Cat Flipping

[SavageR0SE Resident]

On the subject of cat flipping...

I have been on both sides of this issue personally.
Not too long ago a person who "claimed" to be a newbie to KittyCatS, very personable, told me how much she wanted a megapuss, how she never had one before, would treasure it forever blah blah but she didnt have a lot of lindens. So I priced one of my mega's very low for her (it had some gen so i didnt lose THAT much & it was a nice cat) so she would have her very FIRST megapuss! And she was delighted and I felt good. Nice ending, right? Welllll... a few days later I notice quite by accident that she put the "treasured" mega kitten up for sale for a much higher price!!!?? I don't even think she unpacked it! So I got upset. I felt like she misled me to price the kitten lower and I called her on it. She was like 'Oh, I have too many cats to feed so I have to sell this one." And she offered to let me buy it back. I said. No. You bought the cat. It's yours to do with as you please at this point. But you will not EVER get a lowered price on a KittyCat from me! And Good luck to you! I was really hurt and felt used. To buy cats giving the wrong impression to get them priced lower just to flip them for a few measly extra lindens is pretty low in my book. Even though she is still on my "Friends List" I would never trust her again. And this kind of "flipping" should be discouraged. I won't out the person by name but she knows who she is and what she did. Also we dont "flip" cats for auctions. It's a very big no-no, but people try it every day! Auctions are about breeding and breeders shop there. It is understood one is selling a cat that was bred by the seller. And hopefully a cat that is unique and not a "clone". Geesh add something to the cat, cookie cutter cats lower the value of any KittyCat. And with all the new traits that are constantly coming out it is not hard to find a way to put your own stamp on any cat.

That said. I do buy cats on spec once in a great while. Collectibles or megas or even from close-out/going out of business sales if I find them super low priced. I resell them on marketplace and as far as I know there is no rule, spoken or unspoken, against doing this. I do not mislead any seller to get them to lower the price on their cat. And I have warned breeders when they had a trait way way undervalued just out of a sense of doing what's right. However I do buy a cat or 2 for myself first! lol I'm no saint!

Sometimes when I need lindens for my hungry horde I price my cats low. And if someone buys them and resells them for more, good for them! I don't like to see clones mass produced and watch the price drop to almost nothing on special cats I've custom bred. But what can you do? I guess we can try and be nice to each other, share more, help more, take less, get bent out of shape less too. None of us is perfect and all of us are learning. Most of all we should have a good time cuz not many are in this for the lindens alone.


~SavageR0SE
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