Facilitating Purchase of Excess Items

摘要

Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the purchase of excess items. In one embodiment, customer information and inventory data are retrieved from a merchant client. A determination is made on whether excess items exist. A list of target purchasers is generated based on data associated with a user account, and offers are generated and sent by electronic communication to the list of target purchasers.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying at least one program executable in a computing device, the at least one program comprising:
code that identifies a purchaser of a ticket for an event; code that obtains a plurality of contacts associated with the purchaser, the plurality of contacts being obtained from a third party social networking site; code that determines at least one target purchaser based at least in part on the plurality of contacts; and code that transmits a respective offer to the at least one target purchaser, the offer being for purchasing from an excess supply of tickets associated with the event through an electronic commerce system.