The Australian mum who famously sold her “lippy” daughter’s One Direction concert tickets has been named. Bek Piscioneri didn’t expect that her eBay post, in which she was selling tickets for the British boyband’s Sydney concert to punish her daughter and her friends, would become a media sensation worldwide.

The NSW mother caught the attention of the Netizens when she wrote a provocative post on the auction company’s local site, intending to shame and punish her unnamed daughter by selling her tickets to the show.

According to her post, she decided to sell the passes to teach her child about respect. She bought four tickets to the British group’s show in Sydney on October 25 for her daughter and her friends, but when they lied about being on a sleepover to hang out at an older guy’s house, the mum revoked the gifts.

Her angry tirade on the products’ description text prompted online surfers to read and share her post, with some commending her for disciplining her wayward daughter.

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The mum remained unnamed then, only being known as her eBay username “tsfe.” But now, she agreed to be unmasked, telling Fairfax Media her story.

As it turned out, her daughter did not act “lippy” at all. Ms Piscioneri just created a character as a “witty campaign” to recover what she had spent on the tickets.

“It was a bit of deliberation and observing my 10-year-old daughter’s behaviour and behaviour to her peers that I decided not to encourage a boy-crazy pre-teen,” she told Fairfax Media, saying she bought four $80 show tickets for her daughter.

“While she likes her music she’s not at the stage where she is kissing posters and wanting doona covers and doing all that. I reflected on that a little bit and decided that I didn’t want to push on her tween years more than necessary. I’d like her to be growing up at her own rate.”

She initially didn’t tell her family about the tickets, only mentioning them to her husband Matt when she decided to sell them.

“I thought about it and asked myself: who goes on eBay to buy tickets? I thought mothers of teens,” Ms Piscioneri continued.

“What do they have in common? We all get frustrated with our kids. I created a character. I was a figment of my imagination. Obviously a lot of people found something in that ad which they could connect to… The amount of emails I’ve had of support has been astronomical. Of 2500 emails I have opened out of about 4000, I have received only five negative comments.”

Ms Piscioneri’s post had reached tens of thousands of dollars in bids before she stopped the auction and closed her eBay account.

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