items ordered from Amazon.com, and its worldwide websites, and third party sellers, as well as Amazon.com owned items ordered at Syndicated Stores domains.
The 2005 holiday season also brought another single-day record with the Delight-O-Meter tracking more than 3.6 million items ordered, or 41 items per second, on December 12.
Top selling jewelry items included a 20" sterling silver eternity cross pendant, a diamond circle pendant, and a floating heart pendant with diamond. Watches also sold well. Among the top sellers were the Invicta Men's Automatic Pro Diver S2, the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and Movado Women's Amarosa watches.
The most expensive item purchased in Amazon.com's Jewelry & Watches store was a $94,000 pair of diamond earrings. The last order placed on December 22 in time for Christmas delivery contained 14 karat yellow gold four prong 4mm square sapphire stud earrings. The earrings were delivered to
"To our customers around the world--thank you," said Jeff Bozos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a happy new year."