Hi Anon,
A preferred customer is something that I can 
understand, I mean as long as the dealer doesnt 
say yes I can have the cel and then emails me 
telling me he "forgot" and already promised it to 
someone else(someone he liked MORE), I dont 
really have a problem with it.
  Sometimes its a nice thing to have someone tell 
you that they remember you as a collector and 
they know that your looking for a certain type of 
cel they might have.
  It shows that they are interested in getting 
your business. Id buy a lot more cels from the 
dealer that showed that kind of service. It would 
almost guarentee my future patronage. 
 Most people wont show preference ALL the time to 
one certain collector.  How could they ever make 
any money? If you NEVER get any good cels, you 
would just stop going to their site after a while.
So I guess it all works out in the end.

Pale