Abstract: A method of conducting an electronic repair business employing a mobile laboratory comprising converting a preexisting mobile vehicle of the van type into a mobile electronic laboratory and repair shop by first stripping all of the preexisting components in the van rearward of the existing front seats to provide a relatively flat floor from the front seats to the rear doors of the vehicle, the resulting floor being 10 to 12 feet wide, 16 to 18 feet in longitudinal direction and having a work space approximately 6 feet above the resulting floor, providing a transverse bulkhead arranged vertically behind the front seats, so that the space behind the bulkhead constitutes a work space, and fitting the work space into an electronics diagnostic and repair laboratory by adding the necessary work components and electronic components.

Abstract: A system of doing business which includes accessing, by consumers, merchants and credit card partners a website maintained by the owner of the system, the website having a specialized account therein for each of the consumers, merchants and credit card partners, each account being particularly identified to that particular consumer, merchant or credit card partner, each consumer having a specialized rebate credit card individualized for that consumer so that the consumer can make a purchase from a manufacturer who is a subscriber to the system, the purchase being made through the rebate card for which the manufacturer may provide a rebate coupon, the consumer mailing the rebate coupon by conventional mail to the manufacturer along with the account information from the website peculiar to that consumer, the manufacturer, thereafter, sending a rebate by e-mail to that website to be credited to the consumer's account.