Patent ID: 7958012

Claim:
A method of facilitating a user to offer for sale an article at one or more different online listing platforms comprising the steps of: receiving through an online interface on a computer from the user a description of the article and a plurality of user preferences pertaining to selling the article; recommending through the online interface on a computer, based upon the plurality of different user preferences and the article, the one or more different online listing platforms, the step of recommending including the step of providing a recommended sale price of the article for that online listing platform based upon historical data relating to the article, normalization of the historical data for seasonality and timing and a probability regression analysis to account for user risk tolerance; receiving through the online interface on a computer from the user a selection of which one or more recommended online listing platforms to use to attempt to sell the article and a sale price of the article for each; transforming the information about the article, for each selected online listing platform, into a listing to offer the article for sale, each listing including a description of the article, the sale price, and at least one mechanism to track the sale process each of the online listing platforms, each listing being formatted in a manner that conforms to the requirements of that particular online listing platform; and tracking each listing through the online interface on a computer.