Missed on Hallmark? Sold on eBay.(Through The Wire)(Hallmark Channel)(Internet auction)

Multichannel News, May, 2004 by Haugsted, Linda

Weird things crop up all the time on the Internet auction site eBay. The Wire has wondered before just who would post such ephemera as transcripts from the annual Television Critics Association meetings with stars. We're even more curious as to who would buy such things. But the trend continues, and has now taken a more alarming bend.

Some of the cyber-vendors are posting press kits for sale, including the VHS or DVD copies of the programs the kits are meant to promote. Where's lack Valenti when you need him? Networks--like Motion Picture Association of America chief Valenti's movie studios--are concerned about the trend, because they anticipate an aftermarket for their original fare when they release the DVDs, on their own schedule, after...

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