Game Systems, MP3 Players, American Girl Items and Star Wars Action Figures Among Early Holiday Sales Leaders on eBay.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- With millions of buyers and sellers, the eBay (eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.ebay.com) The major auction service on the Web. eBay popularized the concept of buying and selling online, and both individuals and commercial enterprises list items for sale. marketplace is a real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. barometer of what's really happening in popular culture and what products are the real "must-haves" this season. As an early glimpse into this year's holiday shopping trends, the eBay marketplace is showing that the Xbox A video game console from Microsoft that was designed to compete with Sony's PlayStation and Nintendo's GameCube. Introduced in 2001 with a 733 MHz Pentium III CPU, 5x DVD drive and custom-designed graphics processor, the Xbox also includes four game controller ports, Ethernet networking 360, Apple iPod Nanos A flash-based digital music player from Apple, introduced in 2005. Like larger iPod models, the nano has a color screen. Although the nano name suggests ultra-small "nanotechnology," the iPod shuffle is actually smaller. See iPod. , Star Wars action figures, American Girl American Girl, may refer to:
eBay Marketplace Research, the new service that offers sellers and buyers visibility into important listing, bidding and pricing trends in the eBay marketplace, was used to determine these actual sales data and search results. http://www.ebay.com/marketplaceresearch Game On! Xbox 360, the new game system available next week, has been a hot pre-order 1. (graph theory) pre-order - traversal. 2. (theory) pre-order - A relation R is a pre-order if it is reflexive (x R x) and transitive (x R y R z => x R z). If it is also antisymmetric (x R y R x => x = y) then it is a partial ordering. product on eBay with nearly 8,200 items selling over the last 30 days at an average sold price (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) of $525. Sony Playstation Sony Playstation - Playstation Portable (PSP (PlayStation Portable) See PlayStation. ), the top search term on eBay just ahead of Xbox 360, has sold at a rate of 14 per hour over the past week versus 22 Xbox 360 systems an hour over the same period. (Reflects last 30 days ending Nov. 14)
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Sold Items Average Sold Price Average Bids
Game Systems -- Last 30 days -- Last 30 days Per Item
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Xbox 360 pre-sales 8,170 $525 15
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Sony PSP 10,806 $235 11
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Play that Funky funky - Said of something that functions, but in a slightly strange, klugey way. It does the job and would be difficult to change, so its obvious non-optimality is left alone. Often used to describe interfaces. Music iPod, iPod Nano and iPod Mini A hard disk-based digital music player from Apple. Introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2005, the Mini was the first smaller model of the iPod. Although its hard disk capacity was limited to a maximum of 6GB, the Mini players were very popular. See iPod. rank No. 3, 4 and 6, respectively, in searches on eBay, and this is translating into high sales numbers. Over 3,400 of the recently-released iPod Nanos have sold -- the black model selling more than 2-to-1 over the white. Of the iPod Minis, blue, silver and pink models are the most popular among eBay shoppers. (Reflects last 30 days ending Nov. 14)
Sold Items Average Sold Price
MP3 Players -- Last 30 days -- Last 30 days MSRP
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iPod Nano 4GB
Black (1,000 songs) 2,332 $229 $249
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iPod Nano 4GB
White (1,000 songs) 1,072 $229 $249
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Star Wars Booming All things Star Wars continue to be a force, including action figures: More than 106,000 sold over the past 30 days -- about 2.5 per minute. (Reflects last 30 days ending Nov. 14) Top Star Wars Action Sold Items Average Sold Price Figure Categories Last 30 days Last 30 days ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prequels (1999-Now) 41,338 $19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neo-Classic (1990- 2000) 30,461 $15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vintage (1977-89) 26,446 $32 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Who's That Girl? Meanwhile, American Girl dolls and accessories appear to be the "It' kids toy of the season. Over the past 30 days, nearly 23,000 American Girl items have been sold on eBay.com -- a rate of one every two minutes. (Reflects last 30 days ending Nov. 14)
Sold Items Average Sold Price
Dolls Last 30 days Last 30 days
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American Girl items 22,790 $30
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It Takes a (Snow) Village As eBay buyers express their personal holiday style in the home, snow villages and Swarovski ornaments Ornaments are a frequent embellishment to music. Sometimes different symbols represent the same ornament, or vice versa. Different ornament names can refer to an ornament from a specific area or time period. have become hot selling on eBay. Over 2,500 snow villages sold over the past week, a 15 percent increase over the previous seven days, while nearly 4,000 Swarovski ornaments sold over the last 30 days. (Reflects last 7 days ending Nov. 14) Items Sold Week over Week Average Collectibles last week Growth Sold Price ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snow Villages 2,562 Up 15% $28 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Swarovski Ornaments 1,296 Up 24% $50 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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