No rest from the bidders

Thousands of people will spend part of Christmas Day indulging in the UK's favourite leisure activity - shopping, says the Telegraph. Some major retailers such as Currys, Comet, Halfords and Woolworths are beginning their sales on their websites on Christmas Day, and others such as Waterstones and MFI have already begun.

eBay sellers rushing to get their last few parcels out the door today might have been looking forward to a rest between now and next week's CLD, but we've always found listing over Christmas to be very worthwhile. If you can spare half an hour out of your Christmas Day to check emails and ASQs, you'll really wow the buyers. And we've heard that eBay's current series of adverts has "half a dozen" episodes; with only three having appeared so far, a new one to say that eBay's still open over Christmas has to be on the cards.