Here's a fun asssignment for any eager research professional. Find out
what exactly people buy online the most. Such as:
women's clothing
computers
CDs 
Christmas stuff
etc

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Clarification of Question by nggd-ga on 29 Sep 2003 04:48 PDT

If you would be able to put a top 10 or top 20 list of things as well
that would be extremely helpful.

Dear nggd-ga,

Good day!

Indeed, this is a really interesting & fun assignment. However, I
expect the same sentiments from you while evaluating my answer :)
Seriously speaking, there are a lot of statistics out there over what
people buy online the most. There are a lot of seasonal, demographic,
geographic and other such variations in the compiled results.

The UCLA Annual Report - "Surveying the Digital Future"  - published
in February 2003 is one of the most respected and authoritative
sources of data pertaining to the USA. The answers to a question,
"What do you buy online", depended on the years of experience the
users have had with the Internet. Two user categories have been
defined by the UCLA Center for Communication Policy:
A. Very experienced Internet users - 6 or more years of Internet
experience
B. New Internet users < 1 year of Internet expereince

The answers to the above qquestion are listed in the following "Top
20" table:
Product/Service          New	Very Experienced
Books                   11.8    36.8
CDs	                25.2    17.0
Computers/Peripherals    6.2    11.9
Softweare/Games	         1.6    14.6
Clothes	                48.2    41.8
Flowers	                 6.6     6.4
Jewelry/Watches	        16.5     3.0
Stocks/Bonds             0.0     1.8
Electronics	         4.3    16.2
Food/Cosmetics	         5.6     9.1
Drugs	                 0.0     2.9
Furniture	         8.7     4.3
Travel	                 3.4    16.8
Sporting goods           8.7    10.1
Hobby Items              8.3     4.9
Gifts                    0.0    11.6
DVDs/Videos              0.0     7.7
Children's goods         2.8     8.4
Collector's items        8.3     3.5
Automobiles              6.2     1.7

Please note that the responses add upto more than 100% bacause
multiple responses were allowed.


Additional Links:
The entire UCLA Internet Report can be downloaded from the following
site
http://www.ccp.ucla.edu

A large number of statistics are available on the CyberAtlas website
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/stats_toolbox/article


I hope this satisfies your inquisitiveness regarding this topic :)

Thanks & Regards,
reeteshv-ga