Hi Blueheaven ^-^,

How are you? Fine I hope.

There is no venting. Not meant to be personal. 
Your cel find has nothing to do with it.  

You were lucky and that is a good thing. I am 
happy for you. What else can I say?

 We all have our sources and we use them to 
the best of our ablities.  Some people use 
their time in different ways. Shortcuts are one 
of them. Maximizing your time by collecting 
information withou using your own resources 
in a minimum amount of time and effort is 
effective for the person that decides to go the 
"lazy" route. Nothing at all that can be done 
about it. So why fret?

And  giving away URL`s is not a bad thing, in 
and of itself, if you are helping someone find a 
cel on an auction that is perhaps not  popular 
from my point of view, to that limited extent.  E-
mailing them would probably be better, but 
beyond that what could anyone do? 

>"when someone recently posted 
looking for Grave of the Fireflies cels, I 
replied to the post not with a URL, but simply 
telling them that there were some on YJ."< 

If you decided to tell them it`s on Yahoo, what 
is the big difference? You might as well have 
given them the URL.  It`s just spiltting hairs.

I totally agree with Yann`s comments. "Not 
flooding the board with posts"

Hypothetically, If someone posted a URL to a 
cel that I was hoping to keep low and secret, I 
would be disappointed,  you are right. But,  I 
would I would also know that I am 
participating in a public auction and reading 
public cel boards, and in "the public" those 
things just happen. This is the life! There is no 
one to strike out in anger at. 

 I try to be mature enough to deal with the 
consequences without blaming someone for 
posting information in a public place. I would 
be wasting my time in cyberspace in any case.  
Shouting out into the dark void like an 
imbecile. I may have lost some money or even 
the cel and disappointed, but not angry 
because someone else, informed someone 
else of what I know too. It is a ridiculous 
argument in my point of view...that is the greed 
that I meant. Not monetary greed--information 
hoarding...its a joke in a public place.

If this were some private place with rules, and 
regulations, and dues, then I could clearly 
understand your point of view on the issue. 
But otherwise, it seems to me like a losing 
battle. That is because we do not have power 
to control the situation no matter how upset or 
annoyed that we may become.

E