KittyCatS Love & Frustration

[Kikii Littlepaws]

I'm sad to say that I bought both the Group and Owner versions of Rene's profiler. I thought that it was a helpful product for getting the word out about my cats and my auctions. I thought it was nice to be able to browse cats with filters on his market page. I thought it would help to have my auctions listed on the calendar, there. So, I forked out for both the individual and the group versions. Individual for myself, at first, but then group for auctions. In the beginning, I even found Rene to be kind and helpful.

But then, perfectly lovely friends and patrons began having issues. I recall one who couldn't list her cat, nor could I, on the group profilers that I set up in my auction area. It didn't matter which of us input her cat, it seemed, hers would just not show up in the auction info or on the market site at all. I'm not even sure why that was, at that time, because this was *before* the existence of the so-called competitor's product.

I perve pedigrees old school, too, but I do it hand-in-hand with usage of a profiler. Sometimes, depending on the owners of the cat's ancestors, you can actually see more on the profiler than you can perving the pedigree old school, particularly when proxy situations happen. So, both as an auctioneer and a breeder/seller of cats, I enjoy having one.

That said, Torgon's is more affordable. Torgon's does the job of showing ancestry up to great-grandparents. Torgon's provides auction and market listings, and it does things that Monsieur Marseille's will NOT do. Customization is lovely for those that want it.

However, bottom line for me is this: While I recognize that Rene Marseille is not responsible for returning any L$ spent on his products, which did work at the time of purchase, I find his behavior very unethical. I don't appreciate bullies, and he *is* a bully.

With that, I'll just point at my signature. I'm not a friend of Torgon's. I don't know Torgon really at all, though I have found him to be kind when I have needed assistance. And I am happy to have given him my L$ for the profilers, even if that means I'm banned from using the ones I forked out L$5500 in total for. I'd leave a review on the marketplace for them, but I bought them in world. I might try the comment piggy-backing thing, but that feels a little rude to whomever may have left a nice & genuinely grateful review. I have nothing to gain with the image in my signature, or the link to his marketplace listing - but I believe in the product, and more than that, I believe that this is one way to do just what the little graphic says; Support Honest & Fair Creators.

I would ban Rene at CatTales, to be honest, and I think Mirsoul would agree with me, but I don't want to cause a problem for our renters who still use his products, since he requires that he be permitted to access them wherever they are in use. If I could afford to buy each of our renters one of Torgon's, though, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Rene isn't trying to defend his IP, he knows that he has no legal leg to stand on, he's just trying to bully everyone into allowing him a monopoly on a product/service, that frankly, someone else did a lot more affordably!