Methods and systems for a private market: facilitating connections between buyers and sellers or exchangers of products and services while maintaining privacy

A private market system, comprising:

• one or more buying parties, wherein each buying party interacts with the system using a processing unit based device;
• one or more selling parties, wherein each selling party interacts with the system using a processing unit based device;
• a private market unit;
• a network capable of connecting the one or more buying parties and the one or more selling parties to the private market unit;
• and
• the private market unit further comprising an offer repository storing one or more offers of products or services with privacy levels attached to each offer from the one or more selling parties, a request repository storing one or more requests for products or services from the one or more buying parties, an anonymity repository storing a set of anonymity parameters for each of the one or more buying parties and the one or more selling parties, a matching engine that matches a particular offer in the offer repository with one or more requests in the request repository while maintaining the anonymity of the buying parties to generate a matching request and the selling party and a notification engine that notifies a buying party associated with the matching request of the match based on the privacy levels of the offers and the parameters stored in the anonymity repository for the selling party associated with the particular offer and the relationship between the buying party and the selling party.