It will sound strange, but there is an amount of 
patience? energy? that seems to be required for 
certain types of buying. I've bought cels almost 
every way imaginable, and the type of buying that 
is easiest is buying something posted to a 
website or for sale in a store/at a con. One 
order to send, you either get it or you don't, 
end of line.

Then you get into auctions. . . Those seem to 
tire me out after a while if I have to deal with 
too many of them. There's just a lot more effort 
expended. Even if you get no competition for the 
cel in question, you watch the auction, try to 
guess your chance of winning, decide on how much 
and when to bid, then deal with a seller who may 
or may not have a streamlined process for 
completing the transaction. But that said, I have 
to have a good number of things I want show up on 
auction before I get tired of auctions. . .

And finally. . . offers. I hate offers from the 
beginning, so it doesn't take too much to sap 
away my interest in participating. "Frusterating" 
is the PERFECT word for "offers", even when you 
know the series in question. When told things 
are "for offers", I frequently pass by even cels 
that I would have readily bought for good amounts 
of money -- without ever bothering to e-mail the 
potential seller. Most cels aren't worth 
being "for offers" and I'll look elsewhere before 
dragging through an offer. So to sellers: If you 
want to sell to me and people like me, the best 
way to do it is to put a price on the cels!

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac