Cels Forum

1)  In one of his postings, he wrote:

"They should at least write that it's a copy
and not the original. ... Although they point out that
these are not original production cels, they seemed
to have deliberately buried that in their text. 
That bothers me."

Not an original cel:  We made it clear in our ad that
this is a "Hand-Painted copy of the gorgeous portrait
that was used for the cover."  We also said "This is
not an original production cel."  Given that the sales
text was less than 100 words in length, it is hard to
imagine that we "deliberately buried" this latter notice.  

Based on Mr. Stettler's suggestion, we have also added
a phrase to the ad indicating that "this is not a hanken
cel," in case anyone thought it may be.

2)  Mr. Stettler commented:

IMHO, an auction like this is bad for two reasons :
1) People may buy the cel thinking that it's the original
   (and so worth way more than a mere copy).
2) Even if stated clearly that it's a copy, nothing prevent
   the person buying it to try to resell it later as
   an original.

re his #1:  We believe our ad makes the non-original
nature of this cel very clear. To repeat, we were clear
that this is "hand-painted copy ... This is not an
original production cel."   

re his #2:  It is true that unscrupulous people exist,
but Mr. Stettler's logic would prevent the sale of
any non-original art on ebay, since someone might try
to resell it later as an original.   
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