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MitsuruKirijo06 Resident · 10-12-2017, 07:38 PM

(10-12-2017 06:04 AM)Coverboytoy Resident Wrote: Hello Nino,

I was looking forward to attending your auction and seeing how it will turn out, but not a whole lot of people are excited about this wait list you have.

I am a bit shocked about the Elite waiting list that you have and then having a 2nd B list as an idea. All auctioneers on this grid welcome EVERYONE with open arms because it is a realm of community support. In my perceptive, when you put this Elite list up and those in that list only can only join your panels is detrimental because it is saying only you support those people in that list. Yet, you want the general public who are not on that list to buy their cats?

Note that 90% of the buyers are breeders and when you only select a handful of them to join your auction, most will not want to support this because they will left out. Although this is your auction and it's your rules, just know that most people will not be accepting of your Elite List vs your B list especially when all other auctions accepts all and everyone.

For me personally, everyone knows I buy cats and I drop linden to get what I want, but I cannot accept an auction that will only accept certain people on a regular basis then only pull a couple of people from the general population. It's saying you only want the support to go to your Elite list, and don't me wrong, everyone on that list deserves the linden, but it just doesn't feel right to me. It just doesn't serve the community as a whole especially now that the market is very unstable and it's already hard as it is to sell cats.

I wish you well in your comeback and hope you ponder on making your auctions available to the public. If that's not the case, everyone else will go where they are accepted with open arms.

Please don't feel I am raining on your parade, but in order for support to go in full circle, the THE COMMUNITY HAS TO feel welcomed with open arms otherwise, your auction is going feel like a cult or organized religion. Let's put in in simple terms, if you only invite your elite list to join your panels with a minimum bid of $1000L, most who are not on the list will not want to support those in your list. I just feel it's bad juju for everyone. And the last thing we need here in this community is animosity due to a wait list.

I wish you all the best in your come back and with all your endeavors.

(10-11-2017 01:50 PM)Nino Heartsdale Wrote: Further to Mitsuru's query:

A friend came up with a suggestion, which I thought was a great idea.... so I have implemented it.

In the interests of being inclusive, I have introduced a new waiting list which anyone can join, and I will allocate 2 panels every month to people from the list.

Thanks so much Coverboy. I attempted to write very very similar thoughts here in the forums but 1 I'm not near as good with words as you. 2 I felt people would take what I said the wrong way so I im'ed her in world and told her how I feel. I agree with you 100% and will be taking myself off that "2nd list" and not supporting her auction unless she changes her waiting list so everyone new and old has a fair shot at buying panels and selling cats. There is one other issue I brought up privately that hasnt been discussed here yet. The Fact that Ninos auction starts near the tail end of one Cattails auction and the start of another. So its going during 2 other auctions which have been running for at least a year. Not only is that not fair either but it splits the market in half or worse. A lot of Potentional buyers will be at the other auction and vice versa. So sales could suffer from it.