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1. A method of doing an e-commerce business which enables customers to purchase products, such as fabrics, directly from their suppliers, such as their manufacturers, through an internet web site containing information about the products, comprising:
- establishing a database with data entries for each of the products, consigned by its supplier to the business;
the database comprising data for at least one of the price, composition, color, design and supply of each product; and
data of the database being accessible to the customers, suppliers and the business via the web site.
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Abstract
The present invention provides of method of conducting an e-commerce business which enables customers to purchase products directly from suppliers via an internet web site. The Internet web site contains a database of information about the products including: price, composition, color, design and the supply of each product. Further, the web site includes pricing information related to the products including the manufacturer'"'"'s price, the supplier'"'"'s price (if different than the manufacturer), and the customer'"'"'s price. Discounts, promotions and other price related information may also be available via the web site.
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1. A method of doing an e-commerce business which enables customers to purchase products, such as fabrics, directly from their suppliers, such as their manufacturers, through an internet web site containing information about the products, comprising:
establishing a database with data entries for each of the products, consigned by its supplier to the business;
the database comprising data for at least one of the price, composition, color, design and supply of each product; and
data of the database being accessible to the customers, suppliers and the business via the web site.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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15. A method of doing an e-commerce business which enables customers to purchase products, such as fabrics, directly from their suppliers, such as their manufacturers, through an internet web site containing information about the products, comprising:
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establishing a database with data entries for each of the products, consigned by its supplier to the business; and
establishing a customers site on the web site that is accessible to the customers and a suppliers site on the web site that is accessible to the suppliers;
wherein data of the database that are accessible to the customers on the customers site are different from data of the database that are accessible to the suppliers on the suppliers site.
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