Reverse selling marketplace

A method of matching sellers with buyers comprising the steps of:

• registering at least two users where at least one user is a buyer and at least one user is a seller;
• requiring each of the at least two users to create a profile;
• searching a buying interest in a profile of the buyer based on an inventory specified in a profile of the seller;
• matching the seller with the at least one buyer by correlating the inventory from the profile of the seller with the buying interests from the profile of the buyer;
• and
• alerting the seller of a buying interest in a profile of the buyer that correlates to at least one item in the inventory from the profile of the seller.

A method of matching sellers with buyers comprising the steps of:

• registering at least two users where at least one user is a buyer and at least one user is a seller;
• requiring each of the at least two users to create a profile;
• searching a buying interest in the profile of the buyer based on an inventory specified in a profile of the seller;
• matching the seller with the at least one buyer by correlating the inventory from the profile of the seller with the buying interests from the profile of the buyer;
• alerting the seller of a buying interest in a profile of the buyer that correlates to at least one item in the inventory from the profile of the seller;
• sending an offer to the buyer with buying interests that conform with the inventory from the profile of the seller;
• responding to the offer comprises selecting a response from at least one of accepting the offer, declining the offer, requesting additional information about the offer, submitting a counteroffer, and optionally including comments with at least one response, wherein the offer is verified as being current before submitting the response;
• keeping the identify of at least one buyer from the at least one seller;
• and
• keeping the identity of at least on seller from at least one buyer.

A method of matching sellers with buyers comprising the steps of:

• registering at least two users where at least one user is a buyer and at least one user is a seller;
• requiring each of the at least two users to create a profile;
• searching a buying interest in the profile of the buyer based on an inventory specified in a profile of the seller;
• requiring the buying interest to specify the date by which the purchase will be completed;
• matching the inventory of the at least one seller to the buying interests of the buyer;
• sending a notification to the buyer notifying said buyer that the at least one seller has at least one item matching said buying interest;
• requiring the buyer to choose at least one seller to participate in the reverse bidding marketplace;
• requiring the at least one seller to submit an offer;
• allowing the at least one seller to view the offers made by other sellers;
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• requiring the buyer to accept the item offered at the lowest price.