Method and apparatus for promoting resale of foods
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Abstract
A method for promoting resale of goods. The method includes solicitation of agreement to offer a good for resale from a buyer of the good near the time of the sale, near the time of confirmation of a desire to purchase a good and/or subsequent to the time of the sale. The buyer may agree to offer the good for resale at a specified future time or upon occurrence of a trigger event. Alternatively, the buyer may agree to be solicited at a future time. Additionally, a relisting agent may solicit the buyer subsequent to the time of sale upon occurrence of a trigger event. A seller, a marketeer, etc. may act as the relisting agent. In electronic commerce applications, a software-implemented relisting controller is used to solicit agreement from buyers to offer the good for resale. An apparatus for performing a computer-implemented version of the inventive method is provided.
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68 Claims
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35. A computer-implemented method for promoting resale of a seller'"'"'s good, the method comprising a computerized marketeer party communicating via a computerized communications interface to:
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confirm a buyer'"'"'s desire to purchase the good;
solicit the buyer to agree to offer the good for resale;
present to the buyer an incentive for agreeing to offer the good for resale;
receive the buyer'"'"'s agreement to offer the good for resale;
facilitate sale of the good from the seller to the buyer to complete a sale transaction; and
present the good for resale, the good being offered for resale by the buyer;
wherein the marketeer party acts as an intermediary between the buyer and a seller. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A method for promoting resale of a seller'"'"'s good, the method comprising a computerized marketeer party:
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facilitating sale of the good from the seller to a buyer to cause the buyer to take physical possession of the good;
querying the buyer, at a future time after the buyer has taken physical possession of the good, to solicit the buyer'"'"'s agreement to offer the good for resale;
receiving the buyer'"'"'s agreement to offer the good for resale; and
adding the good to an inventory of goods for sale, the good being offered for resale by the buyer. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61)
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62. A method for promoting resale of a good, the method comprising a computerized marketeer party:
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facilitating sale of the good from a seller to a buyer to complete a sale transaction;
at a future time after the buyer has taken physical possession of the good, soliciting agreement from the buyer to offer the good for resale, the future time being a time after elapse of a period of time selected by the buyer;
receiving the buyer'"'"'s agreement to offer the good for resale; and
presenting the good for resale, the good being offered for resale by the buyer. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68)
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