Well we already have heard quite a bit on offers, 
so I guess I will mention my favorite offer.

This occurred about 2 years ago when I received a 
nice e-mail from someone telling me how 
priveledged I should be to know that they were 
willing to pay 100 dollars for all of my Nausicaa 
cels and because they were so generous, they 
would be willing to pay 50 dollars for all of my 
Gunnm cels. Once I got my jaw back in my mouth, I 
politely let them know the cels were marked NFS 
(I still had that marking on the cels, which I 
subsequently changed to Don't Ask because way too 
many people could not figure out that NFS 
translates to not for sale) and furthermore that 
they really should look around first at the 
current cel prices before making offers to 
people. I got back an e-mail saying that they 
knew the cel prices and how dare I not accept 
their more than fair offer. I sent back an e-mail 
saying the answer was still no and that I did not 
want to continue this conversation. After they 
sent two more e-mails which I will not describe, 
I blocked their e-mail account. 

So the morale of this whole storie is that there 
are still crazy people out there, who no matter 
what you say or do, they will take insult. In 
this casse, it was someone making an offer, but 
in other cases it will be the person receiving 
the offer. The big thing to remember is this is a 
request for a transaction, not a personal 
evaluation of your buying or selling habbits. 
More importantly, all of us need to remember that 
no means no and people are not omniscient and 
cannot know what you paid for a cel.

One other comment I will make is that I, 
personally, unless I am planning to sell a cel or 
it is up for sale, do not know what I want for 
it. That is why I demand a person make an offer. 
Also, making an offer requires a commitment and 
pretty much every offer I have accepted that 
transaction has gone through. The few times I set 
a price, the person agreed and then I never heard 
back from them again. With the little free time I 
have, this sort of action completely infuriates 
me and I feel insulted which is the main reason I 
don't even try to figure what I want for a cel 
when I am asked. Lastly, I can't speak for 
others, but every time I have received a off the 
wall high offer, I have cut it down to what I 
consider a reasonable level.  This has probably 
happened 20 or 30 times in the 7 years I have 
been collecting and I really wish people would 
try to be more fair in this regard. Of course I 
am not going to hold my breath waiting for this 
to happen and honestly since it is personal 
choice, it does not really matter, but I can 
still hope.

Catch you later,
Marcus