Cels Forum

Okay, so you know that someone has matched an incorrect background with a
cel.  Other than the fact they you know that particular person has done
it, what makes it very different from someone doing it higher up in the
chain? (like with the Sailormoon and VoH cels)  While I would be
definitely annoyed (just like when a collector splits up the pencil sketch
and cel to sell separately), I think it might be a bit early to go public.
After all, buyers are used to buying from dealers who may not know if the
background is nonmatching, it's just the way it came.  It may be just a one
time incident.

It's irksmome to see a collector sell a cel with a background they've
previouslly admitted was non-matching, without mentioning it when it gets
to eBay.  How's that different from purposely putting a non-matching
background?  How's that different from selling if they didn't know it was
non-matching?  How's this different from the person cropping the image of
the cel they're selling, lying about the price that they got it for, not
mentioning it's faults clearly?

I fear people using the "buyer responsible" argument to repeatedly do this
though to their buyers.  Frankly, I'm tired of seeing mismatching laser   
copy backgrounds with many cels that I want to buy, and a pricetag that   
reflects a real matching one or a climbing auction price.  Mismatching the
backgrounds seems a little too dishonest to continuously do, just as many
of the things I have mentioned above.  I suppose if the person
consistantly does this perhaps someone should say something.  After all, I
would not want to be buying from a highly dishonest seller, who knows what
else they may do or what else they might be hiding?

I guess the best thing to do, is in the future, email the seller and
politely point it out that they're not mentioning it.  Perhaps it slipped
their mind this one time.  Then, if it becomes obvious they're trying to
mislead their buyers, you may want to mention it more publically.

Keys
updates my own gallery recently...