This is a very good question! Also, a very 
personal decision for many people. "Does everybody
have a price?" By extention: Does every cel have 
a price tag on it?

My answer is yes -- and this is the answer of 
someone who has *less than five times* resold cels
I intended to keep. (I've sold more than five 
cels, but the rest were lot remainders, freebies, 
or other cels I received incidental to ones I was 
purposefully buying.)

One thing I'd like to get out of the way first is 
that I absolutely **DO NOT** believe that someone 
wants something more simply because they're 
willing to pay more for it. People can be willing 
to pay more for something for no other reason 
than they're rolling in more money than they know 
what to do with. End of line.

BUT!! Only you know the personal value the cel in 
question has to you. Generally, what I pay for a 
given cel has little connection to how I feel 
about owning it. Several times in the past, I 
have been offered hideously obscene amounts for 
my absolute favorite cel of Larva and Garline. 
Three of those offers were not only multiple 
times the amount I paid, but were staggeringly 
more than I would have been willing to pay for 
the cel myself. Yet, I turned them all down.

So does that mean that cel is not for sale? Yes 
and no. It only means the amount I would have to 
be offered to actually sell it far exceeds it's
value. There's a joke about a man and lady in a 
fancy club. He asks her if she'd sleep with him 
for $1,000,000 and her answer is "sure!" if he is 
willing to pay it. He then asks if she'd sleep 
with him for $1. The lady glares at him, demanding
what kind of woman does he think she is? His 
reply? "We've already established that, now we're 
only haggling on the price." In a way, the cel is 
the same. Somewhere out there, there *is* a price 
for which personal circumstances, other interests,
or other commitments, wouldn't allow me to turn 
down the offer. Somewhere out there, there *is* a 
price tag on even my absolute favorite cel. But 
it's not worth anyone's time or money to try to 
find it. So for all intents and purposes, the cel 
might as well be considered as not for sale.

One of the big factors for me is that once I've 
paid for a cel, that is the end of the expense it 
costs me. Unless I decide to get it framed or 
restored, or otherwise do something to it, it 
costs me *nothing* to keep the cel. In a way, the 
enjoyment I get from it after that point is free 
to me -- I can look at it, touch it, or show it 
to someone else anytime I like without paying a 
cent. But if I sell that cel and want to be able 
to do those things again, then I need to buy 
another cel. That does cost -- not just money, 
but also time and effort to find another cel of a 
type in which I'm interested.

I can hear the first comments already: Yeah, but 
you're up on money if you sell it for more than 
you paid for it! This is true, but my nature is 
strange in that respect. Generally, it's much 
easier for me to turn away money I didn't have in 
the first place than it is for me to spend money 
I currently have. . . Thus why I'm so rarely even 
tempted to break my per-cel spending limit, and 
also why I almost never resell. That same nature 
keeps me from being interested in the lottery. 
Sure, I can't win if I never play. . . but I also 
haven't paid out money for a stack of worthless 
papers with numbers on them. ^_^

(Hmmm. Paying for a stack of worthless papers. As 
plastic collectors, maybe none of us should throw 
stones at that particular house of glass. ^_~~~)

In any case, this same type of theory appiles to 
anything in my collection, really. Each has it's 
own value to me, and if someone offered more than 
that, either a monetary offer or trade, then I 
would accept and the price tag on that particular 
piece could be considered found.

Please note this IS NOT an invitation for offers 
on my gallery. I don't like offers on my gallery 
and most see nothing but the delete key. However, 
two people *have* succeeded with offers in the 
past and despite my nickname, I don't bite. If 
someone is desperate for something I own, I can 
usually be persuaded to at least hear them out 
when I'm caught in the right mood. . . Which only 
more proves that everything has a price tag 
somewhere.

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac