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Need A Pen With A Hidden Microphone? 'Cheaters' TV Show Opens Online Spy Shop (TV Squad)
When you have a hit TV show, there's a lot of money to be made in ancilliary
products, such as t-shirts, notebooks, stickers or mousepads.
But when your show is "Cheaters," a syndicated reality series that
investigates cheating spouses and records the often-violent confrontations
that ensue, your options are limited.
No matter that the show is in season 12, its sordid subjectmatter makes it
hard to market, say, a "Cheaters" spaghetti sauce, or designer purfume.
The show did participate in a "No Cheaters" dating website for a while, but
now series creator Bobby Goldstein thinks he's found a better product for his
corporate brand: A website that sells spy goods.
It's called Cheaters Spy Shop, and sells all sorts of surveillance gear for
suspicious minds, including recovery sticks that can pull up anything
currently on the iPhone and even recover deleted information; mobile software
that will send a person all texts and pictures being sent, web history, call
logs, and GPS location every 30 minutes; and even motion-activated hidden
cameras that record any movement and activity in high resolution.
"We also sell audio recorders that look like pens," Allen Watson, president of
the Cheaters Spy Shop, told ...