Just a FYI, this sale of adults and subadults is going to be a bit different from how I did things previously on my shopping cart program.
Shipping larger snakes is a whole different ball of wax from shipping babies.
I weighed a sampling of adults and figure that we are talking about a half a pound per animal. I then did some testing on FedEx's shipping calculator to see what the cost increase would be for each animal in a typical shipment. Although the increases weren't exactly linear (actually the increase per pound was not really too logical....), I saw that it approximated $5 per pound in increased shipping costs throughout most of the reasonable range I would be expecting. Of course, once the cost went over $120, then it would become more cost effective (but perhaps not all that convenient) for a buyer to use Delta Airlines shipping instead. I am not even taking into account the additional expense of a cloth bag for each animal, which should be taken into account, but I am trying to not over complicate this process. But in any event just based on the figures I saw, I am adding $2.50 per animal to the base shipping price. Sorry, but I have to do it this way to keep from losing my butt on shipping costs. Shipping larger and heavier animals is just going to be rather expensive to do.
Secondly, I am not selling any of these specifically in pairs. Males and females will just be priced and sold separately. In the past I tried to encourage sales of pairs when selling babies, but my guess is that adult females will be in much greater demand, and I am pricing them accordingly, expecting to have a bunch of lone males left over when the dust settles. They will just be harder to move, which means that I may have to eventually bulk them out at much reduced prices, so the prices on the females need to reflect this fact of life.
Thirdly, I am going to try to prevent having a bunch of left over shipping supplies when everything is finally gone from here. As such, there may be some brief periods where I have run out of boxes and/or bags, and have to delay shipping until I can get a new batch ordered and delivered here. In the past I would just order a LOT of this stuff (which is why my porch has become a storage area for all this crap), with the knowledge that I would use it all eventually anyway. Such is not the case now, so I need to keep that all down to the bare minimum.
Of course, everything will be first come, first served, based on the order actually being PAID for.
And I hope anyone looking at that HUGE list of animals being sold will fully realize that taking pics of them all is just not even a remote possibility. It would take me forever and a day to do so, and quite honestly, I have no intention (much less enough stamina) to do something like that.
Everything has been taken off of feed as of last week and the temps will be dropped to brumation levels on October 1. The mouse colony is in the process of being killed off right now.
I am on my next to last page of the adults/subadults to have that all completed on my shopping cart program. With any luck I may have this done tonight. But darn this is tedious........ :crazy01:
But yeah, rounding third now and heading for home plate..............
) I was just thinking that a trip to Florida some weekend sounded nice. I'd actually probably spend the same as paying for shipping, but it would potentially be more fun. Paying before driving makes good sense. 
