METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PUBLISH A SELLER FIXED PRICE OFFER

• US 20070112640A1
• Filed: 12/29/2006
• Published: 05/17/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Grove, Brian, Grove, Steve, Sandler, Andrew, Edson, Zachary
• Application Number:
  US11/618,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20070112640A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0633 Lists, e.g. purchase orders, compilation or processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/08 Auctions

Abstract

An auction method presents an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller'"'"'s offering to a buyer. The seller is provided with a mechanism to adjust and publish a seller fixed-price offer during the auction price-setting process.

Claims

1. A network-based commerce system to facilitate operation of a network-based commerce system, and the network-based commerce system including:

a processor coupled to a memory through a bus; and

an auction price-setting process executed from the memory by the processor to cause the processor to facilitate display of a reserve price of a listing an item in connection with an auction price-setting process to a seller, the seller being one of a plurality of sellers.

2. A network-based commerce system to facilitate a network-based auction price-setting process, the method including:

a processor coupled to a memory through a bus; and

an auction price-setting process executed from the memory by the processor to cause the processor to communicate a plurality of at least one of a reserve price or a fixed-price offer within the context of the auction price-setting process, wherein a specific price is communicated to a specific buyer from a seller.

3. The network-based commerce system of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the reserve price and the fixed-price offer is based on a location of the buyer.

4. The network-based commerce system of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the reserve price and the fixed-price is adjusted based on the seller.

5. The network-based commerce system of claim 2, wherein the auction price-setting process further causes the processor to automatically publish at least one a proxy bid information and a reserve price.

6. A network-based commerce system to facilitate operation of a network-based commerce system, and the method including:

a means for facilitating display of a reserve price of a listing in connection with an auction price-setting process to a seller; and

a storage means, coupled to the means for facilitating, for storing the reserve price.

7. A network-based commerce system including:

a means for communicating a plurality of at least one of a reserve price and a fixed-price offer within the context of the auction price-setting process, wherein a specific price is communicated to a specific buyer from a seller; and

a storage means, coupled to the means for communicating, for storing the reserve price.

8. A machine-readable medium having instructions to cause a machine to perform a method to facilitate operation of a network-based commerce system, and the method including:

facilitating display of a reserve price of a listing in connection with an auction price-setting process to a seller.

9. A machine-readable medium having instructions to cause a machine to perform a method to facilitate a network-based auction price-setting process, the method including:

communicating a plurality of at least one of a reserve price or a fixed-price offer within the context of the auction price-setting process, wherein a specific price is communicated to a specific buyer from a seller.

10. The machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the at least one of the reserve price and the fixed-price offer is based on a location of the buyer.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the at least one of the reserve price and the fixed-price is adjusted based on the seller.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 9, further comprising:

automatically publishing at least one a proxy bid information and a reserve price.

13. A method to facilitate a network-based auction price-setting process, the method including:

communicating a plurality of at least one of a reserve price or a fixed-price offer within the context of the auction price-setting process, wherein a specific price is communicated to a specific buyer from a seller.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one of the reserve price and the fixed-price offer is based on a location of the buyer.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one of the reserve price and the fixed-price is adjusted based on the seller.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

automatically publishing at least one a proxy bid information and a reserve price.