Kitty pricing!

[Nektuu Wytchwood]

(04-17-2015 01:49 AM)Arwen Swordthain Wrote:  

(04-16-2015 12:19 PM)Nektuu Wytchwood Wrote:  I was told to post again, LOL.

Who keeps telling you to post?

It was a joke... friends that thought it would be fine to voice my opinions.

Now, I do not go to auctions anymore nor follow the market closely be it for current traits or for limited edition cats.

So what I share is from my past experience.

Many of you have written interesting posts with your thoughts and arguments and so far I really enjoyed this thread.

In the secondary kittycats market prices are pliable. I learned this early. I used to go around the sims looking at every shop, looking at every box. Made the round more than twice each month so that I know and understand "what is out there, at what prices and how should I price my kitties."

Prices fluctuate with location and in time. There can be no other way for it and depending how you see it it can be a delightful thing.

For me the cost to make a new box is the food + milk I pay for 7 days for a pair of cats. That is 140 lindens.

Each one of us understand and calculates things in their own personal way. Others include the cost of the land they keep their kitties in, others count in the money they spent to buy the ancestors, others can be thinking the time and tries they spend pairing kitties until they get that ONE desired birth. I think of the time I spend and the work it takes to post a kitty in the marketplace. And I am sure people use many other ways that I cannot think citing here. The point is, pricing is an arbitrary thing/procedure, and that is fine too.

Imagine walking a day around the sims and you find that kitty you would love to have at an awesome price. All the other shops you visited have it at high prices far more than you willing to pay, but this here is a bargain, you could buy it and be happy, could even use it to make a good profit yourself.

Now imagine looking for a kitty for ages. Never happened to see it less than a certain price so one day you decide you have saved enough and it is now time. You go buy that kitty that you longingly wanted all this time. But... in less than 30 minutes you see the impossible... this kitty is sold half the price you bought it.... somewhere else you did not look and somehow missed. There is an acid feeling in your stomach that turns your joy to displeasure.

I am saying that both situations are part of the game. Personally I believe that things balance out long term, you will pay a little more here you will save a little more there.

I would not hold grudges against the seller that posts a high price (he did not force you to buy his cat after all and the cat may still be worth that much) nor the seller that offered the bargain (he may have a good reason to do so, maybe a real life emergency, though most often than not he just has his own way of perceiving things, however everyone is entitled to think and act for themselves).
And if they are lazy like me, people also may also put up a price and don't bother to update in years, lol!

The market has ways to regulate itself and we are lucky that kittycats is run in a capable manner as Wendi has been so perceptive to point out.