I recently won a lot of two from him... they were 
from the same sequence as some I'd seen up for 
sale at a regular vendor site a month or two ago, 
although I can't remember if they're the same 
cels or not. Either way, if they were the same 
ones I'm thinking of, he took a loss for it.

But it raises the ethics question-- is there a 
difference between my favorite dealers in Japan, 
who buy a cel for 500 yen from the bargain bin of 
some store and then sell it to me for 1500 or 
4000 yen, and brixpix? Is there a difference 
between this and someone who comes to the board 
asking, "Who won such-and-such cel; let me know, 
and I'll give you $100 more than what you paid 
for it!"? Suppose the person caves, and sells off 
their recent acquisition. Isn't it their right? 
But brixpix doesn't even seem to be at that level-
-- looking at the opening bids, how many of them 
are $10 or less? $20 or less? ^_^

Yes, I'm sure that if I traded or sold one of my 
cels to a private individual, expecting it to go 
to a private collection, I would be very peeved 
to find it on the block the next day. But--- I no 
longer own that cel, and my interest in it 
stopped the moment I received payment, and sent 
off the cel in the mail to fulfil my part of the 
agreement.

There are a few cels I acquired a few months back 
on the spur of the moment, that I really don't 
care to keep. They were just bid on as an 
afterthought, and no one else ended up trying to 
outbid. But I hold onto them, just so it doesn't 
look like I'm reselling. ^_^ I'll get rid of them 
eventually, partly when the market's not so 
flooded, and partly out of respect for the person 
I bought them from. But if I wanted to sell them 
yesterday, nothing would have stopped me... 
because they're mine.

If everyone's collection was sacrosanct, there 
would be considerably slimmer pickings for all of 
us. While appearances are an individual thing-- 
is it bad taste to resell something the next day? 
the next week? the next month? wait a whole year?-
-- the point is, if you have ownership of an 
object, it's your property to do with as you 
please. Keep it. Sell it. Frame it. Book it. 
Stick it in a box. Give it away.

Ahhh, well. I just wanted to say a few words in 
his defense. :o) Yes, I understand where you're 
coming from if *your* cels are the ones being 
resold--- but if they've been sold, I'm assuming 
you haven't kept any vested legal interest in 
them, and he hasn't violated any terms of a 
contract; and calling someone a horrible person 
in a public forum for selling their private 
property could be viewed as libel.

-Cres