Patent ID: 7801776

Claim:
A method of conducting sales transactions of women's outer garments using a party plan method of marketing comprising: requiring the purchase, at least twice annually, of a sample line of women's outer garments at a cost substantially equal to or below a cost of production of said sample line of women's outer garments, said sample line of women's outer garments representative of styles and sizes of women's outer garments available for sale during a selling season; showing said sample line of women's outer garments at a show held in a home; providing, during said show, a running available inventory of women's outer garments by using a computer in data flow communication via a network with a database associated with an inventory of women's outer garments; receiving order forms from a plurality of customers at said show, said customers comprising hostesses and guests, the order forms having data including: customer name; customer address; customer order, the customer order including one or more women's outer garments; entering said data from the order forms into said database associated with said inventory of women's outer garments via said computer; storing said data from the order forms in said database associated with said inventory of women's outer garments via said computer; processing said data such that said one or more women's outer garments is subtracted from the running available inventory of women's outer garments; assembling the women's outer garments from each of said order forms into individual packages prior to a shipment of said packages to said home; shipping said individual packages to said home; and distributing said women's outer garments from said home to said customers without using postal services, thereby avoiding the incurrence of additional shipping costs.