It's nice when people are financially comfortable 
enough to resell items at their cost, (and 
AWESOME when a pal does you a favor like that, 
passing along a cel at cost) but it's not at all 
wrong for a seller to ask more for it if he/she 
wants or needs to. I've bought a cel plenty of 
times and I decided I was "not as much in love" 
with it as I thought I was going to be, (some 
things just look different in person) or I needed 
fast money, and had to sacrifice. Sometimes, the 
price has to be enough to make it *worth* selling, 
too. I've had plenty of cels like that, I waited 
till I got the offer I wanted before I sold. We 
need to get over the notion that profit is wrong. 
Free, flourishing economies are built on the 
ability to make a profit. Remember, every person 
in the chain has made a profit on that cel, 
chances are. If you can get a 33% profit on a cel 
you decide to sell, why is that wrong? I consider 
it an achievement if the buyer and seller are both 
happy. If a buyer dreads/hates/has bad feelings 
about the price, he/she should just pass. I can 
think of one sequence from a show that I have 3 
cels from - all very similar - one cost $50, one 
was $35, and I paid $90 for the third. The $35 
one, weirdly enough, is the nicest one. I knew the 
$90 cel seller was "gouging" a bit, but it was his 
right- I had a choice to buy, or pass it up. I 
wanted it, I bought it. I bet the seller made 
50%-75% or more profit. I don't care- it was his 
right to ask it, it was his cel. I wanted it bad 
enough. Now I have it, I'm happy. Cest la vie!
Blair
and for every cel I have profited on, it's just 
that much more money I have pumped back into the 
market of cel selling (I buy much more than I 
sell) which helps keep the hobby alive, and the 
dealers doing well so they attempt to get more 
cels.