Cel Prices

Okay this is going to be a rant...100%!

I got up earlier this morning to bid on a auction from jp (non sailor moon!). I had lost a couple auction from SM recently so I had the cash to spend elsewhere and decided it was time to get back into my other series a little bit.

I decided already that my max bid was going to be around $400 since that seemed about fair to win the cel... or so I thought. When I checked the auction this morning the auction was at 70,000 yen!! Talk about a surprise! I like the cel and all, but that was pushing it.

Then I remembered the series I was trying to collect again from and why I stopped in the first place. People from this series bid enormous amounts of money for reason I will never understand.

First off the cel was an A2 cel, not A1key or A2END, just A2. I have paid close to 70,000 yen for an A1END cel. But that cel will never be seen again on auction. This cel will probably show up again in a month or so once other sellers see what it ended at. And because this series is known for having a lot of sequence mates around, I am still in awe that someone would spend that much!

In the last month alone, I have seen 2 different cels with 2 sequence mates on jp, and I am almost sure I've seen this one before too.

So I guess the good news is that this bidder will be out of the running next time around, and I might get it cheaper...

Just a rant.
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