Patent ID: 8606649

Claim:
A method of compiling, organizing and comparing purchase information by a server-based system managing a database accessible over the Internet, said method comprising: receiving at the server for each buyer having made a purchase of one or more items or services from a seller, the purchase information including actual prices paid for the one or more items or services by said each buyer, wherein the server accepts: said each buyer's purchase receipt documents or images of purchase receipts received by the server over the Internet directly from said each buyer's mobile computing device or non-mobile computing device; and said each buyer's purchase information including the actual prices paid by said each buyer for the items or services directly from said seller to the server over the Internet; storing the purchase information in the database and compiling the purchase information to facilitate comparisons; and displaying by the server to users in an anonymous or alternatively open fashion on the Internet certain portions of the purchase information in part or in the aggregate, the purchase information comprising: the actual prices paid for the one or more items; and a count of items purchased.