I have mixed feelings about auctions as well as auctioneers and how many we have now. I personally won't go to some auctions because of the style of the auctioneer (you have the good with the not so fair way to do it) as well as the people that are selling the kitty. It's more a personal style, I simply won't buy a kitty from certain people even if it's one I really want and willing to pay what they ask.
I think the market and auctions have a lot to do with each other. The market drives auctions and with so many new people the variety is in demand. However with the recent market trend (way up) and the influx of so many kitty's and people buying them along with trying to sell what they personally don't want at this time of year has all come to a head so to speak and kinda created a recession. It usually happens in any economy that grows to fast. We can get through and ride it out if we stick it out and work together to do so. The key now will to keep the people that have found KittyCatS to stay with it.
The variety is awesome and I try to make it to quite a few during the week, just to browse or because I can go and have fun or a seller has a kitty I want. Like Kay I too have some I can't make simply because of the time frame and RL interrupts SL. One of these days I'm going to have to cancel RL to make a Late Nacht auction
too.
This is my 2 cents worth as well and mainly my opinion so I hope I didn't offend to many to badly.