Patent ID: 8234178

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing, by a computerized item search and purchasing component, purchasing criteria for an item to be purchased; receiving, by the computerized item search and purchasing component, an order that comprises the item to be purchased, the order being sent from a computerized order generation system; searching, by the computerized item search and purchasing component, electronic marketplaces for availability of the item to be purchased; and in an electronic marketplace of the electronic marketplaces, identifying, by the computerized item search and purchasing component, an available item, of the item to be purchased, that meets the established purchasing criteria, wherein the searching is carried out, by the computerized item search and purchasing component, using an identifier for the item to be purchased, and wherein the purchasing criteria comprises: a blacklist keyword list which is utilized to exclude any offer for sale for the item to be purchased in the electronic marketplaces that has a term that corresponds to a term in the blacklist keyword list, and a feedback threshold which is utilized to exclude any offer for sale for the item to be purchased in the electronic marketplaces that has a number of customer feedback entries that is larger than the feedback threshold.