Patent ID: 8117090

Claim:
A method for remarketing privately owned motor vehicles by consumers through a nationwide alliance of professional car care service providers, said method comprising: capturing by the service providers using alliance computer workstations three-dimensional facial images of sellers desiring to sell their privately owned motor vehicles and uploading the three-dimensional facial images to a database managed by a nationwide alliance server; for a given seller, determining a successful registration based upon a negative match of the seller's three-dimensional facial image with existing three-dimensional facial images and issuing to the seller by the participating service provider a system website password and/or other relational identifier; presenting by the registered seller to the participating service provider, the privately owned motor vehicle, a valid driver license, proof of insurance, vehicle identification number and motor vehicle registration document for the privately owned motor vehicle; establishing the registered seller as being in good standing by the system by determining a system threshold has not been breached; confirming a positive match based on the presented documents; recording by the service provider, the vehicle identification number, year, make, model, color, and odometer reading along with the registered seller, name, contact phone number, and contact email address, along with date of entry, in the alliance computer workstation; washing, detailing or otherwise prepping the privately owned motor vehicle by the service provider; taking by the service provider digital photographs of the privately owned motor vehicle, interior and exterior, including the vehicle identification number physically located on said motor vehicle in manufacturer designated areas and uploading by the service provider, the digital photographs and the associated recorded seller information into the service provider's alliance computer workstation; accepting by the service provider payment from the seller for remarketing services rendered; uploading by the service provider, the seller formatted information and accompanying digital photographs into the system's central database by said service provider utilizing the alliance computer workstation, utilizing an assigned, encrypted, service provider identification code; reviewing and verifying by system personnel that the seller formatted information and accompanying digital photographs uploaded by the service provider into the system central database are correctly formatted, with said seller formatted information reflecting said seller name, contact phone number, contact email address, the motor vehicle identification number, year, make, model, color, odometer reading of the motor vehicle, and date of entry into the system; and listing the privately owned motor vehicle for sale on the system website.