摘要 |
<p>The present invention includes a real time demand system and method for assessment of demand for goods or services in e-commerce transactions. The system has components for acquiring the price data of a particular product offered by a plurality of merchants (30) through Internet web sites, for acquiring the price data of a particular product actually purchased by consumers (20) through Internet web sites, for acquiring the price data of that product offered by a client merchant (10), for acquiring the cost data of that product to the client merchant, for acquiring pricing rules from the client merchant on which the product price can be modified, for modifying the product price based on the above data and rules, and for applying the modified price to the web site of the client merchant.</p> |