Patent ID: 8660908

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a bid for a first item being auctioned in a first auction in an online auction system; determining, by a processor, one or more attributes of the first item; determining that a second online auction in the online auction system for a second item has a number of one or more attributes that match a number of the one or more attributes of the first item; determining that the number of the one or more attributes of the second item that match the number of the one or more attributes of the first item exceed a matching threshold; determining that the first auction has completed; after determining that the first auction has completed and after determining that the number of the one or more attributes of the second item match the number of the one or more attributes of the first item exceed the matching threshold, after the first online auction has completed, providing a sale of the second item to a losing bidder of the first online auction prior to completion of the second online auction and without receiving a winning bid for the second online auction from the losing bidder of first online auction, wherein the winning bid for the second online auction is based, at least in part, on a bid made in the first online auction by the losing bidder, wherein the sale of the second item to the losing bidder is without a bid in the second online auction by the losing bidder, wherein the providing the sale of the second item comprises executing the sale of the second item between the seller of the second item and the losing bidder of the first online auction.