‘DoubleDare’ Wrote:The value of any object is what one is willing to pay for it. Period.
I agree. Absolutely. It’s all about supply and demand.
‘DoubleDare’ Wrote:The reason no one wants to pay for them is because they are not even valued by the makers and breeders of the damned things.
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I don't care if you want to pay 22k for a cat. I do care that you can't fork out 600l for a cat that cost me 2 to 3000 to produce at the end of the day.
I disagree. The makers value them, but they aren’t buying other cats because they already have that cat, or they are already working on that cat. Or they are already spending 2 to 3000L to produce their own cat.
Supply and Demand.
Let us be clear. There is a gross oversupply of cats on the grid.
GROSS. OVERSUPPLY. OF CATS.
(That nobody is buying. Which leads to desperation and firesales.)
Price fixing
will not change the supply of cats on the grid.
Rather than institute price controls - which have many problems - I would urge KittyCats! to tackle the issue from the back end of the market - the menagerie end.
Get rid of the supply of cats on the grid. Sweeten the menagerie WAY up.
Right now, I take 150L to be approximate cost for a box (without milk and etc.). Menagerie pays, what?, 20L, 30L? Of course people would rather do firesales at 100L which is -50 of cost, than menagerie which is -120L or so of cost. That cost has to be added onto the price of a cat which will sell for people to break even. And people know that isn’t working out too well.
I would urge 2 things:
•Raise the price given for turning in a menagerie kitty. How much? I don’t know. I know KittyCats doesn’t want to subsidize cat food purchases in cattery, but they may need to do more to make the market thrive.
•Instead of having so many LE collectibles with new traits on the front end, have LE collectibles (without new traits - heck, maybe even with new traits) on the menagerie end. Limited Edition. So that people would have to turn in cats to menagerie Right Now, to get that kitty. If enough of this happened, then some older traits might actually become rare and the prices on the “retro” cats might start to go Up instead of them being worthless.
This would not likely change the rapid rate of devaluation of new traits, but it might compensate by shoring up the old traits.
The 9T for 100L "bargain"
