First off, this is just my opinion, and I am not 
posting this in order to speak for Yann. He can 
do that just fine by himself.

Anime Link needs to change its business 
practices. I have been in this hobby for a short 
time, a little over two years, but I have not 
seen a more backwards operation being run in any 
other hobby in my life. While I understand that 
dealers are in the business to make a profit, I 
think it is sick to charge a collector anywhere 
from 300-1000% markup on a cel purchase. While I 
realize that collectors decide what they will and 
will not buy, many collectors are new to this 
hobby and don't know the going rate on a 
particular series or scene. And yes, each series 
and scene DOES have a going rate. It may not be 
firm enough to build a price guide around, but it 
is an implied price range. For the two series I 
mainly collect, I put a collectors guide up on my 
website. I did not do this for my personal benfit 
or to draw visitors. I don't get paid for people 
visiting my site. I did it because I don't want 
new collectors getting screwed by unscrupulous 
dealers on the net. 

In the past month, I have seen cels from series 
that I collect being sold for astounding prices, 
mostly on Anime Link. I believe that it is mostly 
due to the fact that Anime Link has brainwashed 
people into believing that their cels are in some 
way superior to the rest of the internet in terms 
of quality and service. Recently, Anime Link sold 
three Outlaw Star cels under the pretense of 
having matching production backgrounds. A 
matching production background is very rare for 
this series, as I have seen less than a dozen in 
two years. After checking up on this, I found 
that the backgrounds were not matching, and that 
at least two of them were not from Outlaw Star(I 
could not verify the third). After contacting 
Rick about this, I received no reply and he went 
ahead and sold the cels for, in my opinion, 2-3 
times what they were worth. That is false 
advertising, a form of fraud. When you knowingly 
sell something under the guise of it having a 
matching BG and don't follow through, it is 
fraud. I know people on this board have dealt 
with Anime Link and feel that they have had a 
good experience with them, and that is fine. All 
I am doing here is stating my opinion on their 
sales tactics and practices. I don't care if a 
dream cel shows up on Anime Link, I will not buy 
it from them. That is a promise. I will not 
financially support any organization if I don't 
agree with how they do business. That is why I 
don't shop at Wal-Mart, but that's a story for 
another day.