摘要 |
A method for facilitating online trading is provided. The method includes: a) providing a vendor database within a computer system containing details for vendors, b) the computer system receiving requests from the vendors to display offers for sale of their goods and/or services via a web site, c) the computer system programmed to provide the vendors with a facility to design vouchers using the web site, d) the computer system displaying the offers on the web site, e) the computer system receiving, via the web site, requests from consumers for virtual vouchers, each voucher providing a respective consumer an entitlement to purchase at least one of the goods and/or services on specified terms or for a specified price, and f) the computer system delivering virtual vouchers to the consumers in accordance with the designs of the vendors respectively and in accordance with requests from consumers received via the web site, each virtual voucher containing identifier details unique to the consumer concerned.
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