Hi,

Thanks, I hadn't read that exchange, and it was 
very interesting. I think the person who made the 
final comment is probably going to be like me:

"So if someone could convince me that the cel had 
deep personal meaning for them, and it didn't for 
me, then I like to think I would be willing to 
sell or trade it."

That is my problem, I do want to have a cel that I 
love go to someone who really wants it, where on 
ebay it is less personal. In these cases (to Eric 
above) these were not people I knew, they just got 
me at the right time with the right words, if you 
know what I mean. I don't know if I want to put a 
"no sales or trade" on my page, but I guess I 
might have to in order to not be tempted to do 
something that I regret later. I know that if I 
accept an offer, then I was willing to let the cel 
go, even if I didn't realize it before. But if I 
need money so I go ahead and do it, I probably 
have unrealistic expectations of what the person 
is going to do with the cel, based on their words. 
That just is what is bad, if they were not saying 
they adore it, would never sell it, etc. I 
wouldn't hold them to that expectation and 
wouldn't have the hurt feelings. Hope that made 
sense. Maybe I just need to say what a lot of 
people say "I am only going to take offers if the 
amount of money is obscene". ;-) That way, I would 
know that they wouldn't get more for it than I 
did! LOL! Basically, it isn't the money as much as 
it is the idea that someone might be able to snow 
me so well that I believed them, when they were 
really trying to get the cel to sell for more 
money. That seems like an awful reason to try to 
buy cels from private collections, but I guess it 
does happen.  

>BTW, are you the same Kathleen with "The Many 
>Moods of Ryoko" gallery?

Yes. :-)
I probably should have made this thread 
annonomous, but I really did want people to 
respond with their personal feelings. I thought it 
was better to say who I was in order to make 
people feel more free to do the same. But, I was 
so shocked to see the cel on ebay that I did write 
the seller, and to their credit they did respond. 
They seemed truly apologetic, so I want to believe 
what they said is the truth. It just gets 
harder each time. But it is so strange that this 
keeps happening that I just want to know that this 
happens to other people and how they feel about 
it. :-)
Kathleen