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Re: Yes, what's the difference... (Sun Jan 14 00:24:14 2001 )
wndrkn
http://members.fortunecity.com/wndrkn/index1.html
wndrkn@javanet.com

Ok, everybody calm down a bit before we start a 
little war here ^_^;;

I wanted to reply to you earlier evilminion 
(whose minion are you? *grin*) and make some 
suggestions.

First: getting a fair price I think is perfectly 
fine. I don't think anybody would argue with 
that. If you wanted to get some suggestions on 
pricing, you might want to contact those people 
who seem to have a lot of those similar cels in 
their galleries. I've done this plenty of times 
and I've found most are very forthcoming in their 
advice. I'd offer to help but I know nothing 
about Tenchi or Ranma cels and don't keep an eye 
out on the pricing close enough to say anything 
useful. And you could also look at all the dealer 
sites and see what they offer for similar cels. 
Keep in mind that since you have so many cels 
from a set -- often of the same character -- the 
prices probably can't be that terribly high since 
there will be a temporary glut of those cels on 
the market. 

Second: the question of reselling which is a hot 
topic here. And perhaps this is to answer 
CrzyDemona's statement -- and I'm not necessarily 
speaking for oion since she probably will answer 
for herself -- but reselling and hoping for a 
higher price changes the market. It's the hope of 
collectors, like myself, that we can stop the 
sometimes inevitable inflating of cel prices. For 
that reason, we would ideally want (and hopefully 
practice ourselves) to sell at cost unless the 
market has wildly fluctuated since we bought the 
cels. That way, we don't inflate the prices for a 
series we like to collect. It's very self-
interested but one I point out to both of you 
that the practice of selling cels to buy more 
cels will possibly lead to you buying higher 
priced cels of that series in the future (and 
therefore creating a very bad cycle for everybody 
involved). 

But of course you can do anything you want with 
your cels. Remember though that some people won't 
buy from you because of the constant reselling. 
Again, evilminion, this isn't directed toward you 
and I fully support the idea of selling off part 
of a set if you only wanted one or two. If you 
want to recoup your money =quickly=, then take 
oion's advice and price them based on what you 
paid (including the extra fees/shipping for 
dealing with Japan). If you want to make some 
money on the deal then you are probably going to 
have to sit on them for a while and parcel them 
out on ebay a bit at a time --even then, you 
might not make a lot.

I'm not even going to touch the difference 
between a dealer and a reseller right now. This 
message is WAY too long for that discussion.

Wendy (who's been trying to update her gallery 
all night but is left only to curse fortunecity)



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