System, Method, and Apparatus for Visually Facilitating Customer Orders

A system for visually facilitating customer orders comprising:

• a mobile device operative to:
• display one or more images of individual items respectively purchasable from any of a plurality of independently operating providers, the one or more images of the individual items presented as a photographic listing;
• responsive to receiving a selection of one of the images:
• a) display one or more specifications characterizing the item depicted in the selected image;
• b) display any customer-submitted images, received from at least one other mobile device, corresponding to the item depicted in the selected image;
• and
• c) display any customer-submitted reviews, received from at least one other mobile device, corresponding to the item depicted in the selected image;
• and
• receive instructions to facilitate a prospective customer to means for attaining any of the individual items.

A non-transitory, tangible computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by a computer processor, enable performance of the method comprising:

• displaying, at a first mobile device, one or more images of individual items respectively purchasable from any of a plurality of independently operating providers, the one or more images of the individual items presented as a photographic listing;
• receiving, at an at least one other mobile device, one or more customer-submitted images respectively corresponding to at least some of the one or more images;
• receiving, at an at least one other mobile device, one or more customer-submitted reviews respectively corresponding to at least some of the one or more images;
• responsive to receiving, at the first mobile device, a selection of one of the one or more images:
• a) displaying, at the first mobile device, one or more specifications characterizing the item depicted in the selected image;
• b) displaying, at the first mobile device, any customer-submitted images, respectively corresponding to the item depicted in the selected image;
• and
• c) displaying, at the first mobile device, any customer-submitted reviews respectively corresponding to the item depicted in the selected image;
• and
• receiving instructions, at the first mobile device, to facilitate purchasing any of the individual items on behalf of the prospective customer.