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Do people selling stuff on eBay assume that the potential buyer is an idiot?

Apparently you can make people buy anything by making the description in a huge flourescent font. Apparently you can also persuade people that a computer is really good by writing descriptions like:

- Pentium 166Mhz (SUPER FAST!!!!)
- GIGANTIC 64MB RAM!!!! WOW!!
- HUGE 2GB Hard Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Usually by this point I've stopped reading. But you have to wonder don't you? If I really knew little enough about computers to be sucked in by that sort of nonsense, I really wouldn't be looking on eBay for a machine, I'd be in PC World.

And as for the "VAT to be added to final price" lot....

Anyway, enough ranting!