Yeah, I have no problem that "Ryvius" re-selling
the cels that bought from Animate. Let's face
the fact, most cel dealers on the internet bought
their cels from various anime stores and other
sources for re-selling too. For example,
anime-cel.com go to Anime World Star, Mandarake,
Animate, Zero and Commit...etc in Japan all the
time, buy the cels there, and re-sell them on its
website for at least double or triple the original
prices. For them, it's good that these guys live
in Japan though.
About Ryvius on EBay, yeah, I know who he is since
he often appears at Animate store every Saturday
morning. Yes, that is the time when the Animate
staffs put up the new cels for sale. Since he
knows the Animate staffs very well, he often gets
the first choice picking them. The Animate staffs
know he's putting their cels for re-selling on
EBay, but it's nothing that they can do. By the
way, it's quite hard to find cels in the Animate
branches in Japan, somehow, this LA branch got
quite a lot of cels for sale. |