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A system for communicating product or service information to a potential purchaser through three or more smartphones, comprising:

• a first smartphone of a first user that
• downloads a first application from a server, wherein the first application allows the first smartphone of the first user to scan a product or item describing a service a product to obtain both a product or service code that provides product or service information of a product or service and an advertisement promotion code provided by a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service that provides a monetary incentive for a first user to communicate information about the product or service,
• generates a first barcode, using the first application, by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service and with a first advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user, wherein the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service, and the first advertiser code are encoded in the first barcode,
• communicates the first barcode to a second smartphone of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service using a network, using the first application on the first smartphone of the first user, where the second smartphone of the second user downloads a second application that registers the second user with a second advertiser code that uniquely identifies the second user, and, using the second application, encodes the first barcode and the second advertiser code into a second barcode and sends the second barcode to a third smartphone of a third user that is a second potential purchaser of the product or service using the network, wherein when the third smartphone of the third user is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the POS terminal
• scans the second barcode on the third smartphone of the third user,
• decodes the second barcode into the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service, the first advertiser code and the second advertiser code, and
• compensates the first user identified by the first advertiser code and compensates the second user identified by the second advertiser code according to the incentive described in the advertisement promotion code, after the third user purchases the product or service.

An advertising system to providing incentives and compensation to a users of three or more smartphones to communicate product or service information to a potential purchaser, the method comprising:

• an advertising system computer server that
• generates a product or service code for identifying a product or service and an advertisement promotion code that provides a provides a monetary incentive for a first user to communicate information about the product or service,
• sends the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code to a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service that places the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code in an RFID or a QR code on the product or an item describing the service,
• sends a first application to a first smartphone of a first user, wherein the first application that is downloaded on the first smartphone registers the first user with a first advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user, wherein the first user uses the first application that is downloaded on the first smartphone of the first user to scan the RFID or a QR code on the product or an item describing the service and wherein the first smartphone
• generates a first barcode, using the first application, by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service and with the first advertiser code, wherein the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service, and the first advertiser code are encoded in the barcode, and
• communicates the first barcode to a second smartphone of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service using a network, using the first application on the first smartphone of the first user, wherein the second smartphone of the second user downloads a second application that registers the second user with a second advertiser code that uniquely identifies the second user, and, using the second application, encodes the first barcode and the second advertiser code into a second barcode and sends the second barcode to a third smartphone of a third user that is a second potential purchase of the product or service using the network, wherein when the third smartphone of the third user is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal and the POS terminal scans the second barcode on the third smartphone of the third user and decodes the second barcode into the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the information from the first smartphone associated with the product or service, the first advertiser code and the second advertiser code, after the third user purchases the product or service,
• receives the product or service code, the advertisement promotion code, the first advertiser code, and the second advertiser code from a point of sale terminal, and
• compensates the first user identified by the first advertiser code and compensates the second user identified by the second advertiser code according to the incentive described in the advertisement promotion code for the third user's purchase of the product or service identified by the product or service code.