anna nicole smith (Source: LYCOS)While eCommerce trends are always a hard thing to predict, death and controversy always seem to add fuel to consumers spending fire. TMZ explained it today best, “Gawkers Can’t Get Enough of Anna.”

In the wake of her death, DVD sales for Anna Nicole’s reality show are skyrocketing. Since Thursday, its ranking on Amazon.com has soared an amazing 180,000 percent, moving from number 27,014 to 15.

Who knows what the next big surge will be — Tawdry tales of our President and Vice-President fueled by impreachment hearings perhaps?