If it really bothers you, just shop around -- 
sequences do get split up. That's the beauty of 
the free market, there are other places you can 
go. 

Strange that someone would argue that Rick has 
the right to set whatever price he wants for a 
cel, and yet derride people for buying things off 
of Yahoo Japan -- it seems a little hypocritical. 
He's free to do whatever he wants with his 
merchandise (agree with you entirely on this 
matter), but we're not free to shop whereever we 
choose to?    

To add to the debate, I read an interesting 
article, which argued that the father of the free 
market system, Adam Smith, was against setting 
prices to what the market will bear. Take this as 
you will. 

Having said the above, I'd also like to say that 
Rick does have some lovely cels. When you go 
flipping through web sites, some nice cels can be 
attributed to him. If you go through the forum, 
this holds true as well. One good thing about his 
prices, is that they scare off speculators and 
the cash goes to fund other cel expeditions. 
Wouldn't you rather have such profits go to the 
dealers then some bozo with internet access and 
an ebay account?      

(I wonder if anyone will want to pummel me to 
death with their cel book because of what I said. 
Hmm. . . .  Probably not, this is so far along, I 
doubt anyone will read it.)