Christmas shopping: Lockdown diaries: Technophiles are using the pandemic to splurge on their Christmas lists
The pandemic may have forced us to stay at home but that isn’t stopping techies worldwide from splurging a little on their Christmas presents this year. A recent eBay survey found that techies made 40 million purchases per month during the holidays. Categories like video games and consoles, mobile phones and accessories, computer and laptops and consumer electronics observed the highest demand while demand for vintage electronics, smartphones and video game accessories spiked by 69 per cent, 62 per cent and 60 per cent respectively. eBay also revealed that techie shoppers spent 12 mins pe...