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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

2011 Pickups and Hold-Backs!

Diego Velarde

Diego Velarde

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Here are most of this year's pickups and a few of my hold-backs as well. These are going to add some fire power on next year breeding projects. I'm very excited to get some of these projects started.

First are the acquisitions:

Starting with my only Tinley Pickup - Male Lesser Enchi from Chad Leever

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Male RDR Phantom from Ralph. I love this guys eyes (the snake's that is)

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Male BP Hypo from Jeremy Smith

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Female Super Mojave and female Enchi from Rich Schlosser

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Female Mojave Hypo from Josh Buchwald

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Female Sable from Shadera Lorrain. She didnt want to be photographed and was daring me to touch her :D

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Now some of the Hold-Backs! :thumbsup:

Female Lemon Pastel

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Females Calico... I love my girls...

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Male Black Magic - black pastel mojave

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Man, those are all such sweet animals. I gotta say though, I'm partial to the sable. :D
 
Diego that lemon is hot. You produce anymore of those I want one lol. Can never get enough quality base morphs. Also anything with black pastel looks sooo cool, especially hypo. Great pickups!
 
WOW! That's about all I can say, gorgeous pick-ups and holdbacks! I'm having trouble picking a favorite... they're all too nice! :thumbsup:
 
damn that sable is gorgeous and I am totally in love with the black pastel hypo.....great pick ups :thumbsup:
 
That black pastel hypo is smoking hot! And that black magic is gonna throw some awesome babies down the road. Great pickups/holdbacks!
 
Awesome looking snakes Diego!
I'm with Michael, that is one smokin pastel.
Quality pastels have become possibly one of the hardest to find single gene snakes these days.
 
Thanks everyone! I'm very excited to get some of this projects going. Specially the hypo stuff since I produced a few hets this year and I have a pos. het to prove out as well.

mizztaztic7 said:
Diego that lemon is hot. You produce anymore of those I want one lol. Can never get enough quality base morphs. Also anything with black pastel looks sooo cool, especially hypo. Great pickups!
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Yes she is, thanks! I cant believe I almost sold her. Her mom is taking this season off. She laid for me the last two years so I figured she deserves a break. :yesnod:
 
Absolutely gorgeous pickups! Wowzers!

I may have to get a Lemon Pastel from you in the future. That's one of the best Pastels I've ever seen!
 
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