Well i don't often step in to post very positive comments about KittyCatS as i'm more interested in the negative points being taken care of than the positive ( which largely counterbalance negative i think ) and there's plenty of others who regularly send give kudos to the team anyhow.
The fact is that group membership increases slowly but surely and most newcomers, perplexed by breeding principles don't buy many starters, they buy cheap kitties then after having understood a bit start investing in better stock.
The market is a funny thing ; i sell mostly mid-range kitties, and i've had weeks when i didn't sell a thing , then weeks like over a month ago when to my surprise i made 50K + in 1 week, and from nothing higher than siamese flames, and i can only be bothered to advertise roughly something like once per month ^^ This was just a couple of weeks after the Valentine collection release when i thought that the market would be totally dead. Some much older breeds like the Black Russian Porcelain 9T with platinum or rainbow seem to make a quiet comeback and i'm so glad i kept a few good porcelain/gerbera orange boxes and i'll be getting them out pretty soon to re-release that line.
Its obvious that prices can't hold eternally as more and more of a new trait becomes available on the market.
But then take the Aby B&S for example, over 5 months after the first appeared they are still selling upwards of 10K for even for an averagely traited one, and the same will happen for at least one of the Balinese. The time span for big market success is from the apparition of a great new fur or trait until the a new batch of trait releases but some furs do manage to override even this quite well.
I personally would never fork out 75K for a new fur even if i could afford it as unless one has a pair in order to hit the ground running then theres not much chance of recuperating the investment, except in the case of already having a good turnover from other sales in which case i'd just be investing profit, and gambling on the prices holding high for a few weeks.
I haven't auctioned for a while now but when i did one could never tell when an auction would ninja or not, no-one knows when the cosmo-telluric conditions will be favorable
Each time theres a slump for a while people think it's the end then it takes off again. The only week to really avoid i found was the end of the month when people don't have their pay yet but even then, some buyers realize this and go looking for bargains and bid wars can take off.
Apart from that, the worst thing that happens, as i said recently in another thread is that a very few irresponsible breeders start dumping prices on a great fur as soon as they get their hands on a brand new fur and this really isn't cool to their customers who have provided them with the means to obtain this very fur.
As for introducing a whole new line of kitties, i don't really see the benefit especially as so many unique features are already introduced to the present ones, and each update and release is full of surprises and new features.
Having said this, we all, and i myself get thoroughly fed up from time to time and feel like posting a thread like this one or giving up, but for the moment i'm still in there, although obviously not as enthralled as i was a year ago but then thats quite normal.
About Kittycats and their prices.
