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The present invention provides a method and system that allows sellers to communicate conditional offers to potential buyers. The conditions include prices that depend on the aggregate amount of goods or services that buyers collectively agree to purchase by a given time and date. The invention faci

The present invention provides a method and system that allows sellers to communicate conditional offers to potential buyers. The conditions include prices that depend on the aggregate amount of goods or services that buyers collectively agree to purchase by a given time and date. The invention facilitates "demand aggregation", that is, aggregating demand by potential buyers (who may or may not know each other), for products offered by sellers. This invention allows sellers conveniently to offer "Demand-Based Pricing", that is, prices which go down as the volume of units sold in any given offer goes up. A seller can therefor offer volume discounts to buyers acting as a group, even when the buyers may not have any formal relationship with one another.

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[ I claim:] [1.]1. A system for aggregating demand for the purchase of at least one product by a plurality of individual buyers comprising:a controller;seller terminals which communicate with said controller whereby sellers can enter and transmit, prior to the beginning of a specified and limited ti

[ I claim:] [1.]1. A system for aggregating demand for the purchase of at least one product by a plurality of individual buyers comprising:a controller;seller terminals which communicate with said controller whereby sellers can enter and transmit, prior to the beginning of a specified and limited time period, to said controller, a conditional sales offer for said at least one product, said conditional sales offer specifying prices which are dependent upon the total number of said at least one product associated with said conditional sales offer purchased in the specified and limited time period;web pages which display said conditional sales offer;a plurality of individual buyer terminals which communicate with said controller whereby said plurality of individual buyers can indicate to said controller an acceptance of said conditional sales offer for the at least one product, and;said controller calculating the price from among the specified prices for said at least one product dependent upon said conditional sales offer and an aggregate amount of said at least one product that said plurality of individual buyers have collectively indicated a willingness to purchase during said specified and limited time period.