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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.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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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.

Bad Guy Andrew Kozera aka Madsnake BEWARE!! SCAMMER!!

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Most of the bearded dragon community know me as a breeder who is very customer service oriented, I always call, text, email whichever is best to let you know dragon is being sent as instructed and have never moved a shipping date over that I can recall only because I have been lucky, but if I had to I would be on that phone super quick. I ship many, many dragons and it is really not that hard to communicate with folks to let them know what is going on with their animal..it is mandatory. I know people make arrangements to be there to get the animal off the stoop and daily life has to be rearranged in some cases to be there to receive it. Now, I am involved in a purchase from a person not known in our dragon community and I am paying the price for it:

I purchased a dragon from Andrew Kozera aka Madsnake on 2/11/16 for $350.00 via paypal which he had me send as gift (I know I know)

He has had many excuses from 2/11/16 to 3/21/16 and some of the weather excuses were valid, however, there were quite a few nights above 30 degrees and I ship continually and safely into 30 degrees, but excuses where I see his weather is fine to ship do not make sense.

Finally on 3/21/16 he says he will ship dragon, but dragon did not arrive. 3/22/16 he says he will ship for a 3/23 delivery but dragon does not arrive. 3/23/16 dragon did not arrive and he says he will ship dragon out for a 3/24/16 delivery....today I get more excuses of how he can not answer his phone and to call Kristian (who is Kristian??) and a snapshot of a USPS 2 day with a tracking number that does not pull up. He did not get my permission to send it 2 day with a tab of $42 (from FL to NY it is only $27 priority overnight anyhow so that is odd) as most customers will need to make arrangements to be available and I do not ship animals two day or would EVER receive them 2 day knowingly. I was told he was coming fedex yesterday. I have asked for a refund or to send this lizard. This is beyond crazy.

I believe this not my tracking number and he did not send lizard. This was sent to shut me up for another day. He spent the money and possibly does not have the lizard and this is part of a scam.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO THIS PERSON!!!!
 

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The USPS tracking number shows it's in West Palm Beach, Florida today.

Date & Time
Status of Item
Location
March 24, 2016 , 8:17 am
Arrived at USPS Destination Facility
WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33416

Your item arrived at our WEST PALM BEACH, FL 33416 destination facility on March 24, 2016 at 8:17 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.

March 23, 2016 , 7:02 pm
Arrived at USPS Origin Facility
WHITE PLAINS, NY 10610
March 23, 2016 , 5:01 pm
Departed Post Office
SOMERS, NY 10589
March 23, 2016 , 4:56 pm
Acceptance
SOMERS, NY 10589

Hopefully the dragon will arrive healthy, and today!

GOOD LUCK!

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
Thanks Lynn, still can't pull up the tracking number it is saying "invalid". At any rate, I would not do business with him again....the lack of communication and not shipping when promised are enough stress that I can not say anything positive about this transaction. The excuses and promises via text and email are very unprofessional and ill represent a reptile business owner.
 
draggintails said:
Thanks Lynn, still can't pull up the tracking number it is saying "invalid". At any rate, I would not do business with him again....the lack of communication and not shipping when promised are enough stress that I can not say anything positive about this transaction. The excuses and promises via text and email are very unprofessional and ill represent a reptile business owner.
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Tammy,
The tracking # is a Postal tracking #, NOT FedEx......

Go to www.usps.com

Again, the best of luck to you, & the dragon.

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
draggintails said:
Thanks Lynn, still can't pull up the tracking number it is saying "invalid". At any rate, I would not do business with him again....the lack of communication and not shipping when promised are enough stress that I can not say anything positive about this transaction. The excuses and promises via text and email are very unprofessional and ill represent a reptile business owner.
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You take this

ek755660364us

and put it into the search field here

https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input

and either click "Find" or press enter.

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No disagreement regarding the serial shipping date slippage, poor communication, or the incorrect method being used here, though.

I hope you can find the time to do what I suggested last time.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=569244
 
Nickolas,

Thanks :) I did see your request for me to post communications online and I agree with that. Hoping it will not come to that, but will do what you suggest if it does. Again, I appreciate your reply Nickolas.

Tammy
 
Sure thing. It is worth doing in most cases since it lets people directly observe the words of both parties rather than take one party's account of both parties' words. Not to doubt anyone or anything like that. It simply lays it all out for unbiased evaluation by a reader or audience.
 
MCMB-2 said:
I wasn't aware USPS did live animal shipments. Apparently they didn't know they did either :p
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I thought they did for lizards, not snakes.

At any rate tracking shows the package was signed for by "T Aldrich" at 12:22 pm EST today. Hopefully it's ok after being in transit for three days.
 
MCMB-2 said:
I wasn't aware USPS did live animal shipments. Apparently they didn't know they did either :p
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http://pe.usps.gov/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
"526.6 Small, Harmless, Cold–Blooded Animals
Small, harmless, cold–blooded animals, except for snakes, turtles, and turtle eggs, are mailable only when they meet certain requirements."

In the OP's case, they should have been informed that the seller was using USPS and I would never recommend 2-day. The seller should always get an agreement with the buyer about shipping method.
I hope the dragon arrived safe and sound.
 
Ah ok, thank you to both of you for clarifying (I learned something today :D). But yea, 2-day shipping shouldn't ever be done with live in my opinion.
 
poor dragon, in the mail for several days? that's not good....I hope he arrives in good condition.
 
draggintails said:
I believe this not my tracking number and he did not send lizard. This was sent to shut me up for another day. He spent the money and possibly does not have the lizard and this is part of a scam.

DO NOT SEND MONEY TO THIS PERSON!!!!
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Tammy, you need to come back and update your thread. You called him a scammer while it looks like the mistake was yours for looking in the wrong place for tracking.This thread is here to stay and right now it looks like you jumped the gun IMO.
 
Tracking does show it was indeed delivered and signed for by Tammy on March 25th.
I would like to have seen the communications, was it agreed to be shipped 2 day USPS?
And TBH the very first pic showing tracking also shows it was USPS so no excuses for thinking it was Fedex at all.

So did the dragon arrive safely after its travels?
Was it agreed by both parties to be a 2 day USPS shipment?

Think we need some more light shed on this before anybody could decide who truly is the "bad guy" here
 
draggintails said:
I purchased a dragon from Andrew Kozera aka Madsnake on 2/11/16 for $350.00 via paypal which he had me send as gift (I know I know)
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That's your first mistake...which you acknowledge, but with you actually being in the industry, you should know better.

Black Adder said:
And TBH the very first pic showing tracking also shows it was USPS so no excuses for thinking it was Fedex at all.
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She didn't, she stated before that:

draggintails said:
I do not ship animals two day or would EVER receive them 2 day knowingly. I was told he was coming fedex yesterday.
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Black Adder said:
Tracking does show it was indeed delivered and signed for by Tammy on March 25th.
I would like to have seen the communications, was it agreed to be shipped 2 day USPS?

So did the dragon arrive safely after its travels?
Was it agreed by both parties to be a 2 day USPS shipment?

Think we need some more light shed on this before anybody could decide who truly is the "bad guy" here
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While I have yet to track the package, you have said that it shows as delivered and signed for by Tammy. (I'm just being lazy and don't want to go do extra searching. So I'm going by what you've said in your post.) According to her previous statement in her first post, she said that he did not have her permission to send it USPS or 2 day:

draggintails said:
USPS 2 day with a tracking number that does not pull up. He did not get my permission to send it 2 day
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Either way, I think this is a screwed up situation, because it seems as though she was given the run around for a bit, then was sent the dragon, but not with the shipping method that she requested. So while I still think this person deserves a bad guy thread, I don't think it's because he was a scammer. Unless Tammy comes back and gives extra details. (Such as if she received an empty box or the correct dragon.) Until such time, the person should get a bad guy label for sending an animal out in a cruddy manner and possibly endangering the life of the dragon.

But unless Tammy comes back, I guess we won't know the outcome or the communication that lead to such outcome... :shrug01:
 
Posting in this thread to come back to see the results from Tammy. I too bought a dragon from Madsnake and pending a response from him about it. It's been about a month now.
 
Sorry for not responding. Yes dragon arrived after being in mail 2 days, he is ok, another thing is that I do believe his picture in the fauna ad (the bright yellow dragon) was edited because this is the dragon received (the orange base tone dragon in my hand).

David: I did not look in the wrong place for tracking, I went to USPS and for some reason it popped up on my screen as invalid..that was surely strange. I paid for Fedex and was told he was coming in Fedex. He was sent USPS without my permission, you can't do that to someone's lizard without asking them...I couldn't imagine doing something like that with someone's animal. Not to mention the stress it puts the customer in.

I am very upset with this whole deal. I did not even contact Andrew back about picture not being accurate. I am finished with it.
 

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Glad he got there in one piece! I agree, when you pay for FedEx and are told it will be FedEx, for the seller to instead 2 day mail the lizard to you, that is not acceptable.
 
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