(08-27-2015 10:03 AM)Devilness Chant Wrote: Your idea Ms Magick, for selling panels at the last min would be great for fun auctions. But it wouldn't work for others, because the auctioneer needs time to do their job. Advertising, setting up displays, and so forth.
Good point! I was thinking about what I'd seen at auctions for other breedables, but the breeding for them is different.
And at some of the most fun auctions, you have to be a very knowledgeable buyer regarding things like hiddens and what is passable, because the auctioneer pretty much just reads what everyone can see.
(08-27-2015 08:57 AM)Ivy Norsk Wrote: If I were an auctioneer I would be freaked out by the idea that I was going into an auction where I didn't know how many panels I was selling, and cats where I'd never seen the pedigree before. Once upon a time Liriel Garnet, who taught breeding at Kitty Kottage and used to keep the Saga charts, used to say that going to auctions was one of the best ways to learn how to read a pedigree. This was true in the way she ran auctions, because she would go through showns and hiddens meticulously. I would not say this today to a new breeder, because some auctioneers simply read the traits and do no analysis at all or do it minimally. I understand that different auctioneers have different styles and I'm okay with that. But I would also say that some auctioneers, who really do the pedigree work and go through it with the audience, are better for new breeders. If everybody in the audience is an oldbie or a middlebie, then fine, we probably don't need that, but I still think the auctioneer should know as much as can be reckoned about the cat on the panel.
*nods* I'd love to see more of this. You can really see the skill of the auctioneer when they start going through the hiddens and analyzing everything. I know I'd have to be pull up spreadsheet after spreadsheet, especially for all the traits in the middle. I have the feeling that they put in a lot more prep than I realized!
More Cancellations .... what's going on breeders ??
