How do you find your kitty?

[AstridSolace Resident]

I go to auctions mostly to sell my best cats, its rare when I ever sell anything from my inworld stores, although I put my best cats there too. I sell some cats on my marketplace store, the downside to having a MP store, is it can be time consuming to set up a cat if u like to be thorough like me, and sometime transactions can fail, no cat sent = no money charged, this only seems to be an issue for me if a customer is buying a cat as a gift for someone else. I've sold more on my MP store than my inworld store.

As for buying cats, well usually, I buy at auctions and live love tables such as at Too Adorable and Vygg, if I find I have a mature cat with no mate - which happens often :0. Auctions are a great place to find trait packed well thought out breeders, or really special cats. However, it's easy to get carried away, and buy too many, and especially depressing if I end up buying several cats there, and end up with a "future sale" on my own cat. As some of the best bargains can be had easily at auctions now days, especially on new traits. Bid Boards are a great place to find bargains too, but I hardly visit them because of the lag, also I prefer to bid near the end, so I can be sure I'm online when it closes, as it's easy for me to forget that I've made a bid otherwise, and some people get really antsy if I happen to be offline when the Bid Board closes. I do like to explore the markets, and I usually check most markets out when i have time, but i find i can end up overspending this way, so i prefer to use area search if looking for something specific, however not everyone clearly labels their cats, so the range of choices this way can be very limited. I do buy on the MP, and have no issue with doing so when I don't have time to look around the markets, or cant find what I'm looking for inworld, and there are amazing cats to be found on there for cheap also, also if I like the breeders cats on the MP, I like to also search their inworld stores if listed. I don't just plan to buy cats from friends and well know breeders only, although because I buy mostly at auctions it ends up that way. I do check out friends shops, but if I can I like to mix up my lines with cats from many different breeders, new or familiar, I buy a lot more cats than I sell!