Yeah, you know, most of my cels have actually 
come from making offers to galleries.  Most of 
the time I've had good experiences with it.  I 
just hate when people ignore you.  There's no 
reason for that, it's rude.  All you have to do 
is decline, not even politely if you dont want 
to.  I think you at least owe it to the person to 
not ignore them >:(.

I've recently had one very very bad happening 
with that though.  I wont name names to protect 
the identities of said parties, even though they 
dont really deserve it in my eyes after what I 
went through.  I had this person who I considered 
sort of a friend. We didnt talk much, but they 
didnt really respond to my emails, no matter how 
much I tried to talk as friends do. We have the 
same favorite anime character, and the same 
ideals about this character.  I really tried my 
best to get to know said person, but I was never 
able to get through 9_9.  No good deed goes 
unpunished.  I did them some small favors and 
such.  This person had a lot of cels that I just 
adored, and I asked them so many times that if 
they ever sold them, to PLEASE tell me, Id give 
them whatever they wanted for them.  I asked 
repeatedly, I mean, really.  Then, after about 
half a year....what do I find?  The cel I wanted 
most from this person goes on Ebay.  There's more 
to it, but I wont get into it cause I dont want 
to give away too much.  Anyways, I was very hurt 
by this...I thought I had done some really nice 
things for this person.  It would have been 
different had she/he offered it to a better 
friend, or something like that, but it went to 
Ebay......I repeat..Ebay.  I was so heartbroken 
over losing that cel, AND for thinking this 
person would keep their word to me.  Oh well, for 
every gem there's a stone.  Most of the time 
people are cool with offers, I've had very few 
bad experiences with it...unfortunately the bad 
times stick out in my mind like a dagger.  Im 
still stinging from that last one.....