Prices ~ Alts ~ and ??

[Katrin Bracken]

(02-27-2013 03:28 PM)deerylou Resident Wrote:  I know we've had plenty of topics like this before (most which are gone now), but this is a free market and it's up to only you to determine what you wish to sell your kitties for, there is no "right" or "wrong" price, and no one should sway you into selling any differently than how you wish. And for every price you put on your kitty, there's almost always someone willing to go lower, whether by mistake or not. A lot of breeders also factor in time into their prices as plenty of well-traited kitties didn't take a few, mere breeds to get the outcome kitty and in fact took months, and that's okay too.

It sounds like a prospective buyer who really, really wanted some of your beautiful kitties but she just can't currently afford what you value your kitties as but is still trying to purchase them by bringing up another person's price in the past, whether true or not, and by putting down the prices you marked your kitties as so you'll give into their ideal price range. Perhaps she was trying to haggle the price in this odd manner? I've seen this done before. Either way, good luck to them too and hopefully in the future they can learn to respect that it's up to each of us and our free will to determine the prices and opening bids of our kitties, and no one really has any say in that matter. Don't let this person bring you down!

(And yes, I've gotten this before but on the other end of the spectrum, "Your open bids are evil and awful for the community as a whole, you should open as high as you can get away with! You're a demon to our market!" clad with the knight in shining armor nobly justifying their derogatory declaration with "I'm saving the market and you're killing it, fiend!" comments. And to that I say open your kitties at that price you find ideal and let mine be at what I enjoy offering most - whether starting as an open bid to give everyone an equal opportunity at the start or not. This is 100% a free market based on a hobby we all share and enjoy partaking in, and everyone should be allowed to price their kitties at what they want just as buyers can freely choose which kitties they wish to purchase with their own reasonings, and these decisions should ideally be respected no matter if an individual agrees or disagrees. )

Keep doing what you've been doing, because at the end of the day you should be content with your decisions and ultimately, you can never satisfy every person in this wonderful community. Hugs!

OH yes......Totally! xoxox