- Cyber Monday holiday shopping weekend was the best ever for Kindle Fire tablets and Kindle e-readers.
- With thousands of Tech Advisors on call Christmas Day, Amazon beat its goal for Mayday button response time -- the avg response was 9 seconds (compare with Obamacare website)
- Amazon's digital media selection grew to more than 27 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, books, audiobooks, and popular apps and games in 2013.
- Prime Instant Video selection increased from 33K to more than 40K movies and TV episodes in 2013. Instant Video now includes more than 150K movies and TV episodes.
- Prime was so popular this holiday, that Amazon limited new Prime membership signups during peak periods to ensure service to current members was not impacted by the surge in new membership.
- On Cyber Monday, customers ordered more than 36.8 million items worldwide, which is a record-breaking 426 items per second.
- More than half of Amazon customers shopped using a mobile device this holiday.
- Tablets: Kindle Fire HD; Kindle Fire HDX 7"; Kindle Fire HDX 8.9"
- TVs: Samsung 32" Smart LED HTDV; Samsung 40" LED HDTV; Samsung 22" Slim LED HDTV
- Laptops: Samsung Chromebook; ASUS Transformer Book; Acer Chromebook
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Speaking of Fees
From the print edition, Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, December 24, 2013, p B5.
The MoneyGram AccountNow Pre-Paid Visa Card (can you spell S-C-A-M?)
- $9.95 monthly fee
- $4.95 activation fee
- $2.50 fee for each ATM withdrawal
- $1.00 fee each time the balance is checked on line
- no monthly fees
- no activation fee,
- one free ATM withdrawal each month
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