Retail services; retail sales services provided by means of a global computer network; computerised searching, ordering and on-line retail and wholesale distributorship services featuring general merchandise and general consumer goods; dissemination of advertising for others via an on-line electronic communications network; providing an on-line searchable database for the sale of goods and services of others; providing an on-line searchable ordering guide for locating, organising and presenting goods and services of other on-line vendors; database aggregation, integration and management services; auction services; auctioneering; retailing, wholesaling and distributorship services including such services being provided by means of a global computer network