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Marketplace system in which users generate and browse user-to-user preorder listings via a definitive products catalog

  • US 7,493,274 B2
  • Filed: 05/09/2002
  • Issued: 02/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of facilitating user-to-user sales of products within an electronic marketplace, the method comprising:

  • providing access to a browsable electronic catalog of products that may be purchased and sold by users within the electronic marketplace;

    providing, in association with the electronic catalog, at least (a) a user option to create a marketplace listing to list a unit of a product for sale within the electronic marketplace, and (b) a user option to create a preorder listing to preorder a product from a seller within the electronic marketplace;

    receiving, by a computer system that comprises computer hardware, a submission from a buyer of a preorder listing for a first product, wherein the preorder listing specifies at least a minimum product condition and a maximum purchase price;

    receiving a submission from a seller of a marketplace listing for a unit of the first product, wherein the marketplace listing specifies a condition of the unit of the first product and a selling price;

    determining whether the preorder listing and the marketplace listing match; and

    in response to determining that a match exists between the preorder listing and the marketplace listing, transacting a sale of the unit of the first product between the buyer and the seller.

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