By: Chuck Miller
Having Fun, Uncategorized

Miley Cyrus’ eBay camera solved – it wasn’t her camera

Gee… who do you think called this one correctly?

Yeah, that might have been me.

So here’s the backstory.  A week or so ago, a tweet from Miley Cyrus’ Twitter account advertised an old camera of hers on eBay.  The camera, a Nikon N80 film camera, started out with a reasonable $20 opening bid before soaring into the stratosphere at nearly $100,000.

At the time, I thought that the camera auction was pumped up with the help of a hacked Twitter account.

Now I find out that this was the case.

If I have the information correct, a photographer that works with Miley Cyrus, Vijat Mohindra, posted several links to the eBay auction from his own Twitter account.

advertised that it was his camera, and even posted several posts on his twitter account @vij_photo noting his sale of the camera before eBay pulled the listing. He used her account to drum up the bidding.

//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsYeps. It’s the same language and the same link to the eBay auction. And not one minute later…

 

That’s the same retweet that was later sent from Miley Cyrus’ Twitter account.

This wasn’t a “flash sale” (no pun intended) to help get a Miley Cyrus artifact to a lucky fan.  This was a base attempt to use Miley Cyrus’ fame to help sell someone else’s product.

Naturally, eBay doesn’t take kindly to such things.  The auction was pulled.  So whoever hoped to get a Nikon N80 for the princely sum of over $100,000… well, I guess you’ll just have to pay the market value of about $100 for a decent unit.

Just another case of live and learn, I guess.

Now if you all will excuse me… I have a few minutes left to bid on this Canon that was once owned by Lynda Carter.  Just a few minutes left in the auction.

Yeah, right.  Like I would buy anything that was branded Canon. 🙂