Patent ID: 8249942

Claim:
A method for discounting goods or services, the method comprising: generating a plurality of electronic forums that are displayed at end-user computing devices, each of the electronic forums associated with a good or service offered for sale, and wherein purchase of the good or service requires at least one condition being met that differs from the ability to view the good or service; executing instructions stored in memory to determine a quantity of orders for a good or service in one of the electronic forums that have been received from the end-user computing devices, the orders associated with a discount price contingent upon a predetermined quantity of orders for the good or service; executing instructions stored in memory to apply the discount price for the good or service based on the quantity of orders received from the end-user computing devices, the discount corresponding to a predetermined pricing arrangement; processing a financial transaction to fulfill the orders for the good or service after application of the discount price; and adjusting a price charged to a user as a part of the financial transaction based upon a characteristic of a user profile associated with the user, wherein the price charged to the user is less than the discount price and not extended to all users that have placed an order for the good or service.