PayPal's Biggest Mobile Purchases for 2012
By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: December 17, 2012
Folks use their mobile phones for just about everything these days -- talking, texting, maps, photos, and even shopping.
But some smart-phone shoppers are taking their mobile buying power to the extreme! PayPal just released its list of the five biggest mobile phone payments the company processed this year.
Number one?
A bulldozer -- purchased for 48-thousand dollars!
Someone else used their phone to drop 46-thousand bucks on a white gold necklace with 125 diamonds.Another phone shopper spent about the same amount on a collection of rare coins. At number four, more jewelry -- a 40-thousand-dollar men's diamond chain necklace. Rounding out the top five was a 40-thousand-dollar purchase of a painting. That's the high end of a growing trend -- shopping with your phone.
Consumer tracker I-B-M Digital Analytic's Benchmark says about 13 percent of shoppers made their Cyber Monday purchases on a phone or tablet this year.
But some smart-phone shoppers are taking their mobile buying power to the extreme! PayPal just released its list of the five biggest mobile phone payments the company processed this year.
Number one?
A bulldozer -- purchased for 48-thousand dollars!
Someone else used their phone to drop 46-thousand bucks on a white gold necklace with 125 diamonds.Another phone shopper spent about the same amount on a collection of rare coins. At number four, more jewelry -- a 40-thousand-dollar men's diamond chain necklace. Rounding out the top five was a 40-thousand-dollar purchase of a painting. That's the high end of a growing trend -- shopping with your phone.
Consumer tracker I-B-M Digital Analytic's Benchmark says about 13 percent of shoppers made their Cyber Monday purchases on a phone or tablet this year.
