Patent ID: 7149706

Claim:
A method of distributing a voucher to a prospective customer over the Internet which is redeemable for a producer's purchase incentive, said purchase incentive including at least one of: a purchase price discount, a free upgrade or a free accessory, on a purchase price of a manufactured product at a specific reseller; the method comprising: providing at least one screen display to the prospective customer through the Internet to allow the prospective customer to select a producer; receiving the selection of a producer from the prospective customer; providing at least one screen display to the prospective customer through the Internet to allow the prospective customer to select only one product of said producer; receiving the selection of the only one product of the one producer from the prospective customer through the Internet at the website: after receiving the selection of only one product from said prospective customer and before displaying any amount of any purchase incentive to the prospective customer, providing a screen display to the prospective customer which requests the prospective customer to enter personal contact information and a postal address code; receiving at the website from the prospective customer through the Internet said personal contact information and said postal address code corresponding to the selection of the only one product; after the website receiving the selection of the only one product and the personal contact information and the postal address code from the prospective customer, the website selecting only one reseller from a plurality of available resellers based on the selection of the only one product and based on the postal address code being within, or closest to, a pre-defined marketing territory of the reseller; the website then generating a voucher having a time limit for redemption and having a producer's purchase incentive on the purchase of the only one selected product at the only one selected reseller; and communicating the voucher for the only one selected product to at least one of the prospective customer and the selected reseller over the Internet.