Candid Photography - Priceless

There are times when new technology bites back.

eBay Photo Taken

There you are about to sell your latest designer 'ASOS yellow skater dress size 10' on eBay ....

 

..... So while your in your bedroom, you whip out the old phone camera, and hanging the dress on the bedroom door next to a mirror, you take a good snap to post on eBay. You then post it up and wait for the 'kerching' of money arriving in to your bank account .....  

 

Only with growing horror do you realise that there's a slight problem, so you cancel the sale. But don't realise that the image can still be seen, and which you only find out about, when it starts getting Twittered around the world, eventually ending up on a national radio web site, where it goes viral ..... your laughing friends tell you ..... eventually (after all that's what friends are for ... eventually 😂).

Desperately you try to get on the website to remove the sale photo, and eventually you manage to get it taken down ..... red in face, and heart in your mouth, you hope that no one else you know has really noticed ..... especially not your mum and dad.

eBay Page No Longer Available

 
Oops, way too late. You really should have worn your knickers, or checked the mirror view before you posted it on eBay ....... 

 

Priceless .....

.... not really revealing (given the camera standard, and the masking I've applied to this close up to spare her further blushes), but Aimi Jones, from Oxfordshire, careless, very careless ..... and Priceless.

 

NB: She apparently later relisted it with this photo ....

Aimi Jones Relisted The Dress

..... and it apparently went for £153, 911 ($240,950) ....

 

Stupid eBay Bids

 

 

.... although others have claimed £100,500 ... thus proving that any publicity is good publicity. But of course no one will have actually paid that amount, and she will likely have been lucky to get her sellers fee back.