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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2006
Applicants:

Brian Alan Grove, San Jose, CA (US);

Zak James Edson, Campbell, CA (US);

Steve Grove, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew Leigh Sandler, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brian Alan Grove, San Jose, CA (US);

Zak James Edson, Campbell, CA (US);

Steve Grove, San Jose, CA (US);

Andrew Leigh Sandler, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and systems including an auction method including an auction price-setting process and a fixed price process for purchasing a seller's offering to a buyer. The seller may adjust a seller fixed-price offer during the auction price-setting process. Various embodiments include a network-based commerce system including, a processor coupled to a memory through a bus; and a fixed price-setting process executed from the memory by the processor to facilitate a request for an adjustment of a fixed price offer associated with a listing for an item, the request to be sent to a seller of the listing.


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