The 9T for 100L "bargain"

[anna Acanthus]

Whatever the intentions behind Hathor's remark it's read at face value and at this face value it's highly inflammatory so of course it's offensive to anyone who cares about the human condition in general.
I can say i know Dimpz pretty well by now and anyone else who does will also know that any "holier than thou' attitude has absolutely no place in her personality, quite the opposite in fact.

As for the subject of this thread, i wasn't going to post on it having been through the subject so many times in the last couple of years and i don't think theres really any immediate solution possible.
I do think Ivy's idea is the nearest thing we've come to it but i think that the implementation would also require a re-evaluation of the K$=L$ coefficient so i'm not sure if we wouldn't end up at the same difference.

Personally i don't think i've ever sold or bought a kitty for under 1K except for maybe having grabbed up something useful to my projects from the Love Shacks when in a hurry.
And i've made no secret of the fact that i try to contribute towards the market in general by never dropping my prices below a certain level, and certainly not undercutting on a new recessive.
Call me "Elitist" if you like but it is in fact just logic, i'm part of a market so what is good for that market = good for me = good for that market etc ad inf …

Then again, i'm not rich but i do have a small hobby budget which permits me to maintain a homestead and a small to medium cattery through a few bad months when i can't cover costs.
This however isn't the case for everyone and many who just love their kitties have to get kibble money any way they can.
Those who only got into KCs to make some fast pocket money will soon drop out, especially over summer and we MAY have a pickup around september but that remains to be seen, there are too many factors involved to be able to predict with any accuracy what may happen from year to year.

We also need to rethink the subject of 9Ts.
It is now about 3 years since the first, so just any old 9T won't cut it anymore.
As always, we need to keep improving our stock, get the best we can either shown or hidden in order to be able to command any decent kind of price.
There is also a small market for well-bred older traited cats, especially if the trait combo is very appealing.
These cats are especially invaluable when it comes to breeding out pure, more dominant traiteds, the extreme usefulness of which, to certain fine tuners needs no explaining.
It's all about fine tuning with breeding and always has been.

Just another thing about new true recessives.
Now i know that we all need the excitement of possibly finding the latest and greatest when a new collection comes out, but i think that if each slot was limited to lets say, 2 per year at most ?, then values could hold longer and also we'd of course have more of a chance to develop them.
Ex : Snow Cream did in fact hold up pretty well for a good 3/4 months (which BTW was about the same lasting time that the fabulous Bengal Snow had way back in 2011) but the Siam Tortie didn't have much of a run with Aby Choc so soon after.
The longest run was Ody Bel which appeared sometime early 2012 if i remember rightly and by now we're all sick of seeing it and it was top dog for far too long although it's still an extremely useful indicator of the presence of a new ultra recessive eye.

So please KC team can we slow down on new Ultras ?