We have a few Tasuki at $50 and $60, fairly
decent ones with visible eyes and large images.
It is important to understand, Fushigi Yuugi
cels, used to cost 3800yen or less each several
years ago in Japan, for all TV cels, regardless
of character or quality (Hotohori, Nuriko), does
not matter, all 3800 or less.
Many dealers were able to stock up several years
ago at that price, these cels used to be in
everywhere in Japan, that is 1 of the reason why
they are able to offer that type of price
occassionally, remember two years ago, there were
far more active dealers compare to just a very
few active dealers now, everyone used to update
at least once every week, almost everyone had
hand full of FY cels.
We never had the chance to stock up like that, we
did not start dealing cels until 2 year later,
whatever we have now, we had to pay pretty penny,
especially for the higher quality ones, we still
have access to extremely high qualtiy TV FY cels,
but the cost is also extremely high, and it is a
lot of hard work (it is not like we sit in front
of computer and send a few e-mails or walk around
cel shops in Japan and buy hand full of FY cels,
not that simple, other wise every dealer be
listing tons) quite discouraging and sometimes
make me wonder, how much longer can we keep up.
There were several Tasuki and Tamahome TV cels I
had sold on our site 1 or 2 year ago for around
$90 (all cel images are still available on our
server), I have just recently pick up cels from
same sequence at 15000yen each in Japan, I sure
every dealer go through similar experience.
Not everyone understand, that is why we only list
FY cels occassionally, and deal mostly privately
for the high quality FY TV cels, and have been
thinking of making the FY section as a passward
protected area.
Sincerely,
animegame
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