Address Exchange Systems and Methods

A product distribution method comprising:

• providing a data storage system including a physical address associated with each of a plurality of individuals;
• providing a controller in communication with the database;
• providing a memory coupled to the controller, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the controller, wherein, in response to executing the program instructions, the controller:
• receives, as input from a seller, product characteristics of a product available from the seller to be sold to one or more of the plurality of individuals, the product characteristics including a product category or a product identification and a price or a price range and a date or a date range as well as sharing preferences for additional information related to the one of the plurality of individuals dictating what information related to the one of the plurality of individuals is to be shared by the system and under what conditions that information is to be shared;
• receives, as input from one of the plurality of individuals via a permission setting module, characteristics of a desired product including one of either a product category or product identification and either price or price range and either a date or a date range;
• automatically without human intervention identifies, using the product characteristics of a product available from the seller to be sold to one or more of the plurality of individuals and the characteristics of the desired product, a matching transaction including an identified product and an identified individual;
• and
• in response to identifying a matching transaction, facilitates the delivery of the identified product to the identified individual without revealing the physical address of the one of the plurality of individuals to the seller and any additional information related to the one of the plurality of individuals is only shared with the seller according to the preferences of the one of the plurality of individuals.

A product distribution system comprising:

• a data storage system including a physical address associated with each of a plurality of individuals;
• a controller in communication with the database;
• a memory coupled to the controller, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the controller, wherein, in response to executing the program instructions, the controller:
• receives, as input from one of the plurality of individuals via a permission setting module, characteristics of a desired product including one of either a product category or product identification and either price or price range and either a date or a date range as well as sharing preferences for additional information related to the one of the plurality of individuals dictating what information related to the one of the plurality of individuals is to be shared by the system and under what conditions that information is to be shared;
• receives, as input from a plurality of sellers in a reverse auction format, offers to sell a product to the one of the plurality of individuals that meet the characteristics of the desired product input by the one of the plurality of individuals;
• and
• in response to identifying a winner of the reverse auction inputs from the plurality of sellers, facilitates the delivery of the identified product to the one of the plurality of individuals without revealing the physical address of the one of the plurality of individuals to any of the plurality of sellers and any additional information related to the one of the plurality of individuals is only shared with the seller according to the preferences of the one of the plurality of individuals,
• wherein the winner is identified automatically or by the user.