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A description is given of an electronic auction machine, which reacts to changing sales conditions with appropriately adjusted machine prices. For existing automatic vending machines restocking is based upon very vague experience figures and in particular customary fluctuations in sales are not take

A description is given of an electronic auction machine, which reacts to changing sales conditions with appropriately adjusted machine prices. For existing automatic vending machines restocking is based upon very vague experience figures and in particular customary fluctuations in sales are not taken into consideration. With the proposed machine, using a computer current market data are recorded (31) and using these data the current market situation is automatically assessed (32,34). A corresponding updated machine price (33,35) is then displayed.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A method for automatic self-adapting control of sales locally in an automatic vending machine in which a quantity of goods and/or services are offered at individually determined machine prices, comprising:preparing sales forecast data based upon expected sales of said goods and/or

[ We claim:] [1.] A method for automatic self-adapting control of sales locally in an automatic vending machine in which a quantity of goods and/or services are offered at individually determined machine prices, comprising:preparing sales forecast data based upon expected sales of said goods and/or services;recording current sales data of said goods and/or services;adjusting locally and without any intervention from outside said automatic vending machine, at least one machine price in relation to the deviation of current sales data from the forecast sales data; anddisplaying an appropriately adjusted machine price of said goods and/or services.