As a semi-retired collector myself, I haven't 
been buying or selling recently despite what 
appears IMO, a increase flux in attempted sales. 
However, I do visit the boards when time permits 
and I'd like to ask everyone about the current 
state of cels, literally. My questions to 
everyone are:

(1)People seem to be dumping more cels on auction 
sites nowadays, but IMO, the hyped anime frenzy 
seen in previous years does not even exist for 
any series (new and old). The resell prices seem 
relatively low and higher grade cels rarely 
appear anymore if ever. Heck there is one place 
(which shall not be named) that use to have some, 
but, has failed to updated their site with 
anything in the past five months!

So, for those of you who are selling a couple 
cels and particularly those of you who seem to be 
selling your ENTIRE collection (if you don't mind 
sharing), why now? 

(2)Now as we live in a time of war, IMO now more 
than ever, it seems cels are truly luxery items. 
Has the current socio-economic conditions in your 
part of the world in any way, (a)affected the way 
you purchase cels, AND (b)your outlook of cel 
collecting as a whole? Why and why not.

(3)If more animes are produced with CG and the 
use of traditional full cel animation is becoming 
nonexistent, where do you see the future of cel 
collecting in five years? How about ten years?

For those of you with children, do they notice 
the difference between cel and CG animation? As a 
cel parent, do you point out the differences to 
them?

(4)Lastly, I've made friends with various 
collectors over the years, but most decided to 
quit for financial and emotional reasons. 

For those of you who still actively collect, stop 
to look around your friends. Does it seem there 
are about the same amount of friends who started 
with you in this hobby or are the considerably 
less? For those that quit, do you know why? How 
long have you been in this hobby and what keeps 
you in it?

Thank you all for sharing and have a great day! 
^_^;;