Kitty pricing!

[Nektuu Wytchwood]

(04-16-2015 05:35 AM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  When considering pricing, don't forget, each cat not only has a past-cost .. it has a future cost as well. And the size of your Cattery matters. Sometimes, even though you don't want to, you have to reduce your FUTURE costs by reducing the head-count. So you choices are menagerie or sell. There is a negative feeling toward the menagerie .. it simply feels better to pass the cat on to someone else than to send it in. So. it makes sense to put it out for 100 (heck, why not make an additional 25, if you can?), and avoid both the future cost and the negative feelings. Could you give it away? Sure. But, often, it's not just one or two .. it's 20 or 40 you need to get rid of.

Don't like that? Think it's better to simply give them to a friend for free? OK. But, remember, just because you didn't see a price, or money change hands, does NOT eliminate the downward effect on the market. If you think about it, giving those 40 kittens to friends for free has a far worse effect than selling them all for 100. But, sure, at least nobody saw you putting out a freebie-giver to complain about your low price.

To make myself clear:-

Total: 382 Cats (? 188 ? 194) | 3913 Boxes (? 1936 ? 1977)

I menagerie freely. If you people have negative feelings about this ask Callie and she will explain to you that the menagerie is cat's heaven where every kitty has an awesome time, food, play and friends.

I love going for my next menagerie tiger.

& If I give freebies it will be 1 of the 2. My dear friends that are hardcore community members and spend a lot of money on kittycats monthly or I give intentionally cats to friends that had no experience and knowledge of kittycats, advertising the kittycats and hoping to make an opening for more people to join in, even if casually, it is a plus.

However if someone happens to retire from kittycats and wants to donate his kitties to a friend it is an one off thing.

I have no regrets, I spent millions of lindens in kittycats and honestly I am not bothered much by all this, the market will adjust.