Dave Plowman (News) wrote
whisky-dave wrote

How did I know what,

That those currently using ebay to buy a TV don't
know about back projection TVs or the differnce
between CRT, plasma, LCD, TFT, and anything else.

Given the sellers always say what they are,

They don’t always.

I'd say you're wrong.

More fool you. Even if what you said is true, and it
isn't, that says nothing about how many of the BUYERS
understand what the less common technologys are
about or even know how to use wikipedia to find out.

And it would be some idiot who
bought a CRT set expecting an LCD.

That happens too, particularly when the fool of a seller
was too stupid to include a photo from the side.

And generally, people bright enough to use Ebay ain't idiots.

Generally is completely irrelevant, what matters is whether
there are some who don’t know what a rear projection TV
is, and who know so little about technology that they don’t
even realise that need to check what the terms that they
haven't come across before mean because they realise that
even reading the wikipedia article doesn’t help them at all
let alone even know that that is a good place to look.