Kitty pricing!

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(09-29-2017 06:28 AM)Illuminatra Resident Wrote:  Do our current prices reflect a market that once was OR do they represent a market that is now?

Wow twelves pages! Certainly a hot topic for KittyCatS breeders. I agree, the market is always in flux. What was hot yesterday may not be hot today. I appreciate having the web markets to do my research before I price a cat. That tends to work better for live cats but not always for boxes. My boxed cats don't sell well unless they happen to be a Mega or a Teacup. I can price a boxed cat according to market value at the time I set it out, but by the time I revisit the cat it will be outlandishly priced according to the most recent entries on the web market.

Some of the formulas here for pricing cats seem way to simplistic. They do not take in account the cats age, or whether a particular trait even looks good on the cat being sold. I also consider how common the traits or the combination of traits are in the marketplace. Are the cats traits solid? Is the cat live or boxed? Is the cat at 100% and ready to breed, or will will the buyer have to wait two weeks to breed it? There are so many variables that can affect how I choose to price a cat. It is to tedious to make a list for even that is in flux. I try to take in to account current market prices before I price a cat, but if the cat sits for long periods of time and isn't selling maybe that is a sign the market has changed for those traits? A cat is really only worth what someone is willing pay for it. It makes sense to hang on to the collectible cats and wait for the right buyer, but my experience indicates that cats bred for traits seem to go down in value over time not up.

(01-19-2016 10:21 AM)SavageR0SE Resident Wrote:  But do NOT have the audacity to tell me what I should charge or how I should value my cats. How arrogant of you to try! My cats are worth what I think they are worth and priced according to that, to how much work and lindens I put into making them, how lucky or unlucky I was while breeding them, how I FEEL about a particular trait, also to how badly I need the lindens at the time, and EVEN sometimes as to who is buying the cat! I say what they are priced at and No one has the right to say for me and MINE. Sorry if that sounds harsh. You do not have a clue as to all the factors I use for my pricing!

On top of that, start telling me what to charge for my KittyCats and where does it end? Tell me when and where to sell them? What traits I am allowed to breed? Maybe we should be like the farmers and You pay me NOT to breed to keep the prices higher! lol You get the drift! How far does this "regulation" go???

I enjoy the KittyCatS community aspect of breeding, and for that reason I do factor issues of community when pricing cats, but ultimately I agree with SavageRose on this issue.