Maybe they are "cheap touts" then.

Yes it is very easy to setup a basic "presence" on the internet and start trying to sell stuff on the side, especially by being cheap bastards by trying to do it on free internet sites and forums.

However the internet is such a vast and so easily accessible source of information, that it is far more beneficial to use it than pouring through printed newsletter hunt reports, magazine articles, magazine adverts, phoning numerous outfitters/agents and then lots and lots of references.

Still takes some work to shift the chaff from the grain but not as much work as it used to.