Hi, me. I'm new here too. Well, okay, not *real* 
new, I've been lurking for awhile now, um, 
probably since January. Anyway, getting to the 
point...

This is a tough issue. As a cel collector, I hate
 to see this happen. A similar fate befell an 
incredible Faye Valentine cel that was on Ebay a 
few months ago. I attempted to win the thing with 
a $200 some odd bid (a very large amount for me 
to bid on a cel, but I wanted it bad!), but I was
 way out of my league as the cel sold for over 
$600. No problem--until I found out later through 
this forum that this cel was originally sold on 
Taro for significantly less. It would seem that 
the seller bought it strictly for resale, and not 
for the love of the cel.

Sure, I felt bummed, but was this person wrong 
for seizing an opportunity? For getting there 
first? For accepting a $600 bid? No, I don't 
think so. In any hobby, there are going to be 
opportunists (that sounds like a dirty word, but 
I don't mean it to be), and then there's going to
 be those selfless collectors who'll give you 
their right arm. Most of us are probably 
somewhere in between. ^_^ I think once a person 
buys a cel, they have every right to do as they 
wish with it. They just better not complain about 
it when someone else buys *their* wish list cel 
for resale.  That would be hypocritical...

--melissann, hoping that there's room for another 
Melissa around here!

P.S. Has anyone seen the current bid for that 
Treize cel--Yikes! @_@