Etowah TN - April 26, 2004 - NuMarkets the pioneer of ebay consignment selling and shipping centers, announced it has released its newest patent pending version of Simple TM software and has begun scaling franchise deployments using Simple Technology.

Deployment of NuMarkets SimpleTM Software is designed to support full functionality of Enterprise Class Software for greater efficiencies in core operations and higher levels of customer service providing increased productivity, speed, and flexibility.

"The software solutions that are available today in the marketplace fall short on performance to run a full eBay consignment and shipping business and are designed to function as auction management software," said Russ Grove President & CEO. "NuMarkets developed and filed for patent protection on its Simple Software and business processes. We are excited to be in a position to deploy our franchise systems and have spent the past two years working on the Simple technology and processes to raise the bar of performance".

"Having franchise owners provide local in-store processing with NuMarkets' centralized hub and spoke data transfer are key functions to position NuMarkets as the low cost producer in this exciting new space of eBay consignment selling. We have taken all the difficult and technology related functions out of the equation for the franchise owners and provide a NuMarkets Centralized Commerce Support Center that will allow the franchises to focus on their mission of providing outstanding service to it customers. "

Our franchised selling and shipping centers focus on four main functions, greet public, process items, warehouse items until sold, and pack and ship items. Through it's patent pending business methods process, NuMarkets supports the franchise operations through its Centralized Commerce Support Center. Commerce Service provides all technology uploads, eBay posting, customer inquiries, checkout, payment processing, order fulfillment, metrics & reporting, consignor payment, quality measurements and control from a centralized center.

NuMarkets has launched a direct franchise rollout in 2004 to over 50 locations and forecasts 2000 locations by 2008

Simple SoftwareTM enables NuMarkets Selling and Shipping Centers tools and processes to run a full ebay consignment business. Highlighted functionality includes Automated Image Capture, Bar Coded Inventory Management and warehousing, Production of Auction Listings, Autowritersm Knowledge base for automated script generation, batch listings for multi locations, automated PayPal extraction to order fulfillment, consigner sales reporting and payment, financial and accounting reporting, productivity management tools and Centralized Commerce Support ServicesSM.

About NuMarkets

Corporate headquarters and centralized commerce support services are located in Etowah TN. NuMarkets services help the public and business with a new way of selling items. Just bring in your items and NuMarkets does everything to quickly represent your item to the world market via the eBay venue. NuMarkets will collect payments from the buyer and ship the item (including large) all over the world. Fast, easy and convenient. NuMarkets has spent the past 22 months developing software and support services to build the NuMarkets franchise systems. NuMarkets locations will be sold via a franchise UFOC system. For more information call 423-263-5211 or email franchise@numarkets.com

NuMarkets is a trademark of NuMarkets LLC. All other product and company names are trademarks of their respective companies.

PR Contact: NuMarkets Kristine Whorton, 423-263-5211 pr@numarkets.com