Hello ^_^

I wish, I truly do, that I didn't need to use 
eBay. But there are lots of reasons that eBay is 
a good thing. First of all, I have only about 5 
times (in the entire time I have been collecting 
cels) been able to sell cels directly on this 
Forum. The same is true with our sales website, 
it just doesn't get the eyeballs that eBay gets. 
And when you are desperate for money to pay for 
something, having eBay around to "promote" the 
item for you really helps. There are a lot of cel 
collectors that don't read the forums, and don't 
shop at direct sale sites, they only use eBay. 
When I can't sell a cel here or on the JACML or 
on my own site, I usually end up putting it on 
eBay so one of those "ebay only" people will buy 
it. There is no other way for me to get those 
people's attention :( and having cels sit on 
Aino.com for months without selling doesn't do me 
any good and just proves that direct sale isn't 
as obvious as eBay.

The weird thing about eBay too is that I will 
offer a cel up for sale directly for months (for 
example, I had a nice HYD cel that I offered for 
$150). NO ONE took me up on it. I put it up on 
eBay a few weeks back, and it went for $305.00. 
Why? I really don't know. It's happened to me 
with a lot of cels O_o. In fact, I've even posted 
them up here and been harassed that the price was 
too much that I was asking direct sale, and then 
I would have it go for twice as much on eBay. All 
I can guess is that the people on the forum are a 
lot more frugal than the people on eBay ^_^;

Finally, the other good thing about eBay is that 
if the person doesn't pay, you can leave them bad 
comments, etc. They are making a legal contract 
to pay you.

So, I don't hate eBay. I actually like eBay a 
lot. However, they have ways that you can 
pay "smarter" instead of paying top dollar. And, 
even though it may upset people, it's still nice 
to have an out if your $750 Please Save My Earth 
cel is selling for $35.00 with 5 minutes to go 
^_^;; and for only $0.35 :)

misa