20130080220 | Electronic System for Marketing Beverages - An electronic system for marketing beverages uses an information storage device for electronically storing product information about beverages for sale by beverage suppliers; a module for a prospective buyer to view beverage product information over a data network; and a module for registering a prospective buyer request of a beverage supplier for a sample of a beverage recorded in the information storage device and sending the sample request to the beverage supplier over a data network. The electronic system has a bargaining module enabling the prospective buyer and a beverage supplier to bargain, through communications sent through the data network, a purchase price for a quantity of the beverage following buyer sampling; and a contracting module enabling the beverage supplier to contract with the buyer for purchase of a quantity of sampled beverage at an agreed purchase price. | 03-28-2013 |