Well it looks as if it is happening just like predicted. High prices at the pump are changing the Christmas Gift buying behaviors of shoppers. Many gift givers are gratefully embraces graphics of gadgets online. They want to see the item, learn all about it and then buy it, without putting a minimum of $36.00 in their compact car to go shopping for the day or a $100.00 in their SUV to cruise around town.

This is a beautiful big bonus, but not for the bigger box retailers, as the benefit goes to those buy-online sites. It is predicted that the average families fuel and gasoline bill is up by more than $200.00 per month and that means less discretionary income to spend on the 2005 Christmas Season, in fact it seems as if the new catch term this year is