Forgive me for the anonymous post, but I don't 
feel comfortable giving my name in the context of 
this message, but I really do want people's 
opinions of the subject.

The posts above in the "Don't you just HATE" 
thread really concern me. I buy cels on Yahoo 
Japan and elsewhere, and do resell some of them on 
Ebay from time to time. 
I love buying cels. I love to get them and hold 
them in my hand. Sometimes I buy groups of cels to 
get just one cel that I really wanted. It isn't 
the cheapest way to go, but if 'your' cel is in 
that group, you want them all. Sometimes sellers 
put two cels in one group, sometimes a lot more.  
In this case I always say to myself "Well, I can 
sell this one on ebay and make back some of the 
money".
When the cels get here, then it is a question of 
if I can let the other cel(s) go or not...but that 
is another story! :-)

I don't have unlimited funds like so many people 
on this forum seem to have. I have to sell 
something to buy something new, so I try to only 
keep the ones I just can't part with. I assume 
someone else out there would want the ones I am 
selling more than me, so I feel right about 
selling them. But now all of a sudden, I feel like 
the scum of the earth for buying a cel when I am 
planning to sell it, even if that was the only way 
I could get the cel I wanted. 

I saw the auctions that Kenshinlvr is concerned 
about. I also saw the original auctions on Yahoo 
Japan. Those were from two groups of cels iirc, 
and I think the total was over 20 cels all 
together. I would not have kept them all if I had 
won them! I wouldn't have thought I had to! But 
the way this seller is being trashed, without 
anyone even knowing if it is a dealer who hoped he 
could make a bit of money on them (is this bad?), 
or if they are a collector who didn't want to keep 
every cel in the group (is this bad?), is very 
disheartening. It makes me not want to sell my 
cels that I don't want to keep, because I don't 
want my name on this forum as a person who is 
greedy or needs to be punished by God. (I know 
that was a joke, but ouch!)

I have some cels that I will never sell, and 
others that I really should sell, because I don't 
love them as much as the others and can make back 
some money to buy another cel. It is the thrill of 
finding it, and getting it. And if I couldn't sell 
some of them, my hobby is over. I really want to 
know if it is such a bad thing.

 I have never been chastized for selling any of my 
cels, but now I wonder if it is just a matter of 
time. I don't ask higher prices, just what I paid 
for them, and if I get one bid, then I am happy to 
have that money back to use again. If I get a 
profit, that is great. Am I so different than you 
guys? Is it a perception of a certain type of 
person, one who buys and sells to make a profit, 
but is not in what you feel is the "cel dealer" 
catagory that people attack? Are you angry at 
dealers who buy on Yahoo Japan because you feel 
that the only place that is legitimate to buy from 
is a cel shop in Japan? What about people who sell 
occasionally to get back "cel money" or sell the 
cels they feel are not the ones they love the 
most once they have them? 

I just would really be interested in your 
comments. I want to know where the lines are drawn 
in this hobby, and how they are defined. I am sure 
that there are a lot of us who would be interested 
to know what is NOT resented, because I know I am 
not alone in looking at the hobby as a constantly 
changing collection, with the ability to sell the 
ones we don't want anymore, or never wanted, as a 
way to keep being able to continue collecting. At 
least I don't think I am alone!