Patent ID: 8392271

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an indication from a first user to share information regarding an item listed for sale in a listing on a marketplace maintained by a network-based social platform, the network- based social platform being a platform that allows the first user to communicatively couple with at least a second user with whom the first user has a pre-established relationship that is stored in a user profile of the first user at the network-based social platform; accessing profile information of the at least second user to determine whether the first user is authorized to share the information regarding the item listed for sale on the marketplace maintained by the network-based social platform with the second user; determining whether to forward the information regarding the item offered for sale on the marketplace maintained by the network-based social platform to the at least second user based on the profile information of the second user; based on the determining, sharing, using at least one processor, the information regarding the item listed for sale on the marketplace with the at least second user by retrieving the information from the listing on the marketplace maintained by the network-based social platform and providing the information to the at least second user; monitoring for a change to the information on the marketplace; and based on detecting the change, updating the information shared to the at least second user.