EToys fared better than many toy sites last year.More than 99percentt of its orders placed on or before Dec. 18 (its cutoff date for guaranteed Christmas delivery) arrived before Dec. 24, company officials said.
THIS is the season when office workers enter stealth shopping mode -- hiding gift lists beneath industry newsletters or clicking furiously through the online toy sites to choose a scooter before the boss drifts by again.
Some analysts say the shakeout represents a healthy dose of digital Darwinism -- the market's acknowledgment that it does not need dozens of online toy sites or craft stores, when just a few will do.
Despite the big jump, by Sunday comparison sites only saw one sixth of the traffic that toy sites did," he said.
(Most sex toy sites don't have an 18+ gate. If a teenager wants to find sex on the internet, Kickstarter is the last place they'd go).
What separates YoYo from other toy sites on the web, explains Marc Lore, CEO of Quidsi, is that the site features an easy way to distill toy choice by age, type of toy and more.
