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Just when I thought the new console launch antics couldn’t get any more ridiculous, Alexi and I noticed women of ebay posing provocatively — presumably to boost sales. How did this come about? In an effort to limit fraudulent listings, ebay is requiring PS3 and Wii sellers to snap photos of receipts, user names, and consoles… and a few budding entrepreneurs must have recalled their Advertising 101 ‘sex sells‘ lesson. Apparently trading in your self respect doesn’t net much: According to my unscientific analysis, nudity and/or cleavage doesn’t have any discernible impact on bidding.
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17 Responses for "Console Wars & The Ladies of eBay"
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That’s hilarious
this is horrible, see women can do this, if i had a nude picture of me being censored by a playstation 3 it would be brought down fast, god forbid i put my dong on top of a console to boost sales
That’s cause you could use that method to sell an ipod shuffle ted
Though the way people have been going nuts over the ps3 I don’t think they will be paying attention to the racks, just the packs.
… and for that, Ted, I am thankful.
I know why ‘ladies of the night’ don’t increase the sales… Because most nerds were not looking at the women. Most were just drooling at the PS3 or Wii.
just when i thought ebay couldn’t get any stupider…
maybe we can bid for Ps3 and get the model next to it for free?
This isn’t as good as people selling reflective objects and ‘accidentally’ catching themselves in the nude taking the picture.
I think people do that just to see what they can sneak onto eBay.
“grab one while you can”. I don’t think they were referring to PS3s
I can only presume that this is to distract people as they click ‘bid now’ on an empty PS3 box.
Hahhahaha, I thought ebay had a filter for that kinda stuff.
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Seriously, that is crazy! Hahahah.. Really, I guess I can understand in the listings people will click on the listing more likely, but this is still kinda funny. Interesting idea I guess.
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