Welllll

I would never never start an auction that high no 
matter what I paid for the darn thing. Isn't that 
what reserves are for...? Also, think of the eBay 
fees you get slapped with when you start it that 
high.

As much as I hate paying $200.00 for a cel that 
someone paid much less for, I have done it in the 
past. I paid $350.00 for a cel I know the person 
got for $50.00, but I ~really~ wanted the cel and 
I was glad to have the opportunity to get it no 
matter how much I had to pay for it.

Auctioning is a tricky subject. Are you or are 
you not a rat for putting stuff up on eBay or 
whatever to try and make money? Welll...

This has come up for me with doujinshi too. I 
used to try to post doujinshi up on my site and 
have people just buy it. The problem is that it's 
a VERY in-demand item and the same darn people 
keep getting the stuff every single time, and 
then some of them were turning around and putting 
it up on eBay and making tons of money on it 
(this was happening with cels too -_-). SO, to 
give others a chance, I just throw it up on ebay 
and let people who want it duke it out. Yes, it 
makes me get a lot of money for something I 
didn't pay that much for (I must admit, this 
really helps me out for money to spend on my cel 
collection ^_^;;;) but then again I paid to fly 
to Japan, went and hand-picked these things out, 
and then made them available. Why should someone 
else make a huge profit on it when I was the one 
who went to all the trouble?

I tend to be nice about it though... if a friend 
REALLY wants the item, I try to accomodate them 
and we make bargin. If someone has a trade for 
something I want, I cancel the auction and we do 
the trade (even if if the auction is going for 
tons of money). However, if a cel means a lot to 
me (or I paid a lot for it) I'm not going to 
undersell the cel.

The people I hate most on eBay (and who I 
consider to be the rats) are the ones who are 
buying stuff for the sole purpose of selling on 
eBay, and so they go to Taro or something and buy 
like 1000 cels and then systematically put them 
up on eBay. They didn't go to Japan and try to 
get stuff, they aren't selling a personal cel 
from their collection, they are just messing with 
the system. This makes Taro's prices go up (for 
the same reason why I started auctioning my own 
doujinshi, because why should someone else be 
making the bucks?!) These people usually aren't 
collectors :P they are in it only for the $

anyway, just my two (NON anonymous) cents.
Hopefully I don't get flames -_-#
misa

p.s. look at my new heeero cel isn't he HOT?!?!?! 
drool drool