Greed?  How about maximizing profits?  I believe 
that is what a successful business is all about.  
The bottom line on "jacking up prices" is that the 
cels will sell or they won't.  If someone is 
willing to pay a high price, then so be it.  If 
ALL of the cels are overpriced, then you're 
right---the dealer will eventually go out of 
business.

I'm kinda chuckling at your argument that cels 
should be cheaper since they are luxury items.  It 
was always my understanding that it WAS luxury 
items that commanded high prices.  ;-)

Heh.  Using the Lorax is flawed logic.  It would 
be more applicable if you compared the cels 
themselves to the Truffula trees.  Except---the 
key difference would be that trees are a renewable 
resource, whereas cels are not.  The moral of the 
Lorax was not to exceed a resource's ability to 
regenerate itself.  If you want to make the 
comparison, then think of the trees as the last of 
their generation, no matter what.  If they will 
not reproduce, and will eventually be consumed 
anyway, what should the smart landowner do?  Sell 
the trees at a fraction of their value, so as not 
to be "greedy"?  Or should they charge whatever 
the market will bear, since once they are gone, 
they are gone?

:-)

I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I love when 
this argument comes up (which it seems to with 
some regularity).  I guess it's because collecting 
art is such an emotional hobby.  But when I see 
people saying that cels shouldn't cost so much 
(even when people are still willing to pay those 
prices) it makes me scratch my head.  Just because 
we wish prices were lower doesn't make a dealer 
wrong for charging whatever they want.  I'll be 
the first to call a dealer's prices high, but I 
won't say they have any moral obligation to lower 
them---I'll simply predict that they won't sell at 
those prices.

For the record, I would NEVER start a cel 
dealership.  I couldn't deal with the headache of 
pricing cels!  ;-D

JP