WAPW: Chewbacca Talking Dashboard Driver

The Weird Amazon Purchase of the Week this week is definitely the Chewbacca Talking Dashboard Driver. Having some sort of Dashboard Driver is weird enough – but Chewbacca? Every time you turn or stop, he just says “Rooooowwwwrrrrrrrrrrr”, I guess. That would be a funny gag gift, I suppose. Especially for a Star Wars nut. Regardless, I made about $1 from it.

Chewbacca Talking Dashboard Driver

Weird Amazon Purchase of the Week

This was a tough week to decide on a Weird Amazon Purchase of the Week.

Let’s start with the 3rd place entry. Even though I love this Firefly t-shirt, it isn’t very odd. But it is awesome.

For second place, I’m going with the Tattoos for the Elderly. I’ve just got to believe that it’s a gag gift. I don’t understand why you’d get them, but… Maybe they’d be funny for the right person?

And the winner is Sex in the City Perfume! And by winner, I mean loser. Seriously, who would buy this?

Black Friday versus Cyber Monday

So how’s your holiday shopping going? No, I’m not talking about getting gifts for all your nieces and nephews, I’m talking about your holiday marketing efforts! Things look pretty good on my end – there really is an big uptick in online shopping so far this year. But what about Black Friday vs Cyber Monday?

Black Friday at Amazon:
Clicks: 1558
Orders: 267

Cyber Monday at Amazon:
Clicks: 860
Orders: 156

That isn’t an apples/apples comparison, as a decent percentage of my Amazon sales are through PPC. But I still didn’t realize the disparity. What about traffic?

Black Friday Traffic:
Uniques: 5413
Pages: 12215

Cyber Monday Traffic:
Uniques: 6716
Pages: 13482

Well that’s interesting, and unexpected. Cyber Monday traffic was about 25% higher, but sales were about 40% lower. I wonder what that’s about – I’ll have to do some more research on that. I could come up with some theory about on Black Friday people were ready to buy, and the deals were Black Friday only deals, so people didn’t shop around as much… But I don’t know.

What did you see on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? The same thing?

Weird Amazon Purchase of the Week

Welcome to Week Two of Weird Amazon Purchase of the Week.   I know you’re all as excited as I am about this, so let’s get going.  The odd item from this week is:

Spam Musubi Rice Press

I had to do some research to figure out what the heck Spam Musabi Sushi is, and apparently it’s a fairly popular snack food in Hawaii and a few other places – it’s rice and fried spam tied together with seaweed. I’m not a huge fan of spam, but this looks pretty tasty. And I guess you need a sushi rice press if you want to make perfectly formed rice for your spam.

So, there you go! It makes perfect sense!

Weird Amazon Purchase of the Week

So one of my fun little hobbies is looking through all my Amazon affiliate accounts and finding the strangest thing that someone bought and I got affiliate credit for it.  The winner this month is…

A bucket of 72 ping pong balls!

I love playing ping pong, but 72?  What the hell are you going to do with 72 ping pong balls?  Or maybe I don’t want to know?

Anyway, thanks for buying them.  I made roughly $2.24 from your purchase.