Patent ID: 7146334

Claim:
A method for selling a commodity, the method comprising: analyzing with at least one computing device a plurality of offers for a plurality of commodities that were offered in an auction by evaluating each offer against a determined criteria to identify one or more of the commodities that satisfy the determined criteria, further comprising: determining an average offer for each of the plurality of commodities from the offers for each of the plurality of commodities; and dividing each average offer for each of the plurality of commodities by a total number of items in each of the plurality of commodities and generating a quotient that is designated as an analyzed value for each of the plurality of commodities; selecting with the at least one computing device at least one of the plurality of commodities that was identified as satisfying the determined criteria by comparing each analyzed value for each of the plurality of identified commodities to specify a latent demand for the at least one selected commodity; and offering to sell the at least one selected commodity for a price based on the average offer for the commodity.