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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.

Possible Shatter

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So I picked this little guy up from Outback Reptiles and just wanted to share some pictures of him to see what you all think! =) He came from Africa and I am hoping he is a shatter. He does not have a dark spot under his chin but the marbled pattern does bleed into the belly and he has an awful lot going on! I am wondering if i should play it safe and just breed him to a normal or take my chances and breed him to a few girls.

Thanks!
Amanda

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He looks interesting, I would breed him to a couple normal females and maybe some pastels. Look forward to updates to this thread.
 
Great pickup Amanda. Looks like a shatter to me but thats just my opinion (I held a few at Tinley this year)... and I agree with Jonas and Donald, breed him to a pastel, forget the normals. Shatters cause more damage on pastels.
 
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Great pickup Amanda. Looks like a shatter to me but thats just my opinion (I held a few at Tinley this year)... and I agree with Jonas and Donald, breed him to a pastel, forget the normals. Shatters cause more damage on pastels.

I held one also, I wanted to buy one last year but decided against it and now their price is even higher than before! The one I held had the spot under his chin but I did read an article about some not having the spot. Also, I didn't notice the orange in him until I took him outside for pictures! :thumbsup: AWESOME!!!

Pastel does seem to be a good idea, but I don't have one...

Keepin' my fingers crossed. Will keep you all updated!
 
Yeah prices did go up on shatters, I wonder why? This morph is a hit or miss combo wise. Nothing too spectacular but when you get a good one you get a good one like the xtreme shatters and the shatter BB Ralph just produced. Send him this way I'll put some pastel on him. :D
 
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