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This invention relates to a method and system as a branded club product (goods and services) discounting membership, universal discount card technology, hardware infrastructure, operational and software corporate team amalgamation, seller and buyer critical mass, essential implementation and real-time operational approach to integrate internet e-commerce with in-store commerce in physical store locations, at the point of sale (POS) checkout at store registers, of initially hundreds and eventually thousands of sellers, electronically and operationally, launching and igniting a whole new generation of advertising, buying and selling.
1. A method of buying and selling using club memberships as a basis for buyers to receive discounts on purchases of products offered by sellers through at least one of a computer system, the Internet, e-mail, electronic data interchange (EDI), television, telephone, facsimile (fax), catalogs, magazines, newspapers, coupons, and mailings and additionally at in-store locations, wherein the products comprise either goods or services, the method comprising:
making a plurality of discounted product offers from the sellers available to the buyers by integrating an Internet online channel of purchasing with real-world offline channels of purchasing;
providing the club memberships and associated membership cards of the buyers to provide access to the integrated channels and the discounted product offers from the sellers; and
wherein the buyers who are club members have access to a club Internet web site that allows the club members to access the discounted product offers on individual seller discount pages from the sellers directly linked through seller logos or seller names either generally or by product category to the club Internet web site without the buyers having to visit a multitude of seller sites separately and locate the individual seller discount pages from within information included on the seller sites.
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in response to viewing at least one of the discounted product offers from the sellers participating on the club Internet web site, the buyers can choose to make purchases online using respective buyer discount club membership card authorizations and identifying numbers along with payment instruments following secure buying procedures including optional benefits of free shipping or picking up purchased products at store locations, or use club member Internet site product discount information as shopping planning guide information, go to physical store locations of the sellers to make the purchases offline based upon the discounted product offers as advertised online, and immediately take the purchased products or have the purchased products shipped free due to size, weight or other considerations;
further comprising electronically transmitting seller product discount data from the Internet to points of sale at seller checkout registers in the physical store locations; and
wherein, at the physical store locations, the buyers by using the membership cards, which are club magnetic strip authorized and bar code scanned, electronically access the transmitted seller product discount data, and wherein the seller product discount data pertaining to the purchased products is automatically indicated on buyer register receipts of purchase.
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14. A club membership product discounting system in which sellers advertise discount product offers to buyers for purchase through an integration of online and offline channels, the system comprising:
means for hosting, managing and operating a club membership Internet web site on which the sellers can advertise the discount product offers to the buyers through links to discount pages from at least one of seller logos and seller names;
means for indicating additional important temporal product information at the seller logos prior to receiving commands from the buyers to link to the discount pages;
means for allowing the respective sellers to add, remove and revise data on the discount pages associated with the respective sellers;
means for linking to respective main web sites of the respective sellers from the respective discount pages;
means for allowing the buyers to purchase discounted products online securely; and
means for electronically transmitting discounted product data from the hosting means to seller in-store checkout registers.
15. The club membership product discounting system of
first means for allowing in-store use of club membership cards that each respectively include a magnetic strip as an authorization identifier when the respective card is electronically swiped at times of purchase;
second means for allowing the in-store use of the club membership cards including a bar code to activate a discount product tier automatically when electronically scanned before, during or after the other product bar code scanning or amount entering at checkout prior to the final total for the purchase;
means that seller offered club membership discounts on items purchased are automatically electronically entered via the in-store host system at the checkout registers, appearing on the buyers register receipt;
means that the club membership cards can incorporate smart card chip technology; and
means that the club membership cards can incorporate pass card technology.
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wherein in-store back room operations of host systems offering one level of free in-store discounts through the use of a individual in-store discount cards can operate in a similar manner but on additional levels electronically interfacing with the Internet product discounts they offer to buyers on the club membership web site.
This is a continuation-in-part of PCT/US2004/030762, filed Sep. 17, 2004 and having the same title as above. The benefit of U.S. provisional application no. 60/503,599 filed Sep. 17, 2003 and entitled �Method And System with Club Membership For Discounted Buying On The Internet And At Store Locations� is claimed herein, and the benefit of U.S. provisional application no. 60/534,236 filed Jan. 5, 2004 and entitled �Method And System With Multi-Tier Club Memberships for Discounted Buying On The Internet And At Store Locations�, is also claimed herein, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference herein, and claims the benefit thereof.
This invention relates to a method and system as a branded club product (goods and services) discounting membership, universal discount card technology, hardware infrastructure, operational and software corporate team amalgamation, seller and buyer critical mass, essential implementation and real-time operational approach to integrate internet e-commerce with in-store commerce in physical store locations, at the point of sale (POS) checkout at store registers, of initially hundreds and eventually thousands of sellers, electronically and operationally, launching and igniting a whole new generation of advertising, buying and selling. This technology-based marketing and sales, method and system, Internet online and huge real-world offline integration concept addresses discounting in the vast consumer national and international, retail and wholesale, products and services marketplaces, utilizing individually or collectively computer systems, the Internet, e-mail, electronic data interchange (EDI), television, telephone, mail, facsimile (fax), catalogs, magazines and newspapers.
The concept of sellers offering products (goods and services) to be purchased by buyers has been a practice engaged in by both individuals and corporations over very many years throughout the world. New ideas to promote this process through marketing and advertising via the use of many different mediums is continually being addressed and developed to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of such interactions in the specific area of shopping.
The overall competition from internet product and/or service sites competing in a relatively new industry presently address only 1.4% of the purchasing environment; whereas, 98.6% of all sales are presently being completed in the real-world, at point-of-sale store locations. While the internet is important and will become increasingly more important, at this point in time, the real-world area of sales holds sway over the true interests of sellers (merchants and manufacturers), buyers and financial institutions. These participants in the world of buying and selling would like to bring the great strengths of both of these elements together in a compatible and enhancing integration, but have yet to do so. Sellers are all trying to reach the largest potential audience of potential buyers for the least cost and offer those buyers products at costs that will entice buyers to purchase those products.
The present top ten (10) Internet sites relative to their shopping offering areas combined had a May 2004 total audience of 74.72 million. Separately in millions for the �shopping� portions of these ten sites according to the Nielsen/NetRatings in the Jul. 26, 2004 edition of The Wall Street Journal was Yahoo! Shopping (17.12), Shopping.com (15.73), BizRate (10.83), NexTag (8.11), MSN Shopping (5.73), PriceGrabber (4.54), Froogle (Google) (4.08), AOL Shopping (4.08), MySimon (3.01) and Shoptoday.us (1.49).
Advertising revenues paid by merchants to be on these Internet sites, some making up to 98% of these service providers' overall gross incomes, is the life blood of these organizations. In 2003, Yahoo! and Google combined accounted for 40% of the overall total of 6.6 billion dollars spent on Internet ads with their 1.650 billion dollar and 0.962 billion dollar respective gross revenues. In that same year, 2003, offline, real world, print advertising and marketing efforts in magazines totaled 11.6 billion dollars according to JupiterResearch, The Wall Street Journal, Jul. 27, 2004 edition. Internet advertising is proposed to equal print magazine advertising in the year 2007 at 13.8 billion dollars and exceed print ads in the year 2009 with 16 billion dollars compared to 15 billion dollars�a lot of Internet ad spending for a relatively small return.
Corporations presently advertise products on their own sites as well as on others including advertising on one or more of the following shopping search engine sites: Amazon.com Shopping, AOL Shopping, BizRate, Froogle (Google) Shopping, MSN Shopping, MySimon, NexTag, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com, Shoptoday.us, Trilegiant Shopping (Shoppers Advantage, Netmarket.com and Travelers Advantage), Visa Shopping, and Yahoo! Shopping. These Internet ad revenue driven sites charge for ad placements and web site links. Revenue options include but are not limited to �per click� charges that can range from $0.19 to $1.25, with or without a purchase being made, or require logo indication charges, or bill percentage of sale charges.
An article from Friday, Sep. 3, 2004, in The Wall Street Journal, Marketplace, Page A7, titled: �Shoppers Who Blend Store, Catalog and Web Spend More�. This article indicated quote: �A study by Forrester Research recently found that customers who shop three different ways�in store, on Web sites and with catalogs�spend about four times more than customers who shop only through one of those channels. Similarly, customers who shop two different ways spend two to three times more than the single-channel consumer.� This was also found by consulting firm J. C. Williams Group working with J. C. Penney Co. Many consumers like to be able to first check out items on the web before actually going to the store to buy same. Those that do also tend to buy more at the store when they do go. The linking of online and bricks-and-mortar is where retailers must direct their strategic planning to take advantage of this changing customer phenomenon.
However, with the many thousands of web sites vying for attention, the importance lies not only with merely being on the Internet but rather in being represented on a highly recognized, universally respected branded Internet site that is capable of drawing the largest audience of potential shoppers to which merchants can then present their selected potential buying opportunities enticing those consumers to come to real-world store locations. An individual does not have the time or inclination to view thousands of web site home pages
Smaller Internet sites with smaller audiences than the ten (10) largest offer shopping searches (e.g., dealcatcher.com (coupons), sundaysaver.com (weekly store newspaper ad flyers), onlineclothingstores.com and clothes-coupons.com along with the marketing service Performics owned by DoubleClick) are all fringe approaches attempting to capture a buyer market for the participating sellers offering products for purchase. These sites are less expensive sites on which to advertise but also provide less seller product exposure.
Another Internet web site �Offer Zone� is presently being put forth by American Express (AMX). Of the 61 companies, 25 are hotels, all of which either offer only 15% off their regular rates or a minimum of 15% off their rates. Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity.com, Priceline.com, Hotwire.com, etc. all are service providers addressing hotel accommodations that offer far better values than 15%, ranging from 40% to 70% off the regular hotel rates. The VISA+Club Membership Venture while concentrating on other retail areas than hotels will fall into the later group concerning such offerings. Also, included in the other American Express �Offer Zone� participants besides hotels are retail companies just offering �free shipping� depending upon the size of the purchase or asking for one to join their own separate memberships or giving discounts of 10%, 15%, 20% or 25% reductions with conditions�mostly by web or phone purchasing with only a few in-store opportunities. The American Express �Offer Zone� uses the various AMX Credit Cards. Again, it does not even remotely encompass the approach, intention or implementation of the present invention discussed below.
Many individual sellers presently offer free in-store discount cards to their customers that can be used in their own seller store locations to receive discounts on certain selected products. Customers fill out a short information card and are issued the discount card immediately, unless the cashing of checks by the customer will be desired, requiring additional time for the seller to review qualifications.
These one level, free one seller (merchant) in-store location discount cards, not club memberships, can be received by any individual customer and are given to promote loyalty among their customers by offering some discount opportunities when the cards are scanned at the checkout register prior, during or after ringing up purchases but before the final total. A customer can have a plurality of discount cards from a plurality of sellers, each one only valid at the individual stores of the specific issuing sellers. These cards are not affected by and can be used in conjunction with the present invention discussed below.
Financial institutions (banks) and some sellers issue credit cards (with or without rewards) and/or debit cards (with or without rewards). These financial instrument purchasing cards (e.g., Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Japan Credit Bureau (JCB), Diners Club, etc.) are used both on the Internet and at in-store locations to pay for the products (goods and services) offered by sellers. Rewards including points, miles, products, etc. by using these cards for purchases at various seller locations and seller product types are a marketing and sales incentive by the issuing corporations for the cardholders to use individual cards by receiving specific value. Some of these credit and/or debit cards are free and others have annual fees (e.g., $35, $55 , 95$, etc,). These cards are not affected by and can be used for the payment of product purchases in conjunction with the present invention discussed below.
In view of the above discussion, it should be evident that currently there are a wide variety of methods and devices that are available to a wide variety of companies of different types that are designed to create incentives to increase consumer spending on a variety of levels. While these existing methods and devices each have their respective areas of effectiveness, the methods and devices are largely disparate, are often duplicative, and generally fail to successfully operate in conjunction with one another in a manner that would effectively harness the opportunities associated with the integration of multiple channels of sales/marketing/promotion. Therefore, it would be advantageous if a new method and system were devised that allowed for such multi-channel integration.
The present technology-based invention integrates the Internet online and the huge real-world, point of sale (POS) at in-store registers, offline, with a marketing and sales, method and system for discounting in the vast consumer, national and international, retail and wholesale, products (goods and services) marketplaces via product discount club memberships along with the discount club member cards.
The development of this concept includes the full operational elements of this invention addressing such a unique and never before available total method and system approach for multi-tier club memberships for discounted buying on the Internet and at store locations (e.g., bronze club, silver club, gold club and platinum club). Each tier would address different product types with each successively higher level tier offering additional discounts than the tiers before along with the same discount offers of the lower tier memberships.
The club membership venture concerning the potential purchasing membership audience being vast, and demographic potential buyers to which participating sellers (merchants) will be presenting both within the internet community as well as in the real world of commerce, expresses the potential impact of this unique concept. The start-up will included an enormous fully activated club product discount card membership number, all simultaneous on the initial launch date.
The online/offline integration concept itself, the actual implementation/infrastructure along with the provider and user participants are all integral to the success of such a venture. While truly addressing discounting, the intention is not to merely further discount seller advertised discounts but rather to offer a new additional enormously valuable venue for marketing offerings to a huge uniquely viable shopping orientated audience, who will then make purchases in the many seller stores throughout the country.
As indicated, each major merchant participating in the launch of this venture, will be partially to fully reimbursed, depending upon the seller operational requirements, for hardware/ software/development costs, which include the individual seller IT personnel time in working with the venture software development/implementation teams as required for the integration and installation of the proposed base multiple discount level software and/or ISO 8583 Loyalty Messaging Format (for example) at the registers at the individual merchant's store locations. The system(s) would be tied into the individual seller controlled, club product discount seller site page(s) on the Internet for real-time data information transfer and which, in turn, would be directly tied to the individual merchant's own separate home page on their own Internet site for all other shopping offers.
In stark contrast to present shopping search sites that are seller ad revenue driven, the proposed club membership venture intends not to charge major sellers (merchants) for advertising (special ads excluded)�an enormous plus for the participating sellers, especially when considering the vast and unequaled, purchasing audience being proposed to be addressed. Revenues for the club venture will be generated by the annual, renewable, club membership fees, which will begin following an �initial� free three (3) month start-up period for the members.
Corporations can present their discounting approach and reduction percentages as are presently indicated in their ads without changing the discounts or offering anything in addition to that already advertised. Or, along with present corporate offerings, which in themselves may be most inviting, one, two or more items could be selected on occasion (e.g., once a week or once a month) in addition, as super special(s) directed solely to the vast club membership audience, as even a further incentive to bring them into their store locations. Specials can be shown to be offered for as little time as for one specific hour during one specific day or for as long as is desired. The flexibility in marketing is limited only by the imagination of the merchant.
Club members (buyers) can log onto the club product discount member Internet web site and using their individual club member numbers and password can access the listings of corporations (sellers) either by corporate logo, corporate name listing or product type to view discounts (e.g., discounts�20% to 55% off of the manufacturer suggested retail or list prices plus free shipping or super discounts�over 55% to 90% off of the manufacturer suggested retail or list prices plus free shipping) as offered by the sellers.
Additional information is available at the corporate logos such as indications of the date and number of the latest entries, the date and discount percent of present offerings and the date and time of discounting availability (e.g., one week, one day, one hour, etc.).
Full individual product information is shown along with pricing, discounts and savings to the club members. Individual products, more than one of the products, component products, out-of-stock, and waitlist offerings are available. Payments can be by credit card, debit card, check, money order or cash (at in-store registers). Purchases can be in the full amount, by monthly time payments until paid in full, or layaway until paid in full.
Club buyer members can just view the Internet product discount offers by the sellers to see what is presently available and then choose to go directly to the actual seller store locations to purchase the selected items. Products at the in-store locations are available at the exact same price as those shown on the sellers' Internet discount pages. The software program integrated into the sellers' host system (e.g., IBM, NCR, VeriFone, etc.) electronically transmits the data from the Internet to the resisters in real time. The club product discount cards have magnetic authorization strips that are swiped at the checkout along with a bar code discount tier identifier to automatically give the club member the appropriate discount when scanned prior to, during or after ringing up the purchases but before the final total. The discounts are automatically indicated on the buyer's register receipt. A manual approach to give the club member the correct product discounts is available via individual item sheets with bar codes, coupons or manually entering the item discount at the register.
Financial institution review found no negativity in this method and system, agreeing with the importance of having the issuing bank name on the card and indicating that they would like to be involved on a percentage of the annual membership fee revenues basis for additional financial institutional marketing for the venture. Very important and as previously stated, these club cards are preferably discount cards only, not credit or debit cards with or without rewards. This therefore, does not negatively impact the present or future issued financial purchasing cards, but rather will increase the volume of cardholder purchasing, generating greater revenue for the individual credit and debit card issuing financial institutions.
In addition, the club member product discount cards are totally separate from all of the present individual in-store merchant discount cards. Actual purchases will be made via credit cards (with or without rewards including individual seller (merchant) cards), debit cards (with or without rewards), check cards, checks, money orders or cash.
In certain embodiments, the present invention relates to a method of buying and selling using club memberships as a basis for buyers to receive discounts on purchases of products offered by sellers through at least one of a computer system, the Internet, e-mail, electronic data interchange (EDI), television, telephone, facsimile (fax), catalogs, magazines, newspapers, coupons, and mailings and additionally at in-store locations, where the products comprise either goods or services. The method includes making a plurality of discounted product offers from the sellers available to the buyers by integrating an Internet online channel of purchasing with real-world offline channels of purchasing, and providing the club memberships and associated membership cards of the buyers to provide access to the integrated channels and the discounted product offers from the sellers. The method is further characterized in that the buyers who are club members have access to a club Internet web site that allows the club members to access the discounted product offers on individual seller discount pages from the sellers directly linked through seller logos or seller names either generally or by product category to the club Internet web site without the buyers having to visit a multitude of seller sites separately and locate the individual seller discount pages from within information included on the seller sites.
Additionally, in certain embodiments the present invention relates to a club membership product discounting system in which sellers advertise discount product offers to buyers for purchase through an integration of online and offline channels. The system includes means for hosting, managing and operating a club membership Internet web site on which the sellers can advertise the discount product offers to the buyers through links to discount pages from at least one of seller logos and seller names. The system further includes means for indicating additional important temporal product information at the seller logos prior to receiving commands from the buyers to link to the discount pages, and means for allowing the respective sellers to add, remove and revise data on the discount pages associated with the respective sellers. The system additionally includes means for linking to respective main web sites of the respective sellers from the respective discount pages, means for allowing the buyers to purchase discounted products online securely, and means for electronically transmitting discounted product data from the hosting means to seller in-store checkout registers.
Other objects and advantages of the invention, besides those discussed above, will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art from the description of the preferred embodiment which follows. In the description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, and which illustrate. examples of the invention. Such examples, however, are not exhaustive of the various embodiments of the invention, and therefore, reference is made to the claims that follow the description for determining the scope of the invention. That is, the particular objects and advantages and other information provided above, and the description of the preferred embodiment and accompany drawings discussed below, may apply to only some embodiments falling within the claims and thus do not define the scope of the invention.
The present invention relates to a WIN/WIN/WIN CONCEPT FOR: INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER(S) (ISP) & NON-ISP CORP.(S); PARTICIPATING PRODUCT & SERVICE VENDORS/RETAILERS; and CLUB MEMBERS (non-paying (initial) and paying subscribers). Throughout this embodiment including the diagrams, ISP (or any AOL, AOLTW or VISA example) includes any ISP and/or any non-ISP corporation offering an Internet site platform/portal capable of providing for the Marketing/Sales Method & System of the present invention. Also, it should be noted that any SEARS example includes any participating corporations including, e.g., retail & wholesale (corp.) discounts & super discounts. Further, it should be noted that the CLUB MEMBERS can includes individuals & small/medium/large corporations.
The Marketing/Sales Method and System using Club Memberships provides a �Neutral, Vendor Platform� and a �Specialized, Internet Portal� for the available multiples of competing, responsible and reliable vendors and/or service providers in an almost unrestricted variety of legitimate areas to advertise the offering of special �discounts� (e.g., 20% to 55% plus Free Shipping) and/or �super discounts� (e.g., over 55% to 90% plus Free Shipping) from the Standard List or the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) on provider selected products and/or services. This is not merely a typical aggregation of corporate names with vendors/retailers' products and/or services offered in side-by-side comparisons of type, quality, price, etc. or the typical listing or display of corporate named links/connections to the general, individual product or service providers internet sites that a person might very well already know and could therefore enter their separate sites totally without the use of the concept. Rather it is a single, real-time source and platform for multitudes of participating retailers, service organizations, etc. to advertise their present and/or future enticing discount and super discount offerings to a very large audience of demographically targeted members and potential purchasers. After checking out the true specials, the individuals may very well enter the rest of the corporations' individual Internet sites to view their other offerings available to the general public. This one neutral, collective �discounting� location is a unique, highly interactive, product and service information communication, marketing and sales tool between vendors and buyers. This method and system replaces the need for an individual to search hundreds and even thousands of individual corporate Internet sites to find such discounts, which is not only extremely time-consuming but by the very nature of such a process is for all practical purposes impossible, along with integrating these almost unlimited number of Internet offerings on the aforementioned multitude of sites with those of the physical world at individual store locations for the same products and services. (See
An operational Method and System �Text� Scenario indicates both an Internet (on-line) and a retail store location (off-line) or call in request (off-line) to television, store, etc. offer approach. (See
An operational method and system �diagrammatic� scenario indicates an Internet (on-line) approach. (See
An operational method and system �diagrammatic� scenario indicates a retail store location (off-line) or call in request (off-line) to television, store, etc. offer approach. (See
The method and system will employ �independent�, ISP/Service Provider/Product Supplier/Manufacturer/Travel/Entertainment, etc. driven, single or multi-level ISP+club memberships (e.g., Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum). (See
The products and/or services discounts and super discounts offered by the participating vendors and service providers are presented �exclusively� to the ISP club members or alternatively to other competing ISPs' club members, if those ISPs, too, are permitted through licensing to use the method and system.
Instantaneous critical mass of both subscribers and participating vendors is absolutely necessary at the launch date(s) for the greatest success of such a venture; as subscribers will not be satisfied with either just a few vendor participants and/or just a few discounted or super discounted offerings, and, in turn, vendors will neither be compelled nor will take the time and the effort to offer substantial discounts and/or super discounts for just a few subscribers.
To obtain the initial critical mass of subscribers with �limited� or �standard� club memberships, these club memberships would be simultaneously �gifted� to all of the subscribers of the ISP providing the marketing and sales method and system. This would immediately include many millions of individuals. These subscribers neither ask for nor sign up for the initial memberships. All of the necessary member information is already on file with the ISP that the subscribers are using for internet access. The method of choice for informing the subscribers of their individual memberships is by e-mail. (This could be reinforced through a mass mailing option.) All subscribers are addressed with the mass e-mail program in which computer-generated club membership numbers and passwords are sent with a brief description of the upcoming discount and super discount vendor offering opportunities. No club membership cards would need to be issued during the initial several month �gifted� period.
To obtain the initial critical mass of product and service vendor providers, the ISP would approach the existing vendors already participating in the ISP's existing shopping and/or travel offerings network(s). In addition, other corporations would be approached with the opportunity of advertising to the new huge subscriber audience created with this unique marketing and sales concept.
The ISP should heavily advertise the upcoming event of the ISP+club membership offering prior to e-mailing to all ISP subscribers their limited or standard �gifted� several month ISP+Platinum Club membership number and password as well as after the mass e-mail effort. (A Platinum Club membership would give the ISP subscribers access to the entire range of offerings as opposed to a lesser value membership, so that the subscribers can later decide whether nor not to continue with a �paid� membership at the time that the initial �gifted� period ends and their initial membership expires.) This major advertising promotion will insure both widespread subscriber and vendor participation and result in a financial bonanza for the ISP, as well as raise the bar in �shopping� environments, making it very difficult for competitors to follow.
The club memberships can preferably be divided into multiple types to provide different offering opportunities depending upon the cost of the individual membership, such as ISP+Bronze, ISP+Silver, ISP+Gold and ISP+Platinum Club memberships. With separate membership types, various values and areas of products and/or services would be available with each of the different memberships�the higher cost memberships would include additional offerings along with the offerings of the lesser value memberships. (See
For ISP subscribers wishing to continue with the ISP+Platinum membership or one of the other three memberships (Bronze, Silver or Gold), after the several month �gifted� period expires, a monthly fee would be assessed and an actual MEMBERSHIP CARD issued along with allowing the member to select a new PERSONALIZED password, if one so desired.
Club memberships allow the holders not only to take advantage of offerings on the Internet but also to take advantage of offerings at the respective individual vendor's retail establishments, restaurants, service organization, etc. locations throughout the country or world. Any available ISP+club site Internet discount offering on a product or service would automatically be applied, at the time of the purchase of the same product or service, at the register of the retail location(s) when the club card, or appropriate club card if there are membership types, is electronically read or �swiped�, whether or not the club member is aware of the offered discount or super discount on the Internet. This will finally truly integrate the �virtual� and �real� day-to-day worlds. (See
ISP/Vendor �discount� and �super discount� site pages would be accessible only through the ISP's club membership pages which, in turn, would be accessed either from the ISP's site or directly from the individual vendor's/retailer's/etc. own site/home page/etc. without first going to the ISP home page or other ISP sites. The latter will bring up the ISP+club site requiring the member number and password; however, once the member has finished viewing the offerings and possible purchasing there, the member can then return to the corporation's Internet pages but, respecting the individual corporation, not to the full ISP discount and super discount pages, protecting the participating corporation from having members go to other competing providers or other offerings through their own site, unless that corporation does not find such movement objectionable. If the member had accessed the corporation by first going through the ISP sites, then the member would have full access to all of the other participating corporations' discount and super discount as well as standard Internet sites directly. Also, club members' selections by either the individual companies' logos (see
This new approach will be separate from and in addition to, not instead of, the present offerings by the ISP. This offering is truly unlike typical ISP shopping, or ISP travel offerings which, in effect, merely mirror the offerings of almost all of the other ISPs and/or other individual product or service vendors, relative to actual savings.
The system & method is not just a series of controlled single-day offerings at certain times of the year but rather a continuous every day, all-year discounting effort, offering within its format, specific day or hour specials. This new concept creates a very dynamic platform/portal with participating vendors/service providers constantly changing/modifying/ adding/deleting the ISP+club member offerings. This entices the members to check the sites often so as not to miss any truly unique opportunities to save�not waiting for some sporadic advertised sales event by a selected list of non-competing retailers on a semi-static shopping site with very few real discounted products/services.
It should be further noted that vendors totally control their own discounts and super discounts and the pages on which they are presented, indicating custom, or many, or one of a kind items, or services, and/or limited time offers, and/or combination offers, and/or out of stock/wait list (date) items, and/or lay-a-way, and/or any other manner of products or services as well as flexible payment arrangements to entice the ISP+club members. (Due to the great value deals, individuals may well choose to purchase even though they were not looking for a particular item or service�true �impulse� buying.)
Vendors that are not interested in providing discounts or super discounts on their products or services will not appear either by logo or item listings within the ISP+club membership sites. However, vendors that are interested will appear under item listings and, if they choose, also separately with their company logo. The logo may appear fixed, flashing, moving, enlarging, etc. with or without relevant dates for the most recent added item(s) (�latest�), length of discount period (�until�) or specific limited day discounts (�only�) can be indicated by the vendors providing club members with all important timing information, if they wish to review items for purchase (e.g.: latest: Jun. 4, 2003, 18 Items; until: Jun. 20, 2003, 40% to 50%; and/or only: Jun. 15, 2003, 10 AM to Noon). (See
Vendors offering only discounts or super discounts on very inexpensive items (e.g., $1 off a $5 item) when they sell many high priced items, just to entice ISP+club members to their site, will be dropped from presenting offers, for it undermines the spirit and intent of the concept by trying to skirt their obligation to offer truly substantial dollar values for the �privilege� of having their names seen on these sites by such a huge audience of potential buyers even though they would have to pay to advertise on the sites.
An important note is that the ISP+club membership sites are open to all �qualified� product and/or service vendors. The ISP solely reserves the right to determine what vendors meet the required qualifications to be placed on these sites for viewing by their membership. Quality, reliability, integrity, delivery and warranties of offerings are just a few in the overall list of necessary parameters for vendor participation.
The neutral platform will allow multiple vendors in multiple areas to decide on their unique strengths and abilities to offer the special discounts and super discounts. No individual store or entity, not even the largest retail chains, would be able beat or even match the vast array of potential offerings that can be put forth by such a wide variety of vendors of untold products and/or services. All qualified vendors will be welcome in all areas. (One specific example in a non-asset based service industry involved in travel and related service offerings separate from the individual asset based provider companies would include companies such as Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Orbitz.com, Priceline.com, Travelocity.com, Hotwire.com, CheapTickets.com, etc.)
With the eventual widespread use of the ISP+club membership cards at individual vendors' physical store locations as indicated above, the ISP will become a major world discounting leader with a base so large that other competing ISPs, without the use of the present method and system, will find it difficult to hold the interest of their shopping subscribers.
The ISP becomes a vendor itself in the ISP+club membership scenario, able to promote through special limited or individual month, second at half price or free, etc. discounts on the ISP's own products and/or services.
The ISP can also promote its ISP VISA card (if one is offered by the ISP) to handle the transactions through the ISP+club environment by offering �extras� that are not available through other VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, etc. cards with those organizations.
Product and service offers can include custom, one or many of a kind, limited time, combinations, wait-listed or out-of-stock, etc. in addition to the more standard approach. Also, the products and services can be purchased by credit card, check, money order, cash (at a store register), etc. and either outright, multiple payments, layaway, etc. giving the members numerous options that can be tailored to their individual situations.
Since ISP+club memberships only address the special discounts and super discounts on specific vendor offerings (unless other lesser, wider based offerings are added), any existing other ISP shopping and/or ISP travel offerings will remain viable and valuable services in the ISP corporate family for interested subscribers. The actual discounts on these other sites could also indicate the percent discount from the list or MSRP, so that the members would be able to realize their actual savings. (See
The ISP will hold sway over other ISPs with these unique discount and super discount shopping content sites not incorporating this discount approach. Subscribers who use other ISPs will have to participate through �bring-your-own-access� to the ISP using this service or lose out on the great deals. The �extra� monthly fees might well make those subscribers decide to just switch to the ISP offering the method and system. And eventually, those that are not with any ISP might well decide to join the ISP when they see ISP+club members checking out in line in front of them receiving the automatic discounts at the same stores and on the same items that they are paying full or higher prices.
As already discussed, the present method and system in various embodiments can provide ISP+club memberships and/or non-ISP+club memberships, and can allow a variety of different possible membership types such as, for example, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum membership types both on-line and off-line. The method and system can allow for discounted and super discounted pricing for a variety of specific products, hotels, travel, services, etc., some or all of which may be separate from and/or in addition to any existing ISP shopping offerings, ISP travel offerings, or other offerings.
The implementation of this business concept will position the ISP as a neutral, price sensitive, quality Internet destination venue or marketplace/portal for a most truly diversified range of retail/wholesale, products/services on-line offerings, which are also available off-line at the individual participants' physical locations, whether or not the member(s) were first aware of the Internet offering(s). Due to the unique nature of this concept, ISP competitors will be hard pressed to replicate the success of this approach, which will generate substantial annual revenue for the ISP entity.
The potential advertising bonanza for participating providers of goods and services through this club membership approach is almost unlimited. Solid discounting and/or super discounting of items will direct members to their individual discount/super discount pages and then to the individual product buy pages with percentage discounted pricing from the manufacturers' suggested retail prices (MSRP) along with price and savings comparisons. From these pages the club members can be directed into the providers' own individual sites for additional sales opportunities on other goods and/or services before returning to the club membership site. Advertising to such a large audience of millions of members will justify substantial advertising revenue to the ISP along with the revenue generated from both the new membership fees and the potential additional sales of other ISP goods and services through this venture. These new areas of revenue will provide an enormous capital infusion into the ISP entity along with a tremendous growth period both in size and valuation for the corporation. The ISP can hold sway over its rivals as they struggle to meet the new high bar in this fiercely competitive Internet industry.
An extremely intensive and continuous marketing effort must be supported by the ISP to allow sufficient personnel to contact and adequate resources to deliver the message to both present and potential future provider participants. The success of this major integration of the virtual Internet and real world buyers' marketplace environment of a multitude of providers, across a very broad spectrum of goods and services, is to present both discounting as well as super discounting on the costs of their individual offerings. This will create a never before seen or even contemplated assemblage�a truly grand amalgamated marketplace with outstanding pricing, a buyer's dream.
Also as discussed above, in certain embodiments the present method and system will involve a new marketing/sales method and system concept in which the ISP (and/or non-ISP) possibly e-mails and/or mails (or otherwise communicates) to all present ISP subscribers and/or card holders offering an enormous discounted buyers marketplace opportunity, in which a gift is provided from the ISP to all its ISP subscribers and/or card holders.
The ISP is giving a unique gift to all its subscribers/card holders, both individuals and/or organizations, by providing an opportunity for both product/travel/hotel/service/etc. suppliers to offer special discount and super discount pricing to all its subscribers who, in turn, will benefit by the savings obtained on purchases during an initial multiple month free trial club membership period.
In certain embodiments, the ISP would offer four (4) club membership types (see
Following a possible three month (more or less) initial free membership period, the gifted ISP+Platinum Club membership will automatically expire. Should the member wish to continue with the Platinum Club or wish to choose the Bronze, Silver or Gold Club memberships, the member will have to contact the ISP. At that time, the member would be sent a club membership card and could select a new personalized password. This would then allow an individual or organizational member to continue to receive club member savings on future purchases and services. The limited multiple month club membership might not include discounts on other services, benefits, perks, fees, access charges, etc. offered by the ISP.
Describing a use of the marketing/sales method and system, an ISP+club member either logs onto the Internet from a computer or other electronic device or the member enters the physical store location of a particular Internet participating ISP+club vendor or service provider. If the member chooses the Internet approach, the individual can go to the Internet home page of the ISP provider (see
On the ISP+club site, the member enters an assigned club member number as well as a given or personalized password prior to being able to purchase from any of the participating retailers, vendors, service organizations, etc. The member can go to the ISP+Bronze Club membership page, the ISP+Silver Club membership page, the ISP+Gold Club membership page or the ISP+Platinum Club membership page depending upon what club membership the individual held (see
The individual corporate logos can be selected by �clicking� on same to proceed to the individual corporation's ISP/corporate discount or super discount page(s). These logos can be fixed, flashing, moving, enlarging, etc. to draw the attention of the member. Also, additional information can be placed with the logos indicating such things as the latest date that new items or services have been placed on the corporation's discount or super discount pages (e.g., latest: Jun. 15, 2003, 30 items), the date up to which certain discounts will be valid (e.g., until: Jun. 20, 2003, 50% off) and/or a date and time of upcoming discounts (e.g., only: Jun. 22, 2003, noon-5 pm), etc. This helps members to make certain informed judgments prior to actually going to any individual participating corporation's site.
Under the item or area descriptions one can select individual products or services and �drop-down� boxes where the corporate names will appear for selection purposes (see
The member can purchase the item or place any selection in a shopping cart or basket for purchase or later elimination following reviewing other items for purchase. Items or services offered by the vendor, retailers, service providers, etc. can be for example even one-of-a-kind as opposed to having many available, the member can be offered to purchase more than one for an equal or greater discount, combined offers of items or services can also allow for a greater discount opportunity, out-of-stock items can be offered with a reorder time period indicated, similarly waitlist items can be offered also to be available within a time range, etc. To purchase the products and services, the member may pay the amount in full at the time of purchase, use a time payment plan by paying a specified amount per month until the total is reached, pay on a lay-away basis whereas the item or service is sent, picked-up or available when the full purchase price has accumulated, etc.
Members using the Internet could opt to pay using a credit card, check, money order, etc., whereas, members purchasing in a physical retail store location and paying at a register can, in addition to the aforementioned, use cash. Members shopping in participating vendors' stores �automatically� would receive the same discount or super discount that the vendors are offering on the Internet when the member shows and has the ISP club membership card �swiped� at the time of purchase, even if the member was not aware that the item to be purchased had the additional discount available. This offering through the use of the ISP+club membership card truly integrates the virtual world of the Internet with the physical world of the day-to-day reality.
After purchasing or just viewing the possible discount and super discount offers on the Internet site of a participating corporation, the member can go to the home page of the vendor to view other offerings that were available, continue searching through other vendors' sites using the method and system, go back to any previous site visited, go to other sites on the Internet, or log off the Internet.
Depending upon the embodiment, the ISP (and/or non-ISP)+club membership cards can have a variety of characteristics in use, including those which are associated with the level of the card (e.g., Bronze, Silver, Gold & Platinum or one level). This following discussion addresses, in additional detail, exemplary actual physical club membership discount card characteristics and merchant/member steps in operation/use for the above-described method and system with club memberships for discounted buying on the Internet and at store locations. In particular, the following discussion continues in the presentation of certain exemplary individual aspects of the aforementioned method and system with club memberships relative to online/offline integration for the national/international, retail/wholesale, products/services, discounted buying marketplace:
The initial �gifted� or free ISP or non-ISP+club membership discount and super discount card would be Platinum, if multiple levels rather than one level of membership were decided to be offered. Including the option of multiple levels, the club card could either be only a discount card or both a discount as well as a payment card.
The first option (the �two-card approach�) is for the+club card to not also serve as a payment card but rather only a discount and loyalty card which can be used with or without other in-store discount cards, which would give additional and separate savings from those available with the+club card. Any item(s) then to be purchased with the discounts deducted by using this club membership card would then be paid for by a variety of methods including credit or debit card (e.g., VISA, Master Card, American Express Card, Discover Card, Japan Credit Bureau, Diners Club International, Debit Cards, etc.), check, money order or cash.
With the two-card approach, the discount card being separate from any of the aforementioned payment cards, any credit, debt or no cardholder could get a+club card, for credit limitations are not applicable. Since multiple credit or debit cards, checks, money orders or cash can be used for purchases, the discount card can be used universally by the greatest number of purchasers.
The second option (the �one-card approach�) is for the+club card to serve as both a discount and a payment card. With the one-card approach there is obviously one less card needed than with using the two-card approach. However, one must then be a credit or debit cardholder to obtain a+club discount card, making credit worthiness and limits applicable. Also, if the credit or debit card with which the+club card is combined is �maxed out� or at its limit, the discount card portion would automatically be void until the credit or debit limitation was rectified. Numerous side-by-side 1-card versus 2-card advantages/disadvantages are shown on two Analysis Sheets using VISA as an example of a possible major organization to issue the+club memberships�VISA+club membership cards (for a VISA example, see
A �magnetic strip� on the back of a card would be used similar to a debit card with a password or �pin� number or without a password like a credit card for verification of the authenticity of the+club card by being �swiped� in a card reader or with �pass� technology at the point of sale or register offline in a physical store location(s) (for a VISA example, see
Following authenticity verification using the magnetic strip or �smart� chip, a �bar code� on the back of the card would be �scanned� Oust as where in-store merchant discount cards with bar codes are scanned), to activate any discounts available to the purchaser being a+club member. The+club memberships may come in one or more levels (Bronze, Silver, Gold & Platinum). With multiple levels, the bar codes would incorporate different sets for each level. The in-store bar code on the individual in-store discount card would continue to give discounts just as they do now. Then, with multiple levels, the+Bronze Club card would not give the regular in-store discounts but rather discounts other than those available with the individual in-store card. The+Silver Club card would give the discounts available on the+Bronze Club card as well as additional discounts. The+Gold Club card would give the discounts available on the+Bronze Club card and the+Silver Club card as well as additional discounts. And finally, the+Platinum Club card would give discounts available on the+Bronze Club card, the+Silver Club card and the+Gold Club card as well as additional discounts (again,
Prior to this method and system, the need did not exist to have multiple bar coded discount �group� levels read at any individual store locations. While the separate identifying bar codes of the individual products are presently read at the register and any additional discounts for the daily, weekly, etc. in-store special discounted items entered into the store system/back room operations are given to purchasers using the in-store discount card with its bar code. Since the present in-store cards are �free�, and since they only work within a particular store, while identifying products along with customer use through the individualized bar codes for that customer, there was absolutely no reason to provide multiple levels of discounting requiring multiple bar coded discount �systems� within any individual store's operations.
The+club card �bar code(s)� will run on the same network as the in-store �bar code� discounts, but access different items and discount amounts. The additional �bar code(s)� (one or one for each level if using multiple level club cards) will be integrated into both the register and the back room operations of the participating stores, using the same existing or similar compatible technology, dramatically simplifying the+club card implementation in both time and cost (again,
The discounts and super discounts offered offline can be or will be the same as those offered by the individual participating merchants online, for those offering both online and offline discounts, as shown on an Internet shopping web site(s), portal(s) or hub(s). This will be the first truly universal online / offline integration concept brought to fruition (see
The+club cards can also incorporate the use of�smart� chip card technology to track and store additional data allowing greater flexibility in use, loyalty solution benefits and recording features (although, transferring information from the thousands of in-store discount cards would never happen, not to mention that merchants use their in-store discount cards with their individual names as part of their advertising/marketing programs). This �smart� chip technology will be able to incorporate the transfer of data from the Internet online offerings of participating merchants to their individual offline store's point of sale/register locations in �real time��potentially being able to replace the bar code requirement when and if desired by the participating merchants. In contrast, other data tracking and loyalty solutions address tracking of purchases with �bulk� transfers once every twenty-four (24) hours (see
However, �smart� cards require additional development and implementation requirements, hich are both timely and costly to member partner financial institutions and to merchants wishing to integrate such technology into existing operations (again, see
This concept is the first true Internet online/in-store offline integrated at point of sale (POS) registers in real time, marketing and sales, method and system for the discount purchasing of goods and services. Universal preferred customer club membership cards, �Your Shopping Companion�, are issued with club memberships. Examples of non-ISP providers that could be name identified on the club membership cards are major banks and financial associations that issue credit and/or debit cards and/or reward cards and/or gift cards, etc. include, in alphabetical order, American Express, Bank of America (includes Fleet and MBNA), Capital One, Chase (includes Bank One), Citigroup, Discover, HSBC, Providian, Wells Fargo and US Bank as one embodiment of the present invention (See
The universal preferred customer club membership cards are preferably only discount cards and not also payment cards, actual purchases being made by credit cards, debit cards, reward cards, checks, money orders or cash. There will be no cost to the issuing institutions for the free temporary discount cards or any of the marketing notices, flyers, venture advertising or mailings. The card issuing institutions will receive a percentage of the annual+Club fees generated from payments for the permanent discount cards for the marketing of club discount cards issued under their institution name. Also, these club discount cards provide a dual advertising venue by marketing the names of the issuing institutions along with the+Club memberships. These non-payment+Club cards will also enhance the use of the card issuing institutions payment cards. Additionally, the card issuing institutions' payment cards use can be further enhanced by the institutions offering reward or percentage incentives to use the institution named+Club discount cards with a similarly named institutional payment card.
The critical mass of venture start-up consumers (i.e.: 100 million present credit card and debit card holders) selected by the aforementioned examples of major card issuing institutions and associations would be sent temporary free fully activated club membership cards simultaneously at venture launch. These universal club membership discount cards will immediately allow these selected consumers to receive special discounts on products and services both online on the Internet and offline in stores at point of sale (POS) registers (i.e.: 5% to 50% off the MSRP) or super discounts (i.e.: 51% to 90% off the MSRP). Following a time period (i.e.: three months) temporary club members can purchase permanent annual memberships and receive permanent discount cards, optionally paid for with a credit or debit card in total or monthly. The magnetic strip identification permitting access to the discounts and bar coded discount system technology will provide the consumer a record of the discount purchases on their register receipts. Smart card technology along with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology or pass technology are other future possible card enhancements. Consumers can shop in stores or order on the Internet and pick-up purchases at actual store locations if in stock or to be shipped to the stores from remote locations if not in stock for pick-up or request that Internet purchases be shipped to them directly
Examples of potential major merchant participants, in alphabetical order, include Ace Hardware, Banana Republic, Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, Blockbuster, Bloomingdale's, Borders Group, Circuit City, GAP, The Home Depot, Ikea, JC Penney, Kmart, Kohl's, Linens-n-Things, Lowe's, Macy's, Marshall Field's, Marshalls, Menards, Nordstrom, Office Depot, Office Max, Old Navy, Pottery Barn, Radio Shack, Sears, Staples, Target, TJ Maxx, Toys �R� Us, Walgreens, Wal*Mart, and Williams Sonoma. With merchants hosting+Club banner links on their main Internet sites to allow consumers to view their+Club discounts and/or super discounts area on the main+Club Internet site, a reciprocal advertising venue is created actually advertising+Club memberships (See
This vast multi-channel online/offline approach to marketing and selling will generate substantial additional revenue for merchants and manufacturers as never before, multiplying consumer spending while driving in-store growth at brick-and-mortar locations. Approximately 96% of shopping takes place in the real or physical world in store locations; whereas, approximately 4% of shopping occurs in the virtual world on the Internet. Once in the actual store locations to make a planned expenditure, according to statistical research, up to 60% of the total final purchases by consumers will consist of items other than those originally sought. Marketing to the enormous demographic of proven shoppers via the huge Internet site for no fees will be a unique opportunity for both merchants and manufacturers. Unlike typical ad revenue driven Internet providers (i.e.: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, etc.), with the annual membership fee driven club venture, on the+Club Internet portal site there will be no logo or name listing charges, no advertising charges, no product or service offerings charges, no per click charges, no percentage of final sale charges and no site management or operational charges. All base software, the integration and its installation into the individual merchant's host systems of the fully electronic system at their point of sale (POS) registers will also be free to those merchants participating in the initial venture launch along with an allowance to assist in developing their individual site pages to appear on the main site. A manual coupon system for in-store discounting at their registers is an option to the fully automated electronic system for merchants desiring same in a manner similar to services as provided by organizations like E-centives.
Loyalty Software Specialists (i.e.: Catuity Incorporated, etc.) offering membership and reward card programs with their relationships with POS terminal manufactures, ECR manufactures, store system suppliers, card associations, integrators, card suppliers and manufacturers, etc. will participate in base software development and integration of online/offline data transfer in real time to point of sale (POS) registers of the individual and/or multiple host systems of the participating merchants..
Corporations offering enterprise software and IT services providing integrated solutions and business consulting services (i.e.: IBM, EDS, Compuware, etc.) are some of the other participants in the venture implementation process addressing the enormous base software integration requirements into the numerous merchants' host systems at the multitude of store locations.
Major merchant check-out cash register and equipment manufacturers (i.e: IBM (with a 60% dominant market share of the top 100 retailers worldwide), NCR, NCI, Dell, HP, etc.) with both their strong relationships with merchants and manufacturers and presence at the point of sale (POS) with in-store sales can enhance their existing relationships by offering the individual merchants free participation in the+Club offering while providing the needed assurance to the merchants of the overall base software integration process within the closely guarded secure individual and/or multiple host systems of these merchants already using their equipment while gaining financially through their own participation.
ISP or Internet Search Engine providers (i.e.: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves, AOL, etc.) with their relationships with merchants and manufacturers via advertising, marketing and sales to their individual audiences of consumers also can enhance these relationships with both merchants and manufacturers by offering free participation with+Club to their individual corporate clients while gaining financially through their own participation.
Internet shopping site operators and management services addressing online marketing and loyalty programs directed to financial and retail companies (i.e.: Trilegiant Corporation (Cendant), IAC, etc.) with their relationships with merchants and manufacturers and Internet sales and marketing offerings provide online shopping fundamentals experience.
Major call center operations within the United States and/or in other countries will address the enormous customer relations requirements associated with such a large membership base and the necessary amalgamation of participating corporations.
It is specifically intended that the present invention not be limited to the embodiments and illustrations contained herein, but include modified forms of those embodiments including portions of the embodiments and combinations of elements of different embodiments as come within the scope of the following claims.
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I remember very well the giant tennis racket outside of Wards Sports. A little further down was a menswear shop Smart Westons, and what was the name of the coffee bar that was near to both of these shops? Romford was a clean, and ...Read full memory
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We moved to Romford in 1951 from Havering where we lived with Nan and Grandad in Pinewood Road. It was an exciting time for me but also an unhappy time leaving Nan and Grandad's house. We moved ...Read full memory
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If you ask Tyler Goeddel, a little rain isn't always a bad thing.
Before a rain delay that lasted more than two hours Tuesday night, the Rays' No. 16 prospect struck out with a runner in scoring position. After play resumed, he went 4-for-4 with a walk, three RBIs and two runs scored to lead Class A Bowling Green to a 14-5 romp in Dayton.
"I was disappointed in my first at-bat, especially since with a runner on third with less than two outs, it's my job to get him in," Goeddel said. "In a way, it was good to have that break and clear my mind before we started playing again."
Even after the delay, Goeddel wasn't quite out of the weeds. With two down in the bottom of the second, the third baseman muffed a two-out grounder and Dayton went on to score four runs.
"It was a routine play. I thought I had it in my pocket and it bounced out," Goeddel said. "That's a play I should make every time."
After that, however, it was clear sailing for the 2011 first-round Draft pick. He earned some immediate redemption with RBI singles in the third and fourth.
"I was able to find some holes and put some strong at-bats together," he said. "Luckily, they resulted in hits."
In his next at-bat, he spotted an opportunity and seized it.
"I saw the third baseman [Tanner Rahier] was playing me back and I thought, 'I know if I can get good bunt down, I'll be able to have a hit.'"
Not only did he get a hit, he ended up on second after an errant throw by pitcher Wandy Peralta. Goeddel moved to third on a base hit by Justin O'Conner and scored on a single by Leonardo Reginatto.
The 20-year-old Californian walked in the eighth, which was a challenge, given the temptation that comes with swinging a hot bat in a high-scoring game.
"Even in a game like this, it's hard. I swung at a few pitches I know I shouldn't have swung at, but it's tough to stick with a game plan," Goeddel said. "If you can calm down just a little bit, though, it helps you to have a lot more success."
Goeddel was a Midwest League All-Star last year in his first crack at pro ball. He ended the season with a .246 average and .335 on-base percentage. Tuesday's four-hit game, his first of the season and third in the Minor Leagues, lifted his average to .237. And he's hitting .333 with 13 RBIs over his last 10 games.
Patrick Leonard, Tampa Bay's 20th-ranked prospect, chipped in two hits and two RBIs for Bowling Green. No. 13 prospect Jeff Ames pitched a 1-2-3 first inning before the rain came and Matthew Spann (1-0) picked up the win, despite allowing five unearned runs on seven hits in four frames.
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Does anyone hate/regret your cork flooring?
We are strongly leaning towards cork flooring in at least the kitchen and likely the great room and dining room also for our new house and was wondering if anyone who has cork now wish you didn't and for what reasons? Also, if there are any particular brands that are great or that you'd stay away from? We actually have several flooring stores that carry cork now so that has been a change from the past couple years. I've really like some of the patterns and the very large number of colors available from Duro-Design but I'm a little concerned about finding someone to install them (although it doesn't look all that complicated).
I have sold and installed 1000's of sq ft of cork flooring and never had anyone completely regret their decision.
You have to be realistic about your lifestyle and cleaning habits though.
Just like a standard hardwood floor, cork flooring needs to be kept clean. Sand, grit and moisture are the the worst enemies. If you sweep or vacuum on a regular basis, use rugs at the entry areas and keep pads on chair legs, you will love your cork flooring for many years.
Also, just like standard hardwood floors, cork can be sanded and refinished down the road someday.
I have had good luck with Qu-Cork. Not a big line of colors, but a quality product. www.qucork.com
I've also sold Natural Cork. www.naturalcork.com
I always recommend looking for a "natural" color rather than a "stained" color when selecting any wood or cork product. Simply because scratches and wear will be more obvious in stained colors. If you deeply scratch a natural color, you will only see the same color underneath.
Cork installation is reletively easy if you have a good saw and other basic tools. May have to pick up an "undercut" or "jamb" saw to float the floor through doorways. Never cut around doorjambs and casings! very sloppy.
I just finished a project for a retired farm couple where we put cork in the kitchen, dining room and down the hallway to the bedrooms and office. She loves it for the comfort, quietness and easy maintenance. She only regrets that we put carpet in the family room and office instead of continuing with the cork.
Again, be realistic about your home. Cork will handle alot of abuse, but should be treated somewhat carefully, like a solid wood floor.
good luck
I have Marmoleum click in my kitchen. it's a three layer made of foam, then cork, topped with linoleum. It was installed July 2006.It's a "floating floor", installed over a sub-floor, layer of plain lineolum and a floor of place-and- press-tiles we DIY'ed in 1981. It was expensive, but I think worth it. the floor is beautiful, sturdy, good underfoot (it has some "give" so it's comfortable to walk on, and easy to keep clean (ten minutws a day to sweep then mop with a Swiffer wetJet) I love it!
We have had our glue down tile cork floor in our kitchen for a year now. Still looks great, no regrets. We chose cork because our pool is just outside our kitchen and wanted something that wouldn't be too slippery and thought it would hold up better than hardwood with any drips from chlorine pool water. Added bonus: good for knees and back and is absolutley georgous! We went with the flooring company our builder recommended and they carried Solida Cork.
We are now considering cork for our family room to replace the carpet there. Am considering planks for this area.
I'm still vacillating: my upper floor has a loft space that's a library/office, and my bedroom. I'd like cork, but I have radiant floor, so I'm told I ought to avoid glue down, and I worry that floating will be noisy, despite the cork.
It also bugs me that most of the cork I've been looking at has a paper thin wear layer over a cork composite cushion layer. If the roller of an office chair [or my bull terrier] digs in even a little, seems like it would cut the 'good' stuff and expose the crumbly layer.
I was a little concerned with the thinness of the cork but no problems in my 1 year old kitchen. I cat with claws, 2 children 9 and 10. The pattern is so busy and has texture, it would be hard to see dings or digs. After the install they did leave some cork filler and glue to use if needed.
We put down 1' X 2' glue down tiles in our bathrooms and laundry room about four years ago. We wound up having to replace both bathrooms due to moisture issues with the concrete slab (too much moisture coming up through the slab). The tiles began ballooning up in the center. Proper installation procedure was followed, a quality glue was used, a quality tile was used, and we still had problems. Our engineered wood floor had no moisture issues.
Overall, we liked the cork. It was soft, warm, quiet, and durable, but we had problems with it, but we would have had problems with sheet flooring as well.
Make sure you check the moisture content in more than one season if you have a slab!
I have just had cork flooring tiles installed by a contractor in my bathroom. I am very disappointed because the seams have buckled . From my reasearch I now see that a coat of waterbased urathane is reccommended to aovid moisture proglems. There is no moisture underneathe I think it is because of water on the floor in the bathroom. does anyone have any idieas as to how to repair these raised seam lines? should I roll them and then try a coat of urathane or contact my contractor ank ask him why he did not do this or tell me that this still needed to be done?
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Welcome spring on Saturday, April 25, 2015, the date of our annual herb sale.
The doors open at 8:30, but the line starts forming much earlier. We are at our traditional location, the First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, located at 10 West Lockwood (at Elm).
We are already planning the sale. Check out our 2015 WGHS Herb List. The list may change because of plant availability and growing conditions, but we will keep the list updated. You can start planning your herb garden now.
If you would like to see a certain herb at our sale, contact us at email@example.com.
We will have the traditional herb favorites including many varieties of salvia, basils, lavenders, rosemaries, scented geraniums, and more.
WGHS provides student scholarships in herb-related studies, makes donations to community projects, donates plants and member hands-on help in maintaining the herb gardens at Hawken House in Webster Groves, Mudd's Grove in Kirkwood, and the History Village Herb Garden at Faust Park in Chesterfield. These gardens are open to the public and showcase the herbs that grow so well in this region.


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This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados alike insights into more than 400 of Washington, D.C.''s, most important landmarks. Organized into 19 discrete tours, this thoroughly redesigned and updated edition includes 45 new entries, encompassing the House of Sweden and the U.S. Institute of Peace, classic buildings that epitomize the city-the White House, the Capitol, Union Station-and a number of private buildings off the beaten path.
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I have had the opportunity to stay at this property two to three times per year for the last five or six years and I have never been disappointed. the property is always clean, well appointed and comfortable. The rates are comparable to any other property in the area. Staff is accommodating and the services are exceptional. Well worth the money even though it is a little difficult to find.
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