Kitty pricing!

[Emilia Darkwatch]

One significant problem with traits/pricing of them is that by the time you have made a nice kitty with new traits in it, and invested in doing so... the next new and shiny thing comes along. That kitty you invested in does, most times, quite honestly become comparatively worthless unless you sell it fast enough. Personally, I do not like the pressure of that so I really just breed cats now that I love and not so much for profit

Like Wendi, I also remember such discussions back in the starting days of KittycatS about these things and really much does come down to the flow of new traits from the cats themselves. There are less traits now given by the LE cats than there used to be which for sure has helped. At one time there were a lot more appearing at a given time which was causing quite some instability but, as far as I recall, KittycatS did listen and did then decrease the amount of new traits coming out. I guess it is a very fine line between putting out new traits and keeping it interesting for everybody, and putting those traits out too fast which causes problems in the market

I do think it is great that we can all have a discussion about the market in general as it is not terribly good overall and has not been for quite some time... hence all of the flash sales that can occur when people are discouraged. The flow of traits does affect the market. I personally feel it is still a bit too fast for this flow. However, more so, I would say that like any economical structure, it is certainly affected by all of us the most. What we buy, how much we will pay for it and if we shop around, to name but a few factors. Although it would in some ways be great to think we can all price cats in accordance with somekind of agreed standard, I think that with more and more people having the cats now this becomes less of a possibility as free choice increases. At first, with the cats.. it was working for a time to have an agreed amount per trait and was possible, due to the relatively small number of breeders. Now, with so many, much as I would like it to be possible, I am not sure it is.

There will always be that person selling kitties for 100 or 200L each. What I would say is that then it is important to breed good cats which... like the ice wine, are worth more comparatively from those who value that in a cat but are priced FAIRLY and not greedily by any of us. Sure, we want to make some profit sometimes but also for people to enjoy what they buy and feel it was value for money. The ones floating around for 100 or 200 are not terribly good in pedigree, generally... so for those who like a good pedigree there will (I hope) always be a fair market where we can ask more, and a fair price for such kitties. However, in all honesty such buyers are getting less and less and it is harder to sell cats for good prices for a variety of reasons