HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO All! Ruby Lane and Notes from the Lane would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers, contributors, shoppers, and shop owners, the happiest of holidays! Have a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year and may all your holidays be merry and bright!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 --San Francisco-- As retailers impatiently wait to see how the economy will affect their holiday sales, savvy online retail mall Rubylane.com, who began to implement several proactive strategies in early 2008, is watching the rewards of their efforts materialize.

Cyber Monday (December 1, 2008) recorded the highest traffic day in the 10-year history of Ruby Lane. Sunday, November 30th saw the second highest online traffic for the site.

According to revised online retail statistics, online sales will peak somewhere between December 12-22nd.

To help with holiday sales and to bring our 10-year anniversary celebration to a successful close, we are pleased to offer Ruby Lane shops a free listing day in December.

Free Listing Day is December 9, 2008.

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Beginning at 12:01am PST on Tuesday, December 9th, add as many items to your shop as you would like. That’s right, listing is free on December 9th up until 11:59pm PST.

We are pleased to announce that recently Ruby Lane added its 2,000th shop to our community. This is a timely milestone as we celebrate our 10th year in business. We want to take this opportunity to thank all shop owners for choosing Ruby Lane as your online venue. As always, we will continue to strive to further improve the buying and selling experience as the online marketplace evolves.

Ruby Lane is pleased to announce a new optional feature that allows shops to receive notification on their cell phone when they have a purchase order, offer or if a customer has asked you a question. This allows shops to stay in touch with their customers even when they’re on the go. Shops can choose if they would like to receive all forms of customer contact or just purchase orders.

In celebration of Ruby Lane's 10-year anniversary Ruby Lane is offering 10-Cent Tuesday, where the Listing Fee is only 10 cents instead of the usual 30 cents. The promotion begins today at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time tonight. For all items that shops add during this period, they will only be charged a 10 cent listing fee (5 cents for Charter Shops).Your Ruby Lane account must have a positive balance of at least $1.00 to participate.

In celebration of Ruby Lane’s 10-year anniversary we are offering another 10-Cent Tuesday to our shops, where the Listing Fee is only 10 cents instead of the usual 30 cents. The promotion begins this Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. For all items added to your shop during this period, you will only be charged a 10 cent listing fee (5 cents for Charter Shops).Your Ruby Lane account must have a positive balance of at least $1.00 to participate.

We are pleased to announce that along with the Lanes you currently know, Ruby Lane has just expanded some of the larger categories of items on the site to become their own Lanes! Now you can shop more of your favorite categories while remaining in the same Lane, ensuring a more targeted, effective and thus successful item Search.

I’m celebrating the end of my first year as a shop owner on Ruby Lane. Has it met my expectations? Let me count the ways!

Ruby Lane is celebrating its 10th year in 2008! As part of the celebration, we will have Free Listing Days for all Ruby Lane Shops on Thursday, June 5th, beginning beginning at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.