I think considering the intent of the seller's 
important. It's hazardous in the long run to 
support someone who through all the evidence is a 
speculator -- it'll only encourage them to 
continue. 

As for auctions -- people can be ripped off. They 
may do it to themselves, but it does happen. 
There would be no problem if everyone entering an 
auction knew about cel dealers or read this cel 
forum. As someone said, only a small percentage 
of the people on ebay do this. In other words, 
I'd agree with you, if everyone on ebay were 
informed consumers. I bet that if you should some 
of these people this site, they'd kick themselves 
for some of the prices they've paid in the past. 
Remember the Quatro cel? There wasn't anything 
extraordinary about it, but two people paid 
several hundred dollars for it. Cels of similar 
quality show up on Taro for less than a hundred. 
In the past someone even paid $200 for a 
Evangelion chroma cel up on ebay. Sometimes cels 
even drop in price. Remember when Duo used to go 
for $700? Now I'd say a good cel would fetch $200 
on ebay. Samething's happened to other Gundam 
Wing characters. Talk about volatile. 

Granted, you can't blame the seller for the 
situation, the people did it to themselves, but 
you can't say that these people weren't ripped 
off.