Patent ID: 7146330

Claim:
A method for using a computer to facilitate a sales transaction for purchasing a product/service by a group of buyers from a seller of a plurality of sellers, comprising: receiving into the computer requests to purchase the product/service by buyers of the group; forming a collective request for purchase of the product/service based upon the received buyer requests to purchase the product/service; sending the collective request to a plurality of sellers; receiving by an agent entity a suggested price quotation for the product/service from the a plurality of the sellers; automatically providing by the agent entity each received suggested price quotation to at least a plurality of the sellers for review, wherein the agent entity is an agent of the group of buyers; receiving by the agent entity another suggested price quotation for the product/service from at least one of the plurality of sellers; receiving purchase authorization to complete a sale from at least one buyer in the group to buy the product/service from any seller that has provided a suggested price quotation for the product/service.