Christmas wish list

Lottay, an online gift-giving company, reports with its Holiday wish list survey that 38% of people want something other than products, but the top product wishes are Nintendo Wii, Wii games and accessories.

The top experiential wishes, according to the Lottay survey, are travel and cash for shopping.

Lottay surveyed a random sample of 1,000 wishes created for the 2009 holiday season.

“In addition to revealing the most wished-for products and gifts, the survey also reveals some of the oddest wishes that people have made on Lottay, including a cow, a monkey, a hookah and Satan,” according to the Lottay statement.

SURVEY FINDINGS
• The survey finds that 38% of people are wishing for an experience or something other than a product while 62% are only wishing for products. Overall, 60% of Lottay users are women, each of whom has an average of 2.5 wishes.

• Nintendo Wii, Wii games and accessories are the top product wishes. The Wii and Wii-related gear are wished for twice as much as Sony and Xbox 360 combined.

• Runner-up product wishes are iPods, followed by cameras and boots. Ugg’s are the most popular shoe that is specifically named in wishes.

• The top experience wishes are travel to France, Disneyland and Las Vegas. The runner-up experience wishes are cash for use towards shopping, the holidays or hobbies. Massages came in third, and 2.5% of wishers want puppies.

• The top wishes from women are cash as a gift, Nintendo Wii, travel and vacations, massage, iPod, boots.

• The top wishes from men are travel, cash as a gift, love and sky diving (tied), iPod, Nintendo Wii, a car.