New Amazon Patent

[Carrie]

Originally posted by DaveAFX@Oct 27 2003, 10:47 AM
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser...=DN/20030200156

User interfaces and methods for facilitating user-to-user sales


Abstract
An online marketplace system provides various features for assisting users in listing products for sale, locating the listings for a product, and performing related actions. A user wishing to sell a product can browse to an existing description of the product in an electronic catalog and then select an option to create a corresponding listing. If the user previously purchased the product via the system, the user may alternatively select the product from a personal purchase history. To create the listing for the selected product, the user preferably specifies the product's condition and a selling price. The pending listings for a product are preferably displayed or summarized on the product's detail page in the catalog. When no such listings exist, an option to preorder the product from an unspecified seller may be provided. In one embodiment, the catalog also servers as a retail sales catalog of an online merchant.

Again... you have GOT to be fucking kidding me.

I wonder if anyone has patented a method of picking your nose with your finger, with an added-on filing of using a fucking tissue. I think I'll do that one and then sue Kleenex for giving people the means to infringe on my patent.