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A brilliant freshman at SUNY Oswego wanted to sell something, but rather than go the usual routes like putting up a for sale sign, or placing an ad on the internet, she decided to try to selling an item using a more unorthodox approach. She put the item on Tinder. And, go figure, but it actually worked!
The student, named Aline, had deleted the dating app because she’s currently in a relationship, but she missed being able to fool around on Tinder when she was bored. So she decided to see if she could create a new profile, only this time use it to make a little money.
“[I thought] — how can I go on Tinder and not cheat on my boyfriend?” she told Buzzfeed. That’s when the lightning bolt struck her.
Recently, she was hanging out with her cousin when she had an idea for a new Tinder account. Instead of using it to find a date, she could use it to sell something. Her cousin graciously offered her a lamp she was trying to unload.
Creating a new profile with the profile name “Lamp,” her experiment was on.
Amazingly, it went SO well that the app ended up crashing her phone with all sorts of unusual responses, including, of course, some weird propositions.
https://twitter.com/AlineLaReine_/status/939952367423934466
Eventually, as you can see from her tweet, Aline did actually end up selling the lamp and in turn became an internet hero…
https://twitter.com/amccoyxo/status/940038351830204417
https://twitter.com/realKHughes/status/939991897099169792
https://twitter.com/slowcookt/status/940595136375021568
https://twitter.com/cuckhoe/status/939962645163184130
And the obligatory…
https://twitter.com/AdamVerran/status/940553791396397056
So did Aline stumble on to the future of dating? At least one person thinks so…
https://twitter.com/futurecheck/status/940252662808924160