Providing a website for users with specific informed recommendations of specific consumer products and services validated by the users' inputted preferences and social network; Providing a searchable on-line advertising website and guide featuring the goods and services of other vendors via the Internet; Providing information pertaining to procurement, buying, selling and tendering information and opportunities relating to goods, services, and construction via computer, computer networks, telephone, the internet or electronic mail; Advertising and marketing services provided by means of indirect methods of marketing communications, namely, social media, search engine marketing, inquiry marketing, internet marketing, mobile marketing, blogging and other forms of passive, sharable or viral communications channels; On-line auctioneering services via the Internet; The bringing together, for the benefit of others, of a variety of goods and services, enabling customers to conveniently view and purchase those goods and services from an Internet web site particularly specializing in the marketing of the sale of goods and services of others; Providing a website for others to arrange and conduct the sale of textbooks