in the pool by committing to purchase if the system can achieve a vendor offer that permits them to purchase at a purchase price that is at least as favorable as the early buyers commitment price such a purchase price is displayed to the registered purchaser at function block 320 which display may require reintegration of a multiple pool order using the correlation between the active pools and the purchasers in function block 212 not shown in this figure thus in this embodiment a multiple pool order would be presented to the associated registered purchaser in an integrated fashion whereby the purchaser does not see the pricing for individual components for his or her order in some respects therefore the pooling system of the present invention is transparent to the purchasers except insofar as they may optionally be provided access to individual pools as discussed hereinabove in connection with the decision making process of fig1 the system administration will formulate policy regarding the extent to which the pooling system and the pools are viewable by the purchasers after the early purchasers have committed to purchase at the early buyers commitment price as presented to them at function block 320 a purchase offer is calculated to vendors at function block 322 function block 322 is shown to exchange data at input port u201c e u201d that is shown again on the left sides of fig1 and 2 the offer price is responsive in certain embodiments to the pool size i e number of early buyers more specifically the offer price is in this embodiment responsive to the rate of accumulation of the early buyer over a determinable period of time as noted above the determinable period of time is established by pools and price cycle timer 240 fig2 and the time.