• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.

the new 2012 babys.......

Well a few that Im hoping to hit the odds on this year are a Cinny Crystal, hopefully a male to breed to my bumble bee Special. If Im lucky a few pumas and maybe even a citrus puma, spector/spark super, some of the cool super citrus calico stuff, superpastel citrus calico spider butter (only one pastel gene will be citrus from citrus calico to killer queen bee) please odds gods, Hopefully some cool shatter pattern and enchi combos as well. This year I am hoping to add a GHI Red Stripe and maybe some OD combo
 
If my season goes well enough, I will be adding some non-ball species and whatever my friend has available, which will probably be a leopard something or other, but, really, I just dont know yet. Too early in the season really to tell as first and for most is saving $ to feed the snakes I currently have. I think I will be trading some het axanthic stuff to someone and may delve into something a little harder to come by, but, I just dont know yet. Now, the real question is, what do I want to get..:) Hmm..lets see, a clown, pied, coral glow, black head, ghi, trick, ....and anything else that looks cool. Lol. Maybe I will get lucky season, eh?
 
Not producing anything this year, but I do plan on purchasing a female lemonblast for my male bumblebee sometime soon.
 
For BPs I'm hoping on some black pastel hypos, albinos het pied and pieds het albino (I still really want an albino pied), and super black pastels 50% het hypo among others. I have some interesting projects with other species though.

As for new BPs, I'm hoping just to pick up something simple like a Het Red or Woma.
 
Shadera said:
Hoping to pick up a double het lavender snow male for my female, and that'll do it for me.
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Awww, lucky! ;)

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I adore white snakes, and this year I finally get my chance: Lesser x Mojave! The Mojave just ovulated, so the countdown's begun! The BEL will be Zinc if a male or Sodium if a female. Hee hee.

Also in the running for this year: G-stripes and hets, hets of a possible new line of Axanthic, and a bizarre double het combo I haven't seen anywhere else (Axanthic x het Red Axanthic).

I was planning on adding a Clown to my collection this year, but I doubt I'll be able to afford it just yet. Guess that'll give me something to look forward to next year.
 
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