diff --git a/scripts/catalog-sync.sh b/scripts/catalog-sync.sh
index 7f2b0cce..ad385852 100755
--- a/scripts/catalog-sync.sh
+++ b/scripts/catalog-sync.sh
@@ -117,6 +117,21 @@ ACTIONS=(audit)
 CONFIRM=""
 # Empty for the audit-only branch on purpose: no repair flags are passed.
 ACTION_FLAGS=()
+# Prints a warning when the chosen source only serves furnidata (no .nitro
+# bundles), so the import step would find nothing to download.
+warn_compare_only_sources() {
+	case "$SOURCE_LABEL" in
+	"Habbo (COM)" | "Habbo (NL)" | "Habbo (DE)" | "Habbo (FR)" | \
+	"Habbo (ES)" | "Habbo (FI)" | "Habbo (BR)" | "Habbo (TR)" | \
+	"Habbo (IT - GitHub mirror)" | "YabboHotel" | "Wibbo" | "Hubba.cc")
+		echo
+		echo "Note: ${SOURCE_LABEL} only serves furnidata — there are no .nitro"
+		echo "bundles to import, so the import step can only COMPARE."
+		echo "To actually import furniture, pick a source that serves bundles"
+		echo "(Habblet City, VirtualCity, SodaStudios, Habboon, Leet, Hubbly) or 'a'."
+		;;
+	esac
+}
 case "$ACTION_CHOICE" in
 	1)
 		ACTIONS=(audit "[nothing written]")
@@ -179,6 +194,9 @@ esac
 
 echo
 printf 'Running: %s against %s\n' "${ACTIONS[1]}" "$SOURCE_LABEL"
+case "$ACTION_FLAGS" in
+	*--import-new*) warn_compare_only_sources ;;
+esac
 if [ -n "$CONFIRM" ]; then
 	read -r -p "$CONFIRM" REPLY
 	if [ "$REPLY" != "y" ] && [ "$REPLY" != "Y" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/catalog-sync.test.ts b/scripts/catalog-sync.test.ts
index 827ac8e1..bb5c5ab2 100644
--- a/scripts/catalog-sync.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/catalog-sync.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import {
+	canImportBundles,
 	DEFAULT_CATALOG_SYNC_FLAGS,
 	describeActions,
 	parseCatalogSyncArgs,
@@ -131,6 +132,36 @@ describe("catalog-sync import selection", () => {
 	});
 });
 
+describe("catalog-sync import feasibility", () => {
+	it("imports from a source that serves bundles", () => {
+		expect(
+			canImportBundles({
+				id: "default-habblet-city",
+				name: "Habblet City",
+				furnidataUrl: "https://www.habblet.city/gamedata/furnidata.json",
+				nitroBaseUrl: "https://www.habblet.city/nitro/bundled/furniture",
+				iconBaseUrl: "",
+				hotel: "com",
+			} as never),
+		).toBe(true);
+	});
+
+	// The Habbo presets have no nitro/icon base URL: their furnidata can be
+	// compared, but there is nothing to download from.
+	it("does not import from a compare-only source", () => {
+		expect(
+			canImportBundles({
+				id: "default-habbo-com",
+				name: "Habbo (COM)",
+				furnidataUrl: "https://www.habbo.com/gamedata/furnidata_json/1",
+				nitroBaseUrl: "",
+				iconBaseUrl: "",
+				hotel: "com",
+			} as never),
+		).toBe(false);
+	});
+});
+
 describe("catalog-sync step composition", () => {
 	it("--everything turns on every step except the writing ones", () => {
 		const flags = parseCatalogSyncArgs(["--everything"]);
diff --git a/scripts/catalog-sync.ts b/scripts/catalog-sync.ts
index b3cd9ab5..d040a9f9 100644
--- a/scripts/catalog-sync.ts
+++ b/scripts/catalog-sync.ts
@@ -83,6 +83,22 @@ export interface ImportOutcome {
 	skipped: number;
 	failed: number;
 	failures: Array<{ classname: string; error: string }>;
+	/** Sources that were skipped because they cannot serve bundles. */
+	skippedSources: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether a source can actually be imported from.
+ *
+ * The clone import downloads `${nitroBaseUrl}/${classname}.nitro` and gives up
+ * when that is not reachable. Habbo's own entries carry no nitro/icon base URLs
+ * (their furnidata is served, their assets are not), so they are compare-only:
+ * perfect for finding out what this hotel lacks, useless for actually fetching
+ * it. The SWF-based path that works against `images.habbo.com` lives in
+ * `furni-import.ts`, not in the clone importer this CLI uses.
+ */
+export function canImportBundles(source: SourceRef): boolean {
+	return Boolean(source.nitroBaseUrl?.trim());
 }
 
 export interface CatalogSyncFlags {
@@ -420,8 +436,16 @@ async function stepImportNew(
 		itemType: string;
 	}> = [];
 	let lastSource = "";
+	const skippedSources: string[] = [];
 
 	for (const source of sources) {
+		if (!canImportBundles(source)) {
+			log(
+				`! ${source.name} serves no .nitro bundles — it can be compared against, but nothing can be imported from it`,
+			);
+			skippedSources.push(source.name);
+			continue;
+		}
 		if (flags.importLimit > 0 && planned >= flags.importLimit) break;
 		const remaining = flags.importLimit
 			? flags.importLimit - planned
@@ -515,6 +539,7 @@ async function stepImportNew(
 		skipped,
 		failed,
 		failures: failures.slice(0, 25),
+		skippedSources,
 	};
 }
 
@@ -736,12 +761,12 @@ function printSummary(report: AuditReport, started: number): void {
 		console.log(
 			`  imported from source   ${outcome.imported} new (${outcome.skipped} already present, ${outcome.failed} failed)`,
 		);
+		if (outcome.skippedSources.length > 0)
+			console.log(
+				`  compared only          ${outcome.skippedSources.join(", ")} (no .nitro bundles to import from)`,
+			);
 		for (const failure of outcome.failures)
 			console.log(`    ${failure.classname}: ${failure.error}`);
-		if (outcome.failures.length > 0)
-			console.log(
-				`  import failures are per-item: a failed download never aborts the run.`,
-			);
 	}
 
 	if (report.missingFromSources.length > 0) {