Cels Forum

Personally I think you will find that most dealers will 
cease to provide any information on a cel for fear of
being accused of offering a false background.

It seems that if you provide no detail information and say that
you will provide more information or details about a cel
if someone writes to you about it, you are ok and provided
no false advertising.

Sadly a new collector wouldn't know what to ask to begin with
and would say that they saw a cel with a nice background for
a good price and buy it.

The dealer can not be accused of putting up false advertising and
will defend themselves by saying if the buyer asked they
would have told them. They just assumed that buyer knew what
they were getting because they didn't ask.

The fact is that there is no way that dealers can know 100%
if the background is true or not on all of the cels they have
up.  Some of them are getting them from a supplier that they
just have to trust.  Some of the dealers are great sources of information,
but they have real lives too and can not watch every show
and know every scene and know if every cel they are selling
is with the right background or not.

If I have a cel with a background from a series that I've not
seen every scene from and I bought it from a dealer I trusted
who bought it from a shop they trusted and I turn around and
sell it, will I be accused of trying to make money off of it
because it has a background if a true fan of the show knows
it is not orginial and I didn't?

I think we are heading to witch hunts now and I find that
very sad.  This should be a hobby and not a witch hunt.

We should support the better dealers and not accuse them.