Abstract: A method of facilitating a creation of group of customers and soliciting an offer for a plurality of goods or services, which includes enrolling a plurality of consumers in a service for submission of at least one offer to at least one vendor to purchase goods or services; receiving requests for goods and/or services from the plurality of consumers via a networking device; automatically processing requests for goods and/or service from the plurality of consumers to build at least one group request of similar and/or identical goods and/or services for a submission to at least one vendor; and submitting the at least one group request to the at least one vendor on behalf of the plurality of consumers.