PRICE ALTERATION THROUGH BUYER AFFECTED AGGREGATION OF PURCHASERS

• US 20100125525A1
• Filed: 11/18/2008
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anil B. Inamdar
• Original Assignee: Anil B. Inamdar
• Inventors: Inamdar, Anil B.
• Application Number:
  US12/272,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20100125525A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/80
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/188 Electronic negotiation

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system of price alteration through buyer affected aggregation of purchasers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of buyer altered aggregation of purchasers includes generating an offer of at least two of an item (e.g., a good, a real property, an intangible property, and/or a service) for sale at a conditionally determined price to a potential buyer, acquiring an additional potential buyer. The method includes aggregating a set of potential buyers to affect the conditionally determined price. In addition, the method includes selling at least two of the item at the conditionally determined price to the set of potential buyers at a predetermined time.

Claims

1. A buyer altered aggregation of purchasers method, comprising:

generating an offer of at least two of an item for sale at a conditionally determined price to a potential buyer;

acquiring an additional potential buyer;

aggregating a set of potential buyers to affect the conditionally determined price, wherein a processor and a nonvolatile memory are used to aggregate the set of potential buyers; and

selling the at least two of the item at the conditionally determined price to the set of potential buyers at a predetermined time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the item is at least one of a good, a real property, an intangible property, and a service.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the conditionally determined price is a predetermined set of at least two tiers, wherein each tier is comprised of a range of a quantity of the item purchased, and wherein each tier is associated with a price of the item.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the price of the item of the tier is less than the price of the item in an additional tier, wherein an upper threshold quantity of a purchased item of the tier is greater than an additional upper threshold quantity of the additional tier.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein aggregating the set of potential buyers commits each buyer to purchase at least one item at the conditionally determined price.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the conditionally determined price is reduced by a preselected amount with each buyer added to the set of potential buyers.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the preselected amount is the same for each reduction of the conditionally determined price.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein aggregating a set of potential buyers commits each buyer to purchase at least one item at the conditionally determined price.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the conditionally determined price is selected and associated with a threshold quantity of the purchased item, and wherein the sale of the item to the aggregated set of potential buyers occurs when the threshold quantity of the purchased item is exceeded.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the aggregated set of potential buyers is not committed to purchase the item until the threshold quantity of the purchased item is exceeded.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the offer is communicated to the other potential buyer using at least one of an email, a fax, a text message, an instant message, a phone call, a voice message, an image, and a photo.

12. The method of claim 2, further comprising storing a data comprised of at least one of a transaction record and a potential buyer information.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising identifying a supplemental potential buyer based on at least one of a purchase history and a potential buyer characteristic, and wherein a machine is caused to perform the identification by a processor executing a set of instructions stored in a machine readable medium of a physical memory.

14. A buyer altered aggregation of purchasers system, comprising:

an offer module to generate an offer of at least two of an item for sale at a conditionally determined price to a potential buyer;

an acquisition module to acquire an additional potential buyer;

an aggregation module to aggregate a set of potential buyers to affect the conditionally determined price, wherein the set of potential buyers is comprised of the potential buyer and the additional potential buyer, wherein a processor and a nonvolatile memory are used to aggregate the set of potential buyers; and

a sale module to sell the at least two of the item at the conditionally determined price to the set of potential buyers at a predetermined time.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the item is at least one of a good, a real property, an intangible property, and a service.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the conditionally determined price is a predetermined set of at least two tiers, wherein each tier is comprised of a range of a quantity of the item purchased, and wherein each tier is associated with a price of the item.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the price of the item of the tier is less than the price of the item in an additional tier, wherein an upper threshold quantity of a purchased item of the tier is greater than an additional upper threshold quantity of the additional tier.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein aggregating a set of potential buyers commits each buyer to purchase at least one item at the conditionally determined price.

19. The method, comprising:

forming an offer module of a buyer aggregation system to generate an offer of at least two of an item for sale at a conditionally determined price to a potential buyer;

creating an acquisition module to acquire an additional potential buyer;

creating an aggregation module to aggregate a set of potential buyers to affect the conditionally determined price, wherein the set of potential buyers is comprised of the potential buyer and the additional potential buyer, wherein a processor and a nonvolatile memory are used to aggregate the set of potential buyers;

forming a sale module to sell the at least two of the item at the conditionally determined price to the set of potential buyers at a predetermined time.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the item is at least one of a good, a real property, an intangible property, and a service.