摘要 |
A method of marketing items comprising: publicizing an on-line auction to sell at least one item for a fixed price; preselecting at least one statistical rule; preselecting a number; receiving, at a data processing system, the at least one preselected statistical rule and the number; receiving at a data processing system, at least said preselected number of bids for at least one item, the number of bids being equal to or greater than the number; calculating, at the data processing system, the result of at least one statistical rule performed on said bids; applying, at a data processing system, at least one cancellation rule to selectively cancel zero or more received bids; and selecting, at the data processing system, one or more remaining bids to receive at least one item, according to a selection rule based on the result of the statistical calculation. |