Method for communicating with buyers who chose a competitor

• US 20050177456A1
• Filed: 02/07/2005
• Published: 08/11/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael T. Rossides
• Original Assignee: Michael T. Rossides
• Inventors: Rossides, Michael T.
• Application Number:
  US11/053,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20050177456A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0212 Chance discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0247 Calculate past, present or future revenues
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0275 Auctions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

An expected value system for paying and qualifying realbuyers (EVSPQ-RB) is an online database system that enables a seller to pay conditional, expected value payments to realbuyer prospects for their attention to a message. In an EVSPQ-RB, users are eligible to win payoffs if they match the realbuyer conditions set forth by a paying seller. A user who has conditionally won a payoff can then claim the payoff. An EVSPQ-RB tracks the users who have accepted a seller'"'"'s payment offer and who have claimed a corresponding payoff. The invention is a method for improving an EVSPQ-RB comprised of the following steps: a. upon a seller'"'"'s request, presenting the seller a list of users who have claimed a payoff from an offer made by the seller via the EVSPQ-RB, b. enabling a seller to specify and view a list of claimants by the product or service bought, or by who the seller bought from, c. enabling the seller to select any of the claimants in the list to be queried, d. enabling the seller to query the selected claimant(s) via email, web form, interactive voice response, and/or phone conversation, e. enabling a seller ask payoff claimants a market research question, f. enabling the seller to receive answers back from the claimants.

Claims

1. a method for improving the operation of a specialized, online computer database system, called an EVSPQ-RB, that enables a seller to pay conditional, expected value payments to realbuyer prospects for their attention to a message, users of which being able to accept EV payment offers;

users who accept these EV payment offers being eligible to win payoffs if they match the realbuyer conditions specified via the system by the paying seller;

said EVSPQ-RB recording the users who have accepted a seller'"'"'s payment offer and who also have claimed a corresponding payoff,

the inventive method for improving said EVSPQ-RB comprised of the following steps;

a. upon a seller'"'"'s request, presenting the seller a list of users who have claimed a payoff from an offer made by said seller via the EVSPQ-RB,

b. enabling said seller to specify and view a list of claimants by the product or service bought, or by who the seller bought from,

c. enabling said seller to select any of the claimants in the list to be queried,

d. enabling said seller to query the selected claimant(s) via email, web form, interactive voice response, and/or phone conversation,

e. enabling said seller ask payoff claimants a market research question,

f. enabling said seller to receive answers back from the claimants.