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>If you opened a shoe shop in the middle of town you wouldn't expect to get threats from your competitors!
You wouldn't?
I think you might. It all depends if the town can sustain two shoe shops if they are both targeting the same market I would think it could get very awkward and competitive.
The Bengal breed needs to maintain some standards, so the recording of pedigrees and registering pure bred cats attempts to maintain the breed as is. Otherwise breeders could breed any number of brown tabby moggies together, call them Bengals and charge people for them. No-one is forced to buy a Bengal, but if you want a registered pure Bengal then you will need to pay pedigree prices.
Prices become "inflated" as the market decides what the prices are, anything that is desirable is going to command a high price. If Bengal breeders cannot sell for high prices the prices come down, if the cats are still desirable then the price continues as is or goes up.
Bengals are at the high end of the pedigree cat market, that is true but just as someone will pay a big price for a designer label handbag when a cheap handbag would do the same job, then people are willing to pay more for a Bengal than they are willing to do for a rescue moggie or some other less desirable pedigree cat.
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