Patent ID: 8626131

Claim:
A system for trading items electronically, the system comprising at least one computing device having a processor and a transceiver, and at least one tangible data storage medium having software stored thereon that when executed by the at least one computing device, directs the at least one computing device to: transmit order wanted information for an item from a computer station of a first user to computer stations of a plurality of other users; receive orders from the computer stations of the other users, wherein each order from at least one of the other users is not transmitted to another of the other users; transmit to the computer station of the first user a list of the orders received from the computer stations of the other users, the first user able to accept one of the orders; and in response to the first user accepting one of the orders, execute a transaction for an exchange of the item with at least one of the other users that transmitted the accepted order.