Best way to liquidate a cattery?

[Wyndy Paine]

So I've been perusing the forum regarding pricing. I've been doing KittyCats! for years and have almost 1000 boxes in my cattery (this after much menagerie-ing). They are nice kitties, but honestly, if I were to open up a stall and try to sell them, they wouldn't sell. Most are older traits and it seems these days, wandering through the markets, that only the new traits are popular and frankly, available (I have been looking for burmese sable, one of my favorite furs, and can't find it anywhere). Where the newer traits are available, the prices are exhorbitant for anyone who is not playing sl solely to breed and sell kittycats!

So, you tell me. I spent alot of time breeding these kitties at one time, I didn't just buy out a bunch of breeders. However, they will not sell for 100L per trait, guaranteed. I think, personally, that kittycats! should be something that everyone can enjoy, considering how much I've always enjoyed them. These would make great starter kitties for someone new to KittyCats! or just someone with not many lindens to spend. What would you do?

thanks for considerate responses!
wyndy paine

[GhostCollective Resident]

I have a Burmese Sable;

Fur: Burmese - Sable
Eyes: Bronze (Curious|Big)
Shade: Natural
Tail: Genesis
Ears: Genesis
Whiskers: Latte (Guitar)
Size: Normal

feel free to IM me and we can work something out. As for what to do, I agree but not sure what to do exactly. I wish they would come out with new menage tigers or other things we can use K$ on becaue then it wouldnt seem too pointless and too. Wish I could help more.
thanks for considerate responses!
wyndy paine

[Senta Garnburg]

You should not be discouraged by the high Prices on the markets. I think that there are still beginners and KittyCats fans who buy kitties just because they like them and if they are affordable. Personally I don't even like the most of the newer traits and two of my friends are always looking for older Genesis generations.
You will never find out if you don't try to do a sale.
Greetings
Senta

[Kayla Woodrunner]

It is always just finding the right kitty for the right buyer. Because of that, I don't know of a way to get rid of 1000 boxes at one time. It is more one box at a time kind of thing. Anytime I've seen someone try to sell a grouping of kitties, they never got a good price for it even when it was collectibles.

While, I agree, new traits sell faster because breeders try to get them when they don't have them, I like to sell older furs. It's like the difference between the sales of pop songs versus R&B. There are people still buying R&B, and just like R&B singers, I find you have to find the right place for the older furs and eyes. I'd suggest going to a few auctions. Listen to the auctioneers -- some of them like certain furs or encourage buyers to buy retired traits. One auctioneer calls them couture cats if the comibination is pleasing. Another auctioneer loves matchy matchy cats which have eyes that match the fur color. I find I don't sell well at daytime auctions ranging from 25%-50% of the time I sell, doesn't matter who the auctioneers are as it seems more daytime auctions have just the breeders come. Night time auctions I sell 75-90% of the time. Night time seems to have a greater range of buyers who come to the auction.

Also I do well on bidboards on one particular sim -- it isn't a big sim but the live table allows people to put up kitties from 0%-100%, not just 100%. The live table which brings in the traffic are close to the bidboards and it seems like there is a variety of buyers as I've sold Maine coon, Bali Seal and Bengal black. My experience on the big sim bidboards, those don't sell well but I can sell my new traits. Some sims require you to have a shop there to use the bidboard but others don't. So browse bidboards at several sims -- check out what sells (best to check close to end of auction time because a lot of people don't bid until the last 10 minutes) -- and look for bidboards that have the type of kitty you want to create/sell is selling. Some bidboards are cheap 1L-20L and some are more expensive 75L.

also you don't know why people buy. A fair amount of people have a nostalgic fondness for the first fur/s they bred and will sometimes buy that fur again if it comes with an eye combo they don't have. Sometimes people are looking for a particular eye or fur for various reasons. I went through a phase where I was trying to get every single eye and did so although I had to pay a premium on a few of them because they were hard to find. I am currently working through the list of furs now. And I am pretty sure I'm not the only one. Sometimes someone wants a cat that looks like their RL cat. Another person might be buying a gift for an SL friend who doesn't have a kittycat. Breeders buy what they think they can sell high but everybody else buys for a multitude of reasons.

I've sold my older fur/eye combo for between 700-1100 at auctions and bidboards. It's not the premium prices of onyx or tonki but it's okay and does net me between 75L-100L per trait. I'd also suggest uptraiting a few so that they have swanky tail or light wave whiskers or something on the recessive end: it gives a bit of style to the cat and introduces uniqueness in the combos. Mysterious/curious/plush brings the price down because so much of those traits is available out there == think mass production versus "couture". Cats with mysterious tail/curious ears/white mysterious whiskers combos are so ubiquitious that 100L-350L is about what they are worth. Mass production where a lot of something is available brings down the prices of the mass-produced poduct just like RL. Adding a few traits like dreamy can add pop to a kitty. I've seen one person do that and her kitties sell regularly for 1,500-2,000 at auction even though they have an older fur. She makes lovely combos with some of the traits that were released a year ago but still fairly recessive.

My other bit of advice is watch the Monthly Cat contest of kittycats. A lot of times it will be an older fur/eye combo with older traits too as the contest seems to be set up to be fair to newbies as well as breeders. Try to make that cat. If you can then you can earn anywhere from an emerald to a diamond. If you have an older cattery, you are set up to have a chance at winning a jewel which you can sell or save to get a fancie cat. Like this month's cat:
Fur: Snowshoe - Chocolate
Eyes: Fire (Shape: Curious | Pupil: Big)
Shade: Natural
Tail: Plush
Ears: Genesis
Whiskers: Silver (Shape: Guitar)

http://kittycats.biz/forum/showthread.php?tid=20127

So it's not really advice on getting rid of a cattery but may help in selling individual cats that have older furs/eyes. Anyways, I hope it helps.

[Sanura Snowpaw]

Just as you are looking for older traits there are others out there looking for the same things. Personally I have always loved a mix of newer and older traits. I don't breed for the full 9 nor do I breed for the newest gotta have trait I breed for what I find visibly attractive.

You might want to try the marketplace as well, you will need to use the old magic box as they are no copy items. And then the maybe more traity or uncommon traits try at auction or on some bid boards.

[namie Teardrop]

buy 3 menagerie tiger megapuss, sell them like 12k/14K each, and get rich

[Jolita Korobase]

Maybe u can try to sell them on sl marketplace ?

[Gloria Marchant]

Maybe I'm late, but I do have a Burmese Sable as well:
http://gyazo.com/181bcb9c41bab338cc0c322773c07cef
PM (here) or IM (in-world) me if you're interested!

[Kjerstin Resident]

(02-10-2015 05:07 PM)Wyndy Paine Wrote:  So I've been perusing the forum regarding pricing. I've been doing KittyCats! for years and have almost 1000 boxes in my cattery (this after much menagerie-ing). They are nice kitties, but honestly, if I were to open up a stall and try to sell them, they wouldn't sell. Most are older traits and it seems these days, wandering through the markets, that only the new traits are popular and frankly, available (I have been looking for burmese sable, one of my favorite furs, and can't find it anywhere). Where the newer traits are available, the prices are exhorbitant for anyone who is not playing sl solely to breed and sell kittycats!

So, you tell me. I spent alot of time breeding these kitties at one time, I didn't just buy out a bunch of breeders. However, they will not sell for 100L per trait, guaranteed. I think, personally, that kittycats! should be something that everyone can enjoy, considering how much I've always enjoyed them. These would make great starter kitties for someone new to KittyCats! or just someone with not many lindens to spend. What would you do?

thanks for considerate responses!
wyndy paine

I agree with you. The whole KittyCatS! phenomena has become no more than a cash grab. It's the same with most everything in Sl: those who got in early make a lot of money; the rest go without.

This past week I've sent 27 cats, (mostly live) to the menagerie in order to pay the food bill.

I have 4 burmese sables (all boys) and would be happy to give you one.

[Xuandre SpiritWeaver]

I have some Burmese I think, and I've seen some at Pixel Paws market. My sales carts range from specials to low traited cat to high traited new furs/traits, what sells just depends on what a particular person is looking for, so get one of the inexpensive carts and put some out, it's worth a try.

(02-10-2015 05:07 PM)Wyndy Paine Wrote:  So I've been perusing the forum regarding pricing. I've been doing KittyCats! for years and have almost 1000 boxes in my cattery (this after much menagerie-ing). They are nice kitties, but honestly, if I were to open up a stall and try to sell them, they wouldn't sell. Most are older traits and it seems these days, wandering through the markets, that only the new traits are popular and frankly, available (I have been looking for burmese sable, one of my favorite furs, and can't find it anywhere). Where the newer traits are available, the prices are exhorbitant for anyone who is not playing sl solely to breed and sell kittycats!

So, you tell me. I spent alot of time breeding these kitties at one time, I didn't just buy out a bunch of breeders. However, they will not sell for 100L per trait, guaranteed. I think, personally, that kittycats! should be something that everyone can enjoy, considering how much I've always enjoyed them. These would make great starter kitties for someone new to KittyCats! or just someone with not many lindens to spend. What would you do?

thanks for considerate responses!
wyndy paine