System and method for extension of group buying throughout the internet

A method for designating among a plurality of group buying offers which offers to display on a website, the method comprising:

• providing a product/service characteristics repository configured to store descriptions of product/service offers from a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners, the descriptions comprising designations from a partner of which of the group buying offers to make available to users of the partner's own website;
• supplying a link to a network buying cooperative website to the partner based on the designations made by the partner through which a user of the partner website can access the cooperative website;
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• selecting, based on the partner site from which a user accesses the cooperative site and any designations made by the partner and stored in the repository which of a plurality of group buying offers to display to the user.

A system for filtering network buying cooperative products/services for selection and display to customers linked to a network buying cooperative site from a partner site, comprising:

• a partner identification data receiver that has been configured to receive partner identification data for the partner site;
• a product-services/category receiver that has been configured to receive product/service identification data and category data for the partner site, wherein the category data pertains to network buying cooperative product/service categories and wherein received product/service identification data and received category data determine a set of network buying cooperative products/services suitable for selection and display to customers linked from the partner site;
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• a terms receiver that has been configured to receive abstract terms from a partner related to the network buying cooperative products/services from the partner site and use the received abstract terms to select a set of network buying cooperative products/services suitable for selection and display to the customers.

A system for selecting from a plurality of products/services which products/services to display on a website, the system comprising:

• a product/service characteristics repository configured to store descriptions of products/services from a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners, the descriptions comprising designations from the partner of which products/services to make available to users of a partner's own website;
• a product/service display site configured to display products/services to a user of a partner site who accesses the product/service display from the partner website, wherein the offers that are displayed to the user depend on the partner website from which the cooperative website is accessed;
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• a rules engine configured to access the product/service characteristics repository and select, based on the partner site from which a user accesses the product/service display and any designations made by the partner and stored in the repository, which of a plurality of products/services to display to the user.

A method of selecting from a plurality of products/services which products/services to display on a website, the method comprising:

• providing a product/service characteristics repository configured to store descriptions of products/services from a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners, the descriptions comprising designations from a partner of which products/services offers to make available to users of the partner's own website;
• supplying a link to a product/service display site to the partner based on the designations made by the partner through which a user of the partner website can access the product/service display site;
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• selecting, based on the partner site from which a user accesses the cooperative site and any designations made by the partner and stored in the repository which of a plurality of products/services to display to the user.

A method for displaying products/services to a customer of a plurality of customers linked to a display site from a partner site of a plurality of partner sites, comprising:

• receiving a link from the customer of the plurality of customers at the partner site of the plurality of partner sites;
• examining a data repository to determine an exclusive product/services set previously selected for customer viewing at the partner site using partner site exclusivity data provided by the partner;
• identifying products/services in the exclusive product/services set that are presently offered for sale and satisfying the partner site exclusivity data;
• and selecting one product/service of the identified product/services for display to the customer.

A system for designating among a plurality of group buying offers which offers to display on a website, the system comprising:

• a product/service characteristics repository configured to store descriptions of product/service offers from a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners, the descriptions comprising designations made by a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners of which of the group buying offers to make available to users of a partner's own website, wherein the plurality of group buying offers includes at least one group buying offer that is exclusively available to users associated with a single specific partner;
• a network buying cooperative website configured to display group buying offers to a user of a partner site who accesses the cooperative site from the partner website, wherein the offers that are displayed to the user depend on the partner website from which the cooperative website is accessed;
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• a rules engine configured to access the product/service characteristics repository and select, based on the partner site from which a user accesses the cooperative website and any designations made by the partner and stored in the repository, which of a plurality of group buying offers to display to the user, wherein at least one group buying offer is available for display exclusively to users accessing the cooperative site from the partner's site.

A method of designating among a plurality of group buying offers which offers to display on a website, the method comprising:

• providing a product/service characteristics repository configured to store descriptions of product/service offers from a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners, the descriptions comprising designations from a partner of which of the group buying offers to make available to users of the partner's own website, wherein the plurality of group buying offers includes at least one group buying offer that is exclusively available to users of the partner's own website;
• supplying a link to a network buying cooperative website to the partner based on the designations made by the partner through which a user of the partner website can access the cooperative website;
• selecting, based on the partner site from which a user accesses the cooperative site and any designations made by the partner and stored in the repository which of a plurality of group buying offers to display to the user;
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• displaying the at least one of a plurality of group buying offers designated for display only to users linking to the network buying cooperative's website from the partner site.

A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps of selecting from a plurality of group buying offers which offers to display on a website, the medium comprising:

• providing a product/service characteristics repository configured to store descriptions of product/service offers from a plurality of different and non-affiliated partners, the description's comprising designations from a partner of which of the group buying offers to make available to users of the partner's own website;
• supplying a link to a network buying cooperative website to the partner based on the designations made by the partner through which a user of the partner website can access the cooperative website;
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• selecting, based on the partner site from which a user accesses the cooperative site and any designations made by the partner and stored in the repository which of a plurality of group buying offers to display to the user.

A system for adding product/service offers to a network buying cooperative's site configured to select products/services for customers visiting a partner site, comprising:

• a seller identification data receiver that has been configured to receive seller identification data for the seller of the offered product/services;
• a sale-product/service receiver that has been configured to receive product/services identification data for the offered product/services;
• a maximum quantity receiver that has been configured to receive maximum sale quantity data for the offered product/services;
• an initial price receiver that has been configured to receive an initial price for the offered product/services;
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• a terms receiver that has been configured to receive abstract terms from the partner related to the offered product/services, wherein the abstract terms are used by the cooperative site to select product/services offers to display to a customer visiting the partner site.