And then they go over here and gloat so happily 
over their newest and greatest cels...

Hey, I have nothing against you collectors 
showing off, but it really just makes me feel 
worse...

... I'm really frustrated that seemingly every 
single cel dealer update with the best cels (and 
at reasonable prices) when I'm sleeping while 
folks on the East Coast get a 3-hour jump (or a 2-
hour jump for CST people) on collectors like me 
on the West Coast.  And those updates I have been 
able to catch on time really have been pretty 
mediocre.

And this seems to have been dragging on for the 
past several months.

Maybe you don't believe me, but that's how I feel.

For the sake of argument (without flaming) here's 
a voluntary poll:

Excluding auctions, how many of you who have been 
successful in ordering really great cels actually 
live on the West Coast?  If so, how many of you 
didn't have to pay pretty average to high prices 
for those cels?  I'm suspecting the answer to be 
few or none.

I just need to throw my feelings out there, 
because it seems that by the time I catch a good 
cel update, the cels I would have wanted are 
already on hold and sometimes even someone here 
is already raving about getting it.

It might not be intentional on the parts of the 
cel dealers, but functional discrimination is 
still discrimination, in my view.

I don't expect anyone to respond to this, at 
least in a constructive way that will actually 
address the issue, but I do hope those who do 
respond will try their best to do so instead of 
just reacting emotionally like I am.