Cels Forum

Our company sells cels, and reproductions. We are
scrupulously honest in our dealings (as can be seen by
our positive customer feedback), and clearly indicate
which are originals, and which are not.  If an unscrupulous
reseller cheats a customer by telling him a reproduction
is an original, then that customer has recourse under law:
it's called consumer fraud.  However, this is a crime
committed by the reseller, not the source of the reseller's
reproduction. The fact that a criminal may use a reproduction
to fool a customer is no justification to prohibit reproductions.

However, after seeing Mr. Stettler's comments, we agree that
our comment that this cel is "100134650952nique. It is hand painted ..."
may not be clearly understood by some. Our intention was to
clarify that by virtue of being a hand-painted cel, each cel
is unique and no two cels are the same, as opposed to machine
reproductions.  

We have revised the  auction copy by adding the following statement:

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This is not an original production cel, this is not a
"Hanken" cel (original cel painted for commercial use)
the quality is FAR SUPERIOR to a production cel! Since
it is painted by hand, it is unique, however other copies
of the same image may be available. Since they are all separately
hand drawn and painted, there will be minute differences. 
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We agree that this may make it clearer to some readers,
and thank Mr. Stettler for making us realize that not all
readers might understand the original version.

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