(10-27-2013 09:50 AM)Liriel Garnet Wrote: (10-26-2013 12:07 PM)dreampoetz Resident Wrote: I actuallu got a phantasm for 4k. That's the lowest I have seen it but I would never pay that again. I think people just want to try and get rich so they price really high. Not fair at all.
And yet if someone is willing to pay that price, how's that unfair? This is a market-driven economy just like any other. A cat is worth what you or someone else is willing to pay for it, bottom line. I've had 9t cats with 'decent' traits go for amazing amounts simply because i took the time to breed out an especially nice-looking combination of traits. I've had other 9t cats with one or two really recessives but not so nice combos go for far less.
Bottom line, it's all about what catches someone's eye.
I'd like to add that way back in 2011, the first panic sales when sellers started to undercut each other, some of us refused to follow and we maintained our prices as far as possible, and still do.
For the greater majority this certainly wasn't out of greed, but to counter a drastic slump.
If we hadn't done so there would probably be not much of a market at all at the present.
Also i would rather pay a decent price for a kitty that i know has taken the breeder months and months of brain wracking and expense to produce, rather than a box with more or less the same traits where i know that the seller has just grabbed a pair on the cheap and selling at 500L$ to make a few fast bucks.
Can you really get 6k for a spook baby?
