Cyber Monday is the recent trend of stores creating unique sales for the Monday directly following Black Friday to encourage shoppers to make purchases online. Students at Duke range from those who looked forward to Cyber Monday to those who have not even heard of it. The Chronicle's Hong Zhu talked with Dukies about their Cyber Monday experiences.
“Spending money is amazing. I bought something on Disney.com.”
-Nandini Srinivasan, sophomore
“I didn’t buy anything. I prefer Black Friday since you can physically go to stores. Buying online isn’t as fun.”
-Kayla Hudson, sophomore
“I’ve heard of it, now that you say it, but I’ve never bought anything or gotten into it.”
-Mollie Breen, freshman
“The interesting about Cyber Monday is that it’s purposely designed to interfere with work—people shop online at work. I actually didn’t end up buying anything because there’s nothing I need right now.”
-Ruiji Jiang, junior
“I looked at stuff online, but I didn’t buy anything.”
-Hernan Perla, junior
“I don’t trust websites with my credit card information, especially on Cyber Monday, because I think there’s a higher chance of being scammed.”
-Jordan DeWalt, sophomore
“Cyber Monday’s a good thing, I guess. People get trampled to death on Black Friday, but nobody’s getting trampled to death on Cyber Monday, so I like it.”
-Nick Chilson, freshman
“I didn’t buy anything. I don’t know what it is.”
-Issac Blakeney, Sophomore
“I think it’s kind of lame because I already bought my stuff on Black Friday.”
-Lucy Yao, senior
“I didn’t do Cyber Monday, but I bought stuff online on Friday, primarily on Amazon for school. For Black Friday, stuff gets marked down on Wednesday, so I figured some prices would already be marked down online on Friday.”
-Cory Lancaster, sophomore
“I’ve heard of it from websites, but I’ve never purchased anything.”
-Jonathan Sanchez, junior
“I think it’s interesting that sales records get broken every year, like how this year was a record-breaking year. Each year it gets worse and worse. I didn’t do anything for Black Friday or Cyber Monday.”
-Andrew Hochradel, junior
“I saw Facebook statuses about it, but that’s about it.”
-Andres Tello, senior
“What’s Cyber Monday? Oh! Yeah, I know what that is. I have a midterm on Monday, so I’m not thinking about much other than that.”
-Yara Alemi, freshman
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