Automated listing management
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1. A method of selling items in lots, comprising:
- defining, by one or more servers, machine-readable business rules based on a target recovery rate; and
automatically creating a plurality of different offerings that each offer one or more items in the lots based on the machine-readable business rules, the automatically creating optimizing financial return based on the machine-readable business rules by using different offering parameter values in creating each of the different offerings.
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Abstract
Disclosed is a sales system for lots of items that includes business rule definition logic. The sales system also includes offering creation logic that is operative to dynamically create different offerings for items in the lots. The offering creation logic optimizes return based on one or more of the business rules by using different offering parameter values for the different offerings.
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1. A method of selling items in lots, comprising:
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defining, by one or more servers, machine-readable business rules based on a target recovery rate; and automatically creating a plurality of different offerings that each offer one or more items in the lots based on the machine-readable business rules, the automatically creating optimizing financial return based on the machine-readable business rules by using different offering parameter values in creating each of the different offerings. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system comprising:
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means for defining, by one or more servers, machine-readable business rules based on a target recovery rate; and means for automatically creating a plurality of different offerings that each offer one or more items in the lots based on the machine-readable business rules, the automatically creating optimizing financial return based on the machine-readable business rules by using different offering parameter values in creating each of the different offerings. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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