Cels Forum

I don't want to enter in that discussion but I don't
realy understand your argument about re-selling cheaper
than you bought them. I mean, you buy them from a dealer,
try to resell them higher. If that's work, fine. If
that doesn't, you lower your price because you never
intended to keep the cel in the first place.

I don't say it's good or bad but I don't understand how
you try to turn that into a service you are doing to
other people...

Cheers,
Yann Stettler

PS: As for people who mentioned that all dealers are
just doing that but with more or less middlemen,
I don't agree. Dealers that get cels from studio or
get them directly from Japan are providing something
that dealers who bought on-line to resell don't :
They bring cels on the market that customers wouldn't
have had access to. Don't get wrong idee : just going
to Japan and visiting AWS isn't enough to find many of the
cels that we dealers do. It often involve contacts and
friends in the japanese cels community. Quite a lot of
cels are simply not for sale to public and are sold/traded
"behind the counter".

By the way, even for other goods, there isn't many
companies that are both producing items and doing
direct sale. Most produce items and it's other
companies that buy and resell to end-user.
That's what dealers going to Japan do.

Dealers buying from an on-line shop to resell right
after are like end-user buying some hardware from
a shop to try reselling it at a higher price.
Would you buy from such people knowing that you can
get the same things cheapest directly from the shop ?
No.

The only differance with  cels is that they are
one of a kind. So if you want a specific cel that
was bought from a retail shop to be resold at a higher
price, you have to shut-up, grit your teeth and show
the banknotes.