I agree, and I think this problem has 2 sides, one is US, buyers and sellers.
Many breeders are willing to pay a fortune for a kitty with a new trait with all genesis other traits just because it has something new, and they ignore a very good kitty with a great combination.
For sellers, many rush selling their kitties with new traits before they add good other traits to them for low prices, they don't mind dropping prices and destroying the market just to sell fast but I don't blame them much though because they are afraid that prices would drop more if they wait because a new release is always coming soon and that's the other side of the problem.
The other side is the KC company, I believe they released tooooooo many new traits at once lately and I'm very against that, I see some new traits go on bidboards for 500L$, because there are too many other new traits so not all of them are valued, so what chance old traits have?
I don't think we need all these new traits at once, we like to have a variety but why to not have a break between new releases to work on them? Sellers rush drooping prices mainly because they know another release is coming, and that what causes the market problem in my opinion.
Before I wake up from the shock of the 4 new furs, 2 eyes, 3 ears and a tail discovered in a very short time I got another shock when 5 Fancies were discovered in few days. I don't think we needed 5 new Fancies in a week.
That's plus the new tigers that were released not long after Halloween, and there is also winter Kitties coming in few days, We are running in a RACE to keep up with all that.
As I said somewhere in the forum before, I dunno where to spend my money, new traits, Jewels or old good combos or on feeding more kitties, I can't afford all of that at once so I get frustrated at times and I don't buy any, and I'm pretty sure many have the same feeling and that's not good for the company itself because some give up the whole breeding thing.
As a buyer I prefer a good combination, it is almost impossible to build the 9 traits from scratch, I tried that as a challenge when I first joined KC but I ended nowhere and wasted much time and money, so I very value a good combination that helps my project, and I don't go crazy buying kitties with no potential just because they have a new trait. And I believe I'm not the only one at all.
And from my personal experience as a seller, a good effort is still appreciated at least by some, my first new trait I got from a starter and probably last
, was the Foxie Auburn, but I never sold any non-traited ones, and I'm still very stubborn about dropping their prices, because I work on them and improve them, so I VALUE them and the price paid on them is like an appreciation to my work in my opinion, I sold very few because I keep many (I keep 9 live Foxies at the moment
) which are involved in projects but I earned well from the few ones I sold because some still appreciate a good combination, Of course I don't sell now at the same price when the Foxie was very new but I still try to not underprice them.
It is not that I'm greedy, it is not about the money, in fact If I sell more Foxies for lower prices instead of keeping them to work on them I'd make more money but I want my Foxies to be valued and appreciated because I value them myself and I never mind taking them back home if they don't sell. And I would do the same with any new trait or a good project I'm working on -All my projects are unfinished though
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I'm not saying that I do better than others at all, I'm still learning. I'm just saying, if you do an effort and value the result yourself, others will, well at lest some will.
For KC company, Please give us breaks between new releases, I like new releases and they are so exciting but give us time to enjoy breeding them and our other projects.
Sorry for the long reply, but in this topic especially I needed to vent
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New Releases Hurting the Breeders
