| 摘要 |
A World-Wide Web/Internet-based system and method for facilitating the exchange of goods, services and information between buyers and sellers within a specified geographic area. The system implemnts a database methodology that organizes and stores information relating to buyers and seller of goods and services (18b) and associates geographic information (18a) with locations of items for sale. A buyer through a web-browser indicates a geographic distance radius and a search is conducted within the database to locate only those items indicated by the buyer that are located within that geographic distance (10). Those items are subsequently displayed and available for a buyer to purchase. Further, direct sales relationships are established locally by maintaining a registry of users that enable participation of other sellers and buyers with the system and tracking the associations of those users with the new buyer and sellers (18c).
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