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Abstract

A system and method where the members of an advertising server that markets store deal coupons use conventional wired/wireless networking and ad-hoc networking to build spontaneous social networks, advertise the deals to other shoppers, and get referral rewards. Shoppers who receive the referral advertisements and are not members register and advertise the deal further to other shoppers to get rewards. Referring members specify the percentage of the referral reward they plan to share with the buyers. Referring members specify different reward sharing percentages for the same deal to different buyers. Shoppers who receive multiple referrals of the same deal from different members negotiate and buy the deal with the referral that gives them the best shared reward. Shoppers perform an indirect self-referral where they network and find another user to refer them to a deal that has a referral reward and they share the referral reward together.

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