While "talking" to someone, I just happened to
find back an old article writen on the Anime Web
Turnpike, long ago (in a far away galaxy).

So for all those who think that finding cels now 
is difficult and for old timer who want to 
remember Ye Good Old Time, here is the Anime 
Turnpike "Last Exit Before Toll" from December 97.

> Cel retailers are almost as easy to find on the
> Web as VHS retailers. What's difficult to find
> are good sites. Most cel retailers offer a very
> small selection, often 30 cels or less. Keep in
> mind that's their entire inventory, 30
> individual cels. With such a small selection,
> you'll probably have to do quite a bit of
> browsing before you find a cel that catches your
> eye. With that in mind, I'm doing something
> I've never done before: recommending a ring. The
> Anime Cel Ring collects pages that sell anime
> cels. 
>
> Of the sites I visited, the cel site with by far
> and away the largest inventory was Animanga
> Services. The site offers around 350 cels for
> sale. Prices range from $19 to $320, with most
> cels falling in the $30 to $70 range. A nice
> feature of this site is the text index of all
> available cels. This index lists the price
> of each cel, giving you a chance to select cels
> by price before requesting more information. One
> of the things I find annoying about most cel
> retailing sites is that you are required to
> click on each individual cel title or thumbnail
> image in order to get the price. If you have a
> set amount of money you wish to spend on cels,
> that kind of shopping can take forever. 
> Thankfully, Animanga saves you the time. You'll
> need that time, because the site is maddeningly
> slow.
>
> Celmates goes one better on the issue of cel
> prices. They group their cels by price. The
> "Beginners" page lists cels at $30 and under.
> Cels on the "Collectors" page go for $30 to
> $75, while the "Elite" cels are priced at over
> $75.

My, my, 350 cels in stock ! What an amazing number 
-laugh- ("maddeningly slow" -grumble- -grumble- I
would like to see them fit a site like Animanga
on a 64Kbps line!)

Cheers,
Yann Stettler