In an online four-tier offering and bidding process, a first offeror
notifies traders of available products or services. Each trader then
communicates offerings to resell the offered products or services to
brokers associated with each trader. Then, the brokers respond with bids
to purchase the offered products or services according to a reseller
master agreement (RMA) which entitles each broker to offer to end users a
subset of the offered products and services. A guest profile in the
process contains entitlement definitions indicating allowable items about
which a guest user may receive information but for which is to be
restricted from placing bids, also according to the RMA. The process
prepares entitled offerings through filtering an available items list
according to the profiles so as to include only offered items per the
guest's entitlement. These entitled offerings are then presented to one
or more guests for review.