Marisa,

Your post is great, it is extremely hard to be a 
real dealer now days, it cost so much to go to 
Japan, most dealers will need to sell item/cels 
they pick up in Japan, and make at least 
$1500~$1700 minimum to cover the 
traveling/hotel/food/transportation cost.

To make $1500~$1700, they will need to sell a lot 
cels to even break even, before taking in a dime, 
then the extra profit go towards the next trip
and cels in their personal collection.

People need to get real, the price is not what
they were 1,2, or even 6 months ago, the price is
just going up and up in Japan.

Not enough new animes been release is also the 
major factor, and many anime are using computer 
animation, and cels from older show are selling 
out, most of cels stores in Japan don't have 
much cels in stock any more.

Just fact