Interesting comments Kevy - but a few distinctions. Print industry is much different than park merchandise. For one thing, the park is the only sorce of the merchandise (yeah I know about Character Warehouse, but that's a different issue alltogether). Printing on the other hand is a commodity, where you as a broker have a distinct value added of knowing all the providers and who can do what for how much - if you're doing your job right, you're saving your clients money.
The ethics around publishing personal information is about privacy not commerce. Lot's of business try to take advantage of customer ignorance, I don't see a problem of educating them. Additionally, I would see no problem in posting personal information, especially if someone was alluding to being someone or somewhere that he or she wasn't.
But I also agree that LP or MS needed post stuff that could drive away sales. Caveat emptor sill reigns supreme. Likewise I don't think sites like MouseSavers are unethical either.
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