of the offered bargain as noted the bargain and pricing information with which the present invention is concerned is often difficult to obtain in a one way paging system the service provider may collect information for database 45 by monitoring bargain and pricing information in area publications to the extent that such information is published the service provider may also make its own efforts to collect the information additionally when a particular promotion occurs the merchant or manager of the event may notify the service provider knowing that the service provider can quickly transmit the information to a target audience who have already indicated an interest in such information even more effectively those who subscribe to the bargain information service may serve as an information gathering network because subscribers will have an interest in the service provider 39 s ability to collect the type of information they wish to receive they may telephone the service provider with bargain information they become aware of the information can then be disseminated to other subscribers who may be interested accordingly the subscribers themselves become an information gathering network this method of accumulating bargain information is facilitated in the preferred embodiment of the present invention which is practiced with a two way paging system as mentioned above in a two way paging system the subscribers may use their pagers 15 to send messages to the paging system 10 an input device 49 is provided on pager 15 with which the subscriber can enter a message regarding bargain information of which the subscriber has become.