Kitty pricing!

[Nektuu Wytchwood]

I wish to point out the Kittycat's prices for starter kitties. Which sure can contain the latest traits but the latest traits are not necessarily new depending how much time has passed since the last release.

Single Boy: 298L for a boy kittycat and food for 1 week
Single Girl: 298L for a girl kittycat and food for 1 week
1 pair: 599L for a pair of kittycats (1 boy, 1 girl) and food for 1 week
2 pairs: 1500L for 2 pairs of kittycats (2 boys, 2 girls) and food for 2 weeks
5 pairs: 4500L for 5 pairs of kittycats (5 boys, 5 girls), food for 2 weeks, love10%, Energy 10%, breakup and healing vitamins

That means there is a base price for every starter kitty ~1.5$ USD

So for all of you out there who put 6-9T kitties for 100-200L$ it means you sell a 6-9T kitty for 0.7-1.4$ USD that is your kitty is worth LESS than a starter kitty.

The minimum cost to produce a kitty box with NO milk is 74.5lindens. This actually gives you a profit margin of 25.5-125.5L$ for a 100-200L$ kitty.

Which TRANSLATES to ---> 0.41$ USD - 0.82$ USD

LOL

Seriously I REPEAT

Someone who sells for 100-200L$ kittybox (lets not include additional costs ONLY the food) can expect the MOST a return of 0.41-0.82$ USD per box.

Personally even 40 boxes for 100L$ does not worth my time. I prefer to have some decent 6-9T cats and sell them with base 50-200L$ per trait (higher for rare/cute/new traits) than what some people suggest.

How "rubbish" do you consider a kitty to put a price tag that low! Lower than a starter kitty?!

Fabao tells us, I QUOTE from his post above:-

"Another reason is simple
Each product created there is a 'lifetime'. Thus, a cat built today, in three months, he is worthless.
Think of a cake made today. The price of this cake is high. just came out hot from the oven. AMs, the cake has a shelf life. So every day that passes, the price is reduced so that the cake is sold. Then comes the day limit, or sell this cake today, or he goes to waste. So, better to have a prejudice and sell it for a price below cost, than send the cake to the menagerie."


And here is where I have a completely different view. Kittycats do not have a lifetime during which they worth something and then they are useless. How much is any kitty with purple rain eyes worth if you can find NOWHERE purple rain??

A cat built today in three months is worthless he says. Nothing further from the true. I price my marketplace kitties the way I described above they will sell today, next week, next month, in three months, in a year. I know because I am still selling cats for the same price I put them up for, many MONTHS ago. So please. There is no excuse to sell a cat dirt cheap. It is not worth the lindens you will get for the time and work and investment you put into it.

As for the menagerie. THINK! What if we did not have that we would have actually to delete the cats. All the people that complain and talk negative about the menagerie I wonder how much more negative they would talk if they actually had to DELETE their kitties.

The menagerie is actually an ingenious solution and people should be more appreciative of its existence.

I want to finish saying if your kitty is so worthless that you price it below cost just to leave your hands then certainly you try to sell it to the "sucker" that does not understand that he or she would be better off with a kitty better traited than yours. As such you do double injustice, to yourself as a seller you dont respect your merchandise and to the buyer who without knowing any better you take advantage of them.

I am sorry about the tone of this post. But really when I think of it it makes me angry when people undermine the value of kittycats. And YES to perma a kitty you need 1500L$ minimum so any cat you perma worths a minimum 1500 L$ and above.

Too much? I don't think so.