Balinese, and the secondary market. Can we *avoid* having a round 2 of this?

[anna Acanthus]

I believe the real damage was done by the flood of new traits that came with the halloweens, followed by still too many at Xmas as well. I still don't understand why this happened.
Up until this the traits were released at a steady, manageable rhythm.
Anyhow, the team have listened and have clearly slowed down the rate now. I don't see the fact that a few new recessive furs were released is causing any more damage to the market. The Balis have been around for 6 months now so it's quite normal for the prices of basic ones to have dropped to where they are now, the well traited ones will be selling for much more for a good while i think.
As for releasing more dominant traits, they soon get snubbed as soon as their place in the pecking order is more or less established.
The majority of KC owners want new recessive traits and often so it's normal to try to keep dynamising the market in this way.

Personally i too am old school and would like time to continue with long term projects but i've rather given up as this isn't a realistic approach. Anyhow the months that i consecrated to his gave me some good solid stock which is very useful and still sells too.
Unfortunately dumb luck does rule this game, i mean starting with the box you buy, then the roll of the randoms at birth, the gender etc ... and also i'm sure there's a few here who wouldn't be so anti if they were the ones who happened to get lucky and be the first to get a new fur.
I do get annoyed with the team with some of the decisions they make, but on the other hand there are so many "hanged if you do, hanged if you don't " situations, and i'm sure they closely follow the secondary market, after all it's only common sense.
I'd like to say also that the fact of having way too many auctions per week is causing plenty of damage to the market in itself. I won't go into the reasons as this ought to be pretty obvious.