Hi Jason

The site and service you provided is really 
great, I will probably use it to build my first 
on line gallery soon.

but the idea of creating a price guide is 
somewhat unrealistic in my opinion.

>Rubberslug will act as a neutral third party to 
>note both the rarity and relative price of cels 
>(like Wizard, but with very broad ranges), 

cels are not mass produced like baseball cards or 
comic books, it is impossible to created a price 
guide that is 100% unbiased, not everyone is 
willing to pay the same price for the same cel.

the idea of creating a price guide for cels like 
beckett for baseball cards or wizard for comic 
books is good, but this is the wrong kind of 
hobby for that.

then there is cel price in Japan vs cel price in 
other countries.

as for cel availability, how can you determine 
this, there are certain dealers in Japan who have 
huge chunk of the supply from the certain shows, 
or collectors who have bought most of the supply 
of older shows.

>start building a database of cel 
>availability for every show that we collect

how many collectors are going to participate? 
assuming everyone on cel web ring joins 300   
1000 new members, I doubt you will get more than 
1000 members, 100 is more realistic, how can you 
build a data base that is big enough to determine 
the availability of cels for every show that we 
collect?

Check out my on line gallery soon