Vehicle damage reports like CarFax are widely available on the Internet and make it easy to spot cars that have been suffered heavy flood damage, said Ricky Beggs, vice president and managingeditor of Black Book, a guide to the wholesale market for used car dealers.
"People don't watch television networks anymore, " said Steve Safran, senior vice president at Media 2.0 and managingeditor of lostremote.com, a blog about technology and the television industry.