Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Thomas W Plaster

Alan Conrad Rawcliffe

Stefan M Haney

Jason W Murray

B Anthony Joseph

Mark Griffith

Kyle A Freeman

Ankit Patel

Jason William Vogrinec

Sandi S Lin

Mark B Griffith

Alan C Rawcliffe

Method and apparatus for providing inventory fulfillment services to customers who have small quantities of heterogeneous items to sell. A self-service registration interface for generating lists of items to sell via the inventory fulfillment service is provided. The inventory fulfillment service may provide pricing suggestions to the customer. The inventory fulfillment service may determine whether a listed item satisfies one or more listing rules. Shipping information for a list of items may be automatically generated and provided to the customer. The customer may ship the items in one shipment to a specified facility. The customer is the seller of record for all items listed. The customer may not be charged for services until an item is sold. A listing period may be specified for which listed items will be carried. If an item does not sell within the period, option(s) for disposal of the item may be provided.

Method and apparatus for providing fulfillment services

Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating seller to seller transactions. A seller can make products in the seller's inventory available to other sellers. Therefore, other sellers may list a portion of the seller's inventory as their own in-stock inventory. Upon the sale of such a product by another seller, embodiments of the disclosure can facilitate initiating and settling transactions between the sellers and the purchaser as well as fulfillment of the product from the seller's inventory to the purchaser on behalf of another seller.

Seller to seller transactions

Various embodiments of a method and apparatus whereby a single action may control fulfillment services are described. Various embodiments may include an inventory management system associated with a fulfillment services provider. The inventory management system may be configured to implement a fulfillment services management interface configured to generate a user interface providing an indication of item(s) listed for sale by a merchant. In various embodiments, order fulfillment services for such items may not be provided by a fulfillment services provider. Additionally, the user interface may provide a single action user interface element for the merchant to register the one or more items for fulfillment by a fulfillment services provider. The inventory management system may, in response to receiving an indication of activation of the single action user interface element, register the item(s) for fulfillment by the fulfillment services provider.

Method and apparatus for registration of fulfillment services

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Thomas W Plaster