eBay: Over a Million Zhu Zhu Searches Last Weekend

If you’re keeping score, eBay tells me that on Black Friday alone there were 350,000 searches for Zhu Zhu Pets, the holiday’s season’s hottest can’t-find must-have toy. On Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined, eBay customers purchased about 30,000 of the robotic hamsters and related items.

Zhu Zhu Pets, which retail for about $10 a hamster, are sold out nearly everywhere, leading parents to stalk Wal-Mart aisles because they heard rumors of a new shipment coming in, and also leading certain entrepreneurial types to ask as much as $7,000 for a mammoth set of Zhu Zhus on eBay.

Even with occasionally extortion-esque prices, eBay is still your best bet for snagging a Zhu Zhu according to this “Savings Experiment” video of a WalletPop blogger shopping for his daughter. The video is cringe-worthy in its corniness, though I did enjoy the Benny Hill-like fast-forward walking around Times Square and the occasional “boing” sound effects one expects from a wacky morning radio duo.

Zhu Zhu Mania: Why Hamster Toys are Ruling Christmas

Done Deal: CBS Gives Green Light to Sitcom Based on Groupon

Daily deal giant Groupon is known for its peculiar sense of humor. There was the time the site “bought” April Fool’s Day. The introduction of marketing gimmicks like the creepy virtual discount wheel called “Clicky” can only be attributed to some offbeat sense of what’s amusing. And of course, from the beginning, subscribers have been reading Groupon’s trademark absurdist, careful-not-to-offend descriptions for deals arriving in their in-boxes. The fact that there’s a network sitcom in the works featuring Groupon is apparently no joke, however.

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The best way I have found to get hard-to-find items this Christmas is to use a free tool called az-grabber.net to watch Amazon automatically for restocks. This tool checks every few seconds and alerts me the instant my desired item is back in stock at retail. It even provides a quick-link so you can get yours before others without this tool.

For those interested, the site is:

http://www.az-grabber.net
http://money.blogs.time.com/2009/12/07/toy-craze-explained-a-zhu-zhu-pet-hamster-is-like-a-viral-infection/ Toy Craze Explained: A Zhu Zhu Pet Hamster Is Like a “Viral Infection” – It's Your Money – TIME.com

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