Cels Forum

I want to add a few things :

1) If you can't read japanese, don't be surprised if the
   item end-up not being what you wanted : Some cels
   are promotional (not production), others are made by
   people in cels painting school and finaly some are
   not cels at all but print...

2) Even with a traduction software, you may have problem
   for paiement : Traduction software can't realy translate
   an address, name or bank name.

3) Most people will want that you pay by _bank transfer_.
   They won't accept IPMO. So expect your bank to charge
   you a lot for the transfer if you are in USA.
   Also, people will most of the time provide you with
   minimal bank/account information. It may not even be
   realy accurate as the spelling of the name may vary.
   That mean that if your bank doesn't want to show some
   willingness in doing international wire transfer,
   you may end-up with your money who-know-where...

4) And naturaly, as someone already mentioned, many
   seller will simply refuse to send to a foreign
   country.

5) If you bid, win and manage to get the transaction done,
   don't expect to be able to complain or do anything in
   case of problem (whatever the item is not what you
   were thinking, it was damaged during the shipping...)
   if you don't read/write japanese.

Oh, and the auctions there seems a little weird : I
some some cels re-posted at least 9 times without
any explaination. (and there was bids on those cels).
I saw seller suddenly biding on their own cel to change
the minimal sale price if it wasn't higher enough at
the end of the auction.
I saw cels removed from auction without any explaination.

And finaly, I saw Yahoo program doing very nice mess :
When accessing from one computer, you saw a differant
winner than when accessing from another computer. For
the same item... (and no it's not a question of cache).
I saw some cels changing from prices and going up and
down without anyone biding on it... (from day to day,
you never know what the price will be).

Well, don't come and complain that you weren't warned...

Cheers,
Yann Stettler