To be perfectly honest, shipping adults is just too darn expensive when done retail. A box with a bunch of adults in it going across the country via overnight express costs quite a bit more than my standard shipping charge. After losing money on several shipments, I just figured that this wasn't going to work out.
Plus people want photos of them and detailed descriptions, so that puts extra strings attached to each sale that usually takes more time than I have available to put into it.
No, I don't make as much money wholesaling them, but taking a group of boxes to the airport and sending them ALL off at one time is infinitely easier on my nervous system. I think one of the deciding moments was when I sold a guy a big Miami Phase female that was an honest to goodness puppy dog, and he wanted to return it because he thought it was SO mellow that there was something wrong with it. So I took it back and started looking a LOT harder at some of the retail stuff I've been doing.....
Yeah, I tried the retailing bit with the adults in years passed, but nearly always I wound up with a bunch of lone males left over after all the females were picked clean, and then had trouble getting ANYTHING for the males, even from the wholesalers.
And to be honest, even selling them wholesale, I still get a pretty penny for them....
As for the unpaired adults this year, heck, I dunno. There are some animals there that I would REALLY like to see the results from. Might have to set up some sort of sleazy snake pimp motel for them........
Why don't you just raise the adult ship rates to what it actually costs? Broke as I am I would probably find some $ someplace! I haven't cashed in my retirement funds yet! 
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