摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a merchandise sales method which excludes excessive price competition, makes a maker and a seller realize stable business and normalizes a sense of values of a consumer to merchandise. <P>SOLUTION: In the merchandise sales method in which a store sells merchandise supplied by a maker to a consumer, the maker has a Web server 3 connected to a communication network and a database server 4 which is connected to the server 3 and stores a database. Additionally, the sales method is provided with: a step in which the store has a client terminal 7 accessible to the server 3 via the communication network, inputs order information to the server 3 through the store's terminal 7, and places an order for the merchandise to the maker in order to conduct consignment sale with a prescribed returnable period of time set for the merchandise; a step in which the server 3 resisters the order information from the store with the database of the server 4 to receive the order, and manages at least the merchandise from the reception of the order to the delivery of the merchandise to the store; and a step in which the store tentatively pays a sum for the merchandise, even if the sale is not for the purchase and sale, and inputs the reception of the payment and merchandise to the server 3 through the terminal 7. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |