Kitty pricing!

[LibGwen Resident]

These threads follow the same formula. Someone starts a thread because he or she is confused by price differences or exasperated with people endlessly asking what their cats are worth, then slashing the advised price and asking the advisor to show approval. Then the thread is immediately sidetracked by 1) people complaining that people don't have the guts to price their cats what they're worth, and 2) people complaining that people who have been in business a long time just don't understand the needs of people who are just starting out. And all of them say the same thing: "The market is terrible and it's getting worse!" And then the blame game starts.

Every month, cats are cheaper than they have ever been and people bitterly slam the sellers who have survived year after year that *they* are too expensive. (In other threads they also complain that since cats are cheap, food should be cheap too.)

In seeing this thread cloned again and again I have noticed that what people say is seldom what they think. Especially, they don't say what their gripe actually *is*.

- People aren't buying enough cheap cats to make selling cheap cats profitable.
- If only cats were cheaper, more people would buy them.

These statements are incompatible nonsense. What they are really saying is "If only I could force other people to lower *their* prices and force more people to buy *my* cats."