How do you get most of your cels?

pastatdude · Post by **pastatdude** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:43 am

I was looking through my collection today and updating my cel spreadsheet, and was curious to find out the breakdown of where I get my cels.

Most of my cels have been purchased from other collectors, whether they were trying to cel them or if I simply emailed an inquiry and ended up buying something. This actually surprised me, I thought I got most of my cels through auctions.

So what about the rest of you? (If you see an option that I should add, just post about it and I'll add it.)

Elot · Post by **Elot** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:31 am

Most of my cels came from cel dealers (especially if im the lucky first visitor)

I think i have no luck when it cames to offering cels from another collector, either its overpriced or getting rejected, so i dont usually get cels i really want

But my best collections comes from Anime-beta members, i wont say its im lucky to gain from others financial difficulty but im very happy to get the chance to owned great cels

Cheers
Elot

Keys · Post by **Keys** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:55 am

Most of my cels came from dealers. However, Yahoo Japan is certainly making a movement in the past few years on my spread sheet. It might overtake soon, especially with the multi-cel sets I keep running into on there.

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:56 am

Right now the majority of my cels have come from dealer sites. However, this has been changing a lot and I suspect by the start of next year, I'll be able to say that more than 50% have come from auction sites, primarily YJ. Its a lot easier to just click and buy something from a dealer, but it has been getting increasingly more difficult for me to find something I like that way, so I've been spending a lot more time on YJ searching.

tkngrl · Post by **tkngrl** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 10:48 am

*sigh*.. It's been a long time since I've bought a cel

(I think January was the last time I've had the pleasure?)

Anyway, at the beginning I used to get most of my cels from American dealers and ebay/YJ. Now I primarily get them from Japanese dealers and YJ. I wish I had better luck trading because it would help out my wallet a bit, but most of my attempts have failed ^^; I've only had one trade that was successful

~sherry

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Startyde · Post by **Startyde** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:27 am

For me, it's split right down the middle between dealers and auctions...one month I'll get like 10 cels from various dealers, then the next month a lot of 10 will pop up on YHJ, etc etc...

Dragon_gal · Post by **Dragon_gal** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:01 pm

Definitely an auction cel collector. My Celga packages have been pretty big recently!

Gonzai · Post by **Gonzai** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:07 pm

YHJ auctions all the way. Still get quite a few from dealers, and every once in awhile one off eBay. But YHJ is where I get the bulk of them.

Bevhippy · Post by **Bevhippy** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:13 pm

YHJ for the most part and a couple here or there from ebay

Startyde · Post by **Startyde** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:16 pm

Dragon_gal wrote:Definitely an auction cel collector. My Celga packages have been pretty big recently!

Same here...the guys at Celga are my life savers

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Mon Oct 27, 2003 12:42 pm

At this point 50% of my purchases are from cel dealers....
(although that's only three purchases)... so the statistics are a bit warped.

Sakon · Post by **Sakon** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 1:55 pm

The last two years all I have bought cels from are E-Bay and Conventions (I guess that's considered Cel Dealers). I wish I could use a deputy service and Mandarake - but I dislike Paypal and putting in a credit card

Garrett

Marauder · Post by **Marauder** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 2:00 pm

I'd say that out of all the cels I've owned, I acquired most of them through auction. Most of the cels I've gotten from auction though, I have ended up selling. Right now, my collection is pretty balanced:

6 from stores (mostly Anime-Taro)
3 from private trades
6 from auctions

I have fewer from private trades, but the value of my trades cels is far more than the others combined

Edit: Comment to Sakon: you should use Sato's service (not to bag Celga--I've used them too)! Sato's a great guy, and you can pay with money orders--very easy. I've never had any problems.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 2:32 pm

The first four years I collected cels I got my cels:

80% from Cel Dealers
10% from Auctions (eBay and Yahoo Japan)
10% from Private sellers and Conventions

In the last two years I've gotten my cels:

83% from Yahoo Japan Auctions
12% from Cel Dealers (two cel dealers mainly)
3% from eBay Auctions
2% from Bidders Auctions

rallihir · Post by **rallihir** » Mon Oct 27, 2003 2:38 pm

Definitely from auctions (mostly YHJ). It's been harder to find the cels I want from dealers except from personal sale.

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