My friend loves to cololect Gundam Wing cels, and
she'd always keep an eye on GW cels on auction.
This morning, she tell me there's a fan cel maker
in e-bay making her very upset. That person did
buy a production cel and make a fake one,selling
it on auction within a month!! She felt like that
guy turned fan cel drawing into a dirty business,
just copying from the original production one and
sold at large quantity. The idea of fan cel is
just to make a cel with inmages by your own idea,
not just copying, right?
I'd checked that guy's e-bay history, and surely
he's doing what my friend is angrying with.
This one is what he won in e-bay on early
February:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&category=1532&item=3205125188
And, well, at the begining of March, he'd copy
the cel and sell the fan cel on e-bay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItem&item=3211693604&category=11117
So, what's the point for he to buy a cel? Just
for copying and make profit?! I'm sure he will
sell the original production cel later at high
price, after he'd make enough money from the fan
cels created with the image of the original cel!
Although I personally collect some fan cels(they
all were done by good fan cel artist, they never
copy, they draw the sketch with the pose they
created, never copy form original one!!) I can't
help and agree that that jerk in question would
make cel collectors upset.
Do the customers of him knowing that they are
providing funds for that guy to buy the original
arts for copying?! Do you know you PAY HIM TO
AGAINST YOURSELF IN CEL COLLECTING?? He bid up
the price of the cels you deadly want and sell
the fan cels to you for profit!! Can you stand
with this?!
I suggest people don't buy any fan cel from him,
stop him from gaining funds on such dirty
business!
Do anyone here know how to stop him selling fan
cel (those just copying from original production
work) on e-bay? I wanna his dirty business to
disappear from any auction site!!
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