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Online bartering has been going on for at least ten years. High profile websites that feature the service have been online for at least five years; a little surfing reveals that they are

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

going through a process of consolidation and realignment.

There are a couple of models for online barter. A few sites charge substantial fees for member merchants to join and advertise.

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

Their membership figures number in the tens of thousands. There are also sites that provide free access to people and merchants who wish to barter. Each site has a method of establishing

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

value for the members' goods or services, and each member has an account with the service based on what has been sold or bought. The host site takes a piece of each transaction, generally

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

five to eight percent.

www.ctebarter.com is now known as international monetary exchange. Membership costs $595.00 and the fee structure is 7.5% buy or sell commission. In addition ther

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

e is a $12.00 monthly fee. The site claims 15,000 members and advertises that base as an extension of your business advertising and account sources, should you join.

www.internetbarterex

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

change.net was established by a web hosting company ostensibly to assist its clients in expanding their business transactions. The host company, config.com claims to advertise the barteri

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

ng service - and member clients - through the purchase of keywords on Google and Yahoo. For clients who do not use the config.com web hosting service there is a $199.00 membership fee, a

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

$14.95 monthly maintenance fee and a 5% buy or sell commission.

The service available at www.trashbank.com is a general trading site with no evidence of fee structures at all. They are h

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

eavily engaged in selling advertising. www.u-exchange.com is also a fee-free site that has international aspirations, providing a search tool by country. Their financial model is also adv

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

erting-based.

At www.travelforbarter.com you will find the World Barter Banc which seems to have started as a travel barter service and has now expanded into the general marketplace. The

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

y claim 41,000 merchant members and have a specific and detailed index of product categories - eBooks, cosmetic surgery, costume jewelry, etc. The page has featured products which presuma

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

bly cost the merchant for prominent placement, as well as a product search feature. www.barterbucks.com is a site with a different look and a "founder" who came to the barter business thr

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ough participating with her own online company. However it has the same product index and is clearly the same operator.

www.frugalreader.com is a book exchange that works on non-monetary

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

credits - one for a paperback, two for a hardbound book. The service is free, but provides a premium level for a monthly fee that gives members the first shot at new listings, the abilit

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

y to limit listings, and so forth. www.bookins.com provides a similar service, with a more sophisticated point system and a centralized shipping system which presumably provides the site

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

with a source of revenue.

www.bigvine.com is a well organized directory of barter sites. You can choose from general barter, B2B, travel, and a number of straight commercial options such

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

as services that provide apartment listings and, in fact, vine vendors. Bigvine is a lead generation site, not a barter site.

www.barteritonline.com is a general bartering service with

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

no membership fee. Their home page divides your search options into B2B, media buying (read ad-swapping on the Internet), travel, human resources, office equipment, real estate and more.

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

This service has gone for wide distribution as opposed to a paying membership base; it is a pass-through service that advises its members to nail down shipping costs before closing a deal

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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