• 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.

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Let me start by saying i have too much faith in humanity, and this was a dumb mistake.

I take in turtles and torts needing new homes. If i can help i always will.

Well, someone in Texas reached out to me looking to rehome 2 female eastern hermanns tortoise.

They explained that they were in the process of moving and needed to get rid of them.
for just $50.

Why not? Not a huge amount of money, but still money. The guy claims to have three kids and busy schedule. He went on; engaging consistently with me about the state of the world and his daily tasks.

Didn't think much of it, and like an idiot I didn't press for enough images as I didn't care about the animals condition as they were "Rescues" and everyone goes into quarantine. He kept saying he'd send over the tracking info, but tip-toed around it each time I'd ask.

This guy literally spoke with me until the moment the torts were supposed to arrive.

I live where FedEx headquarters are, so overnight packages always arrive promptly by 7 am. Then I put two and two together...

His response went from every 2 seconds to complete silence. I just don't understand putting so much theatrical energy into talking to me about dogs, kids, and the state of the world for $50, you'd think I'd just given him $10k😂. If I were a scammer, I'd take my cash and *crickets*

Well, I can't get my cash back, but i learned a valuable lesson. No hard feelings as some people are just desperate(still no excuse),but here's his info. Feel free to warn others.
 

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Talked to this dude for like a week setting up a deal sent 600 he went ghost on me so I went to cashapp support to try and get my money back . Which I did and he then texted me trying to assure me he wasn’t a scam . He almost got me luckily cashapp refunded my money . Same phone number same cashapp and everything that you have posted . He told me his name was Brad Wilkinson though.
 
E&K exotics12 said:
Talked to this dude for like a week setting up a deal sent 600 he went ghost on me so I went to cashapp support to try and get my money back . Which I did and he then texted me trying to assure me he wasn’t a scam . He almost got me luckily cashapp refunded my money . Same phone number same cashapp and everything that you have posted . He told me his name was Brad Wilkinson though.
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Yep, that's him. I plan on reaching out to admin and those with larger platforms to spread the word about him.

He also has another email. Seems we have a serial scammer. It be best to request images with your name and date on a sheet of paper moving forward.
 
DoubleD1996 said:
Let me start by saying i have too much faith in humanity, and this was a dumb mistake.

I take in turtles and torts needing new homes. If i can help i always will.

Well, someone in Texas reached out to me looking to rehome 2 female eastern hermanns tortoise.

They explained that they were in the process of moving and needed to get rid of them.
for just $50.

Why not? Not a huge amount of money, but still money. The guy claims to have three kids and busy schedule. He went on; engaging consistently with me about the state of the world and his daily tasks.

Didn't think much of it, and like an idiot I didn't press for enough images as I didn't care about the animals condition as they were "Rescues" and everyone goes into quarantine. He kept saying he'd send over the tracking info, but tip-toed around it each time I'd ask.

This guy literally spoke with me until the moment the torts were supposed to arrive.

I live where FedEx headquarters are, so overnight packages always arrive promptly by 7 am. Then I put two and two together...

His response went from every 2 seconds to complete silence. I just don't understand putting so much theatrical energy into talking to me about dogs, kids, and the state of the world for $50, you'd think I'd just given him $10k😂. If I were a scammer, I'd take my cash and *crickets*

Well, I can't get my cash back, but i learned a valuable lesson. No hard feelings as some people are just desperate(still no excuse),but here's his info. Feel free to warn others.
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Hey dude, just don't send money via zelle. This whole country is turning into a scam fest. Zelle is the worst thing to happen for merchant buyer relationships. Just use paypal and pay via credit card. If they insist on zelle, I would highly consider it being a scam. BTW, I lost faith in humanity in people in this country long before you first mentioned this and I rest my case with this feeling.
 
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