• 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.
  • 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 BRIEN KLIEN

Utta said:
1st, you've made my "do not sell anything to" list. You started this thread without even having the animals? Are you kidding me?! What if you got perfect condition animals? Hell, we don't even know if there as bad as you say they are. And excuse me for not taking your word on it :rolleyes:
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Yeah she is a full on bad buyer at this point..I dont breed,but she would be on the "do not sell to list" and also made the "do not buy from list"..I am thinking she must be very young...As she could go on her "good guy" thread to say thanks,but could not come on this one to answer the questions asked of her..I will take that to her good guy thread now..
 
Iraqvet said:
Yeah she is a full on bad buyer at this point..I dont breed,but she would be on the "do not sell to list" and also made the "do not buy from list"..I am thinking she must be very young...As she could go on her "good guy" thread to say thanks,but could not come on this one to answer the questions asked of her..I will take that to her good guy thread now..
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Well Shelby, your viewing this thread... care to answer Clay's question?
 
Utta said:
Well Shelby, your viewing this thread... care to answer Clay's question?
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Or anyone else's for that matter? Do you have any proof that the turtles are sexed as you claim? And if they're all juvi's, how are you so certain of their sex?
 
5 of the EBT's I sent her are in the pic in the ad that I currently have up on the turt's page. The .1 that I sent her was not in the pic.

I ask: Do they look like juvi's? Anyone experienced with EBT's should be able to answer that.

Brian
 
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181192

By the way: She would never release them into the wild, her greedy personality would not let her. That was more sympathy grubbing tactics.

At lunch with the family I asked my wife if it was possible that part of her motivation in all this was to simply to try to get more unsuspecting fauna members on her side somehow......still processing that one.

I wish that she would stop saying that she had a problem with WC, when she already admitted that in her garter add she basically asked for WC. I don't see how it could go both ways.

Brian
 
To the OP: I still don't understand how his profit margin is your business. You state that you don't mind that they're wild caught but it bothers you that he did this for 100% profit. Is he supposed to go out and do this so he can send them to you for free???

I must say again... Grow up.
 
Shelby is now stalking Brian's classifieds and leaving inappropriate messages:

" 06-03-2010, 06:57 PM #2
ALLIN1
S&J REPTILES


Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: NJ
Posts: 64
Name : shelby perkins

Trader Rating: (1) No chips and shell damage thats a lie i personally know you ripped me off.
 
lucille said:
Shelby is now stalking Brian's classifieds and leaving inappropriate messages:

" 06-03-2010, 06:57 PM #2
ALLIN1
S&J REPTILES


Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: NJ
Posts: 64
Name : shelby perkins

Trader Rating: (1) No chips and shell damage thats a lie i personally know you ripped me off.
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We already know how that'll workout for her! :dgrin:
 
BRIAN KLEIN you can go fuck yourself you asshole i hope you get hit by a car while running in the street for 1 of your wc turtles your a scumbag and a loser why dont you go and get a job and support your family you loser.You should totally be ashamed of yourself and let it be know i will find all your adds on any site and expose you yopu are a fraud and a liar and an ASSHOLE. YTOU can go eat a dick you you fucking HOMO.
 
I am glad to see she got banned for her comments..That was way overboard...No one will forget that anytime soon and she is gonna see an impact on her businness from that..
 
ALLIN1 said:
BRIAN KLEIN you can go fuck yourself you asshole i hope you get hit by a car while running in the street for 1 of your wc turtles your a scumbag and a loser why dont you go and get a job and support your family you loser.You should totally be ashamed of yourself and let it be know i will find all your adds on any site and expose you yopu are a fraud and a liar and an ASSHOLE. YTOU can go eat a dick you you fucking HOMO.
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clASSy:rofl:
 
Brian, while I absolutely do not condone or appreciate capture of native wildlife for sale or profit; I prefer to see the wildlife left in the wild; I do see you had some nice specimens in your ad. Did you by chance also take shots of their plastrons to show gender? If so, could you post them also?

Despite her claim in the other thread, I personally don't believe for one minute Shelby released the turts she received from you and I also don't believe you ripped her off - she's obviously a tad (lol) over-reactive and seems more interested in her own agenda & quick trades than building a reputable and trustworthy business. Yeah, a real class act. :rofl:
 
Oh my gosh. I am blown away.
In my original reply to her explosive email to me I immediately thought to myself,"slow down," so that is how I opened my reply to her.

At that time even though we both agreed on the trade details I was willing to do whatever it took to make her happy but as it developed more and more I immediately could sense that it was more about her wanting to get more for less. That is when I realized that nothing was going to make her happy. I lived up to my end of the deal, that was all I was responsible for.

Throughout this whole ordeal I have been forthcoming and open about my actions.
That is all I can do. I even told my wife today when she was glaring at me for being at the computer for so long, that if the deal would have went off without Shelby over reacting that protocol would require that I thank her for the trade, which is what I did. Even though she was still in denial it was the right thing to do.

In my old age I have been forgiving people that do me wrong and taking inventory of my own actions. I can't carry the hate, it brings me down. All I can say is that it is truly amazing how Universal Mind works. All of you saw right through the smoke and mirrors. Amazing! She basically did it all for me, I just provided the facts.

Like I said earlier I have learned a lot in the last 24hrs.

Brian
 
Unfortunately I had not taken pictures of the plastrons.
All I can say is that I have been forthcoming and I know for a fact that I sent her what she asked for. 2.3.1. No doubt about it.
I feel bad for the EBT's being in her care. Even though the Leos are beautiful there temperment is extremely flighty which is not how my leo acts, mine is more of a pet than an egg laying machine.

Oh well to each his own. It is not a slam more of an observation. I actually feel bad about talking about her and her not being able to respond so I will end it here unless anyone else has a direct question that I can answer.

Brian Klein
 
brianklein said:
Is it OK to delete and repost my ad to get her nastiness off my ad?

Brian
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Why would you want to??? I understand get the nastiness off your ads but at the same time let everybody see how she is. Of course she's banned now, but still. More and more people are showing that it's just as easy to get onto a "Don't sell to" list as it is to be on a "Don't buy from" list.
 
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