The Hypocrisy Weblog

DVRDude @ Digg wrote the following: “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 photographs of receipts, user names, and consoles… So a few entrepreneurs must have recalled their Advertising 101 ’sex sells’ lesson. I took tons of screen grabs!”

A valid observation, yes indeed – what “DVRDude” didn’t observe was to be prepared to handle the visitor numbers a digg would bring. Great video-clip, thanks for that – but a “less great” idea to embed the video-clip you uploaded to YouTube on a webserver that couldn’t handle the load

Fact remains: These eBay auctions really show how the times have changed. (Conclusion: I don’t remember when half-naked girls were used for selling second hand items) It doesn’t take much time / marketing-resources to figure out what sells and what does not. In my personal curiosity I wonder if the eBay-auctions with half-naked ladies got higher end-bids than the ones without these bells n’ whistles (that’s a double pun btw;)).

As the song goes: “Mad World”