E Bulk is designed for bulk purchases, allowing supplier and customer to meet up for many to one buying auctions. My company has two key innovations. The two phase auction bids for both shipping date and price. And my definition of the auction is defined in standard XML definitions, published. Against that XML definition I generate web tools for customers to bid wholesale direct from the suppliers web site.
Like Facebook, I will have definitions for the standard supplier, including history and reviews, shipping methods and outlets. Hence the presentation to the customer is quite uniform, yet the function and policing distributed.
Funding my company is easy, each supplier who defects from Groupon will get the same deal from me with only a fixed up front fee for my software widgets. Vendors are free to use the system to sell bulk coupons for already distributed goods, however, being able to predict time and quantity is a great advance for the manufacturer, and should greatly expand the small manufacturing business.
If you want to make software widgets for E Bulk, let me know, you can have the first three years of sales revenue for yourself, but you have to help set up the XML definitions.
Here is the customer experience:
Say I am looking for an Android tablet, and I stumble across the Acer site. Hey, great tablets, and I select the icon E Bulk, next to the product ID. What I get are prospective destinations, times and quantities for projected delivery, a standard E Bulk menu. I choose Apr with a bulk size of 100,000. So me and perhaps a million others are bidding to create a container full of Android tablets, for deliver in Apr.
Knowing the published format for E Bulk deals, my company will generate a search engine that tracks and sorts all the E Bulk trades going on. Customers can find the E Bulk deal of their choice. Bulk buying will become standard for high value, non-perishables. Of course my company will crash the entire retail brick and mortar commercial system, but that's OK, go right back into business with Deliverbot and these store fronts can keep on humming.
Open source software developers? Seriously, e mail me tell me where you are, do this, you can seriously gain some big commercial software work.
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