Motor vehicle sales system

An online motor vehicle sales system including at least one computational device configured to:

• Receive a motor vehicle sale offer from a seller, the motor vehicle sale offer including information received from two or more external electronic databases in electronic communication with the online motor vehicle sales system;
• maintain an electronic database of one or more buyers;
• send the motor vehicle sale offer to at least one of the one or more buyers;
• receive a purchase offer from at least one of the buyers to whom the motor vehicle sale offer was sent;
• accept a preferred purchase offer;
• and
• send a notification regarding the acceptance of the preferred purchase offer to the buyer who made the preferred purchase offer.

An online motor vehicle sales method including at least one server, the method including the steps of:

• a. generating, with an online motor vehicle sales system, a motor vehicle sale offer from a seller, the motor vehicle sale offer being generated by:
• i. entering two or more pieces of information relating to a motor vehicle into the online motor vehicle sales system;
• ii. sending, with the online motor vehicle sales system, one of the one or more pieces of information to a first external electronic database;
• iii. receiving, from the first external electronic database with the online motor vehicle sales system, one or more further pieces of information relating to the motor vehicle;
• iv. sending, with the online motor vehicle sales system, the one or more further pieces of information to a second external electronic database;
• v. receiving, from the second external electronic database with the online motor vehicle sales system, one or more additional pieces of information relating to the motor vehicle;
• vi. checking, using the online motor vehicle sales system, that the one or more further pieces of information and the one or more additional pieces of information relate to the same motor vehicle as the two or more pieces of information;
• vii. populating, with the online motor vehicle sales system, the sale offer with the two or more pieces of information, the one or more further pieces of information and the one or more additional pieces of information;
• b. maintaining an electronic database of one or more buyers in association with the online motor vehicle sales system;
• c. sending, with the online motor vehicle sales system, the motor vehicle sale offer to at least one of the one or more buyers:
• d. receiving, with the online motor vehicle sale system, a purchase offer from at least one of the buyers to whom the motor vehicle sale offer was sent;
• e. accepting, with the online motor vehicle sales system, a preferred purchase offer;
• and
• f. sending, with the online motor vehicle sales system, a notification regarding the acceptance of the preferred purchase offer to the buyer who made the preferred purchase offer.