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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.

Allen from Reptile Kingdom, in New Jersey, Beware

cyberfrog said:
Difference between self importance and self defense Ed, but thanks for playing. We have a copy of the BOI Drama home game for you....

I seriously don't think of myself as in any way important to anything involving this site. If i never came back after this post, i highly doubt anyone would even notice. i will not have my honesty and integrity attacked so some idiot can feel good about himself.


A hypocrite is a hypocrite. Like you said, the OP got paid. Does that change the fact that Allen has sent out a number of bad checks? It turned out good in the end, but you can't seem to grasp the fact that your prediction means squat in the face of piss poor ethics. If you believe that your prediction had anything to do with Allens decision, then you can feel good about yourself can't you idiot?
 
Again, as before, I don't condone bouncing a check to anyone, which why I don't write them or take them in this business. I do understand as a self employed induvidual checks do bounce and in your an the other cases it may or may not be intentional. I don't know Allen well enough to say so.

It's important that you keep track of what you say Adam, otherwise you embarass yourself in a thread that should have been done when Chris "got paid", ie. several pages ago. Your main beef seems to be that people [or the one person] who said Allen was a "scumbag" for "writing bad checks" don't "know anything" about Allen, but "hide behind" a keyboard and write derogatory stuff to feel "good" about themselves, right?

Well let me paint you a more succinct picture. A guy writes a bad check, and then stops communicating with a customer for a few days/weeks. He brings it up in the BOI [however inappropriately], and people start flaming the vendor, because HE HAS WRITTEN MORE THAN ONE BAD CHECK IN THE PAST, as well as LIED ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHECK'S CONTENTS, integral things like the payee's home address -- to delay payment because he didn't have. Someone comes on and calls the vendor out on his garbage he pulled, and you don't think he "knows anything". Weeks later, the customer gets his payment after a 37 thread on the BOI is manifested.

Does it sound familiar? It should, because that's what happened here. Except one part, where I left out that YOU Adam are a hypocrite, and continue to call the people that potentially helped pressure Allen to get those payments to Chris sooner than later (this is a rare case, and I'm actually happy it happened for once) "keyboard warriors" and people who "hide behind keyboards". You belittled the debt, because getting money whenever you get it is just as good as getting the money when you wanted, or it is in your world.

And how exactly are we "hid[ing] behind [our] keyboards?" Should I call you over the phone, or make hotel reservations in your city everytime I make a post directly related to you? Because I'll tell you one thing, I don't have the time or money for those arrangements. Apparently people who call you on your stupid, hypocritical postings are "hiding", but people who are kind and nice to you, aren't "hiding" for some reason. I don't get it. I guess selective morality makes sense when it fits your argument!

Face it Adam -- if we reserved the BOI threads to people who only directly knew the vendor or the customer in those situations, the threads would be no more than three posts long and nothing would get done. Even if you don't think the harsh people on here got things rolling for Chris, it at least reminded Allen that there are plenty of people who are keeping their eyes on his unprofessional behaviour.
 
I am only going to respond on one point of your post which is this: If you really think this site had anything to do with the payment of the person in question you really should file down that cranial ridge and stop your knuckles from dragging the ground before you post again. With that I rest my case on this whole scenario. Anyone who wants to have a real human conversation can feel free to do so any time.
 
Common sense=
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cyberfrog said:
Common sense=
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If common sense is so common, how come you haven't got any? Posting pictures of your credentials won't change it.
 
i think this thread did have an influence on allens discission. he stated it bothered him to me. spawn and mindy thanks for all the intelligent post. allot of the others...... you to monkeywrench, good lookin out. cant we all just get along.... :D :D :D :D :D :reddevil: :reddevil:
 
Meh,

Whatever Allen said, wether he feels bad about it or not he is still acting the same way: I feel that he has ripped me off of over $1400.00 and now refuses to respond to attempts at contact reguarding the matter.

All in all if Allen does pay me the money he owes me, as a result of him dragging his feet, he has stolen christmas from my children, has forced me to sell of animals I wanted to keep, in order to bulk my animals for winter (barely) and as it stands now, it will take more money for mice that I dont have to be able to breed this year. In that respect it is my opinion that Allen is a scammer and thief.
 
I guess i will put in my two cents here since once again this involves me. Michael i appologize for taking so long to get you paid, however i intend to pay you as quickly as i possibly can. I have been burned many times over the past year, i am sure as a direct result of the floundering economy which has effected myself terribly as well. That is why i have been unable to get you paid. I did not sell your animals and keep the money for myself to make your suffer, in fact i still have most of them for sale but have not had buyers for them. Is it right for me to not have paid you? Absolutely not, however i have not been able to generate enough sales to make that happen, and as i said i have been burned more in the last year than ever in the history of my business. Also to address another point of this thread, do i write bad checks. Yes i have written bad checks, however not on purpose as funds were there when i wrote the check but due to checks bouncing on me caused those checks to bounce. I have never intentionally written a "HOT" check for the record. I hope i can further work this out with Michael because as i said, i never intended to not pay him.
 
Allen, you simply shouldn't have ordered the animals if you didn't have the funds to pay for them. That's bad business.

Your company is listed as a vendor at the Reading show tomorrow, yet you haven't paid for animals you're selling? I know you do Hamburg and Larry's shows, yet you don't have the money to pay this man his money?

Come on...
 
Lost money as well from Allen over a dead snake

I purchased a baby rainbow boa from Allen at the white plains show. In a week it died. I contacted him and he stated he sold it for someone and that he would speak to them about reimbursing the money. He kept saying he would be at the next show and I could talk to him directly. Well what a surprise he never shows up when he is to be there so Im out the snake and the money I spent. This has been going on for a year now. The snake was cared for properly in that week I had it before it died. I have bought from him before and recomended him but since that loss I will never buy or recomend him again unless he makes good on it.

Allen if you ever want to make good on that snake and return my money I spent for her I would gladly accept it!! Would change my thoughts on your animals. Send me an email if you want to refund the money. your "friend" if he does exist mad you look bad. It was an animal on your table so it was your responsibility.

Chris
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Triple Moons, in response to your post

"Allen, you simply shouldn't have ordered the animals if you didn't have the funds to pay for them. That's bad business. "

I in fact had the money to pay for the animals and a customer i sold animals to in the amount of somewhere around $2500 bounced a check on me that was never made good on. This is what i have been going through for the past year with this economy, i have lost almost $10k from people not paying me. Stores going out of business and leaving open invoices with no one to pay for them. Am i the only one struggling with the economy? By the sound of your post you act as though i am a millonaire from this business and i am just trying to not pay the guy. That is not the case, no one can understand my financial situation except for me. If i were able to recoup the money lost that i had when i ordered the milk snakes from Michael we would not even be having this conversation.

Chris, whether you would like to believe it or not, the rainbows that were on my table at that show were not mine, i collected no money from them, they were my friends. He will be at the show next week if you would like to talk to him face to face. His name is Jim. I will encourage him to take care of you, but in the case of this issue there is no reason to pile on, you didn't buy the snake from me, in fact he was the one that sold it directly to you even though he was behind my table.
 
Allen,

I have heard that he will be at the show every time I question you about it then I talk to you at the show and he is never there. So it is a waste of my time to do that. Plus I cannot make it to this show any way. Easier for him to get the refund back to me. I take paypal. Even if it wasnt an animal of yours which I believe it was not yours it was still on your table so like I said it makes you look bad when its not made good on. For the sake of how you do business it should have been made good on and he pressured by you for him to fix it. I have bought many animals from your table but dont want to now in case this happens again. If he wants to make good on it give him my email and have him contact me. Even if it was him it makes you look bad as it was your table.

Chris
 
Allen,

I have heard that he will be at the show every time I question you about it then I talk to you at the show and he is never there. So it is a waste of my time to do that. Plus I cannot make it to this show any way. Easier for him to get the refund back to me. I take paypal. Even if it wasnt an animal of yours which I believe it was not yours it was still on your table so like I said it makes you look bad when its not made good on. For the sake of how you do business it should have been made good on and he pressured by you for him to fix it. I have bought many animals from your table but dont want to now in case this happens again. If he wants to make good on it give him my email and have him contact me. Even if it was him it makes you look bad as it was your table.

Chris

I guess i will put in my two cents here since once again this involves me. Michael i appologize for taking so long to get you paid, however i intend to pay you as quickly as i possibly can. I have been burned many times over the past year, i am sure as a direct result of the floundering economy which has effected myself terribly as well. That is why i have been unable to get you paid. I did not sell your animals and keep the money for myself to make your suffer, in fact i still have most of them for sale but have not had buyers for them. Is it right for me to not have paid you? Absolutely not, however i have not been able to generate enough sales to make that happen, and as i said i have been burned more in the last year than ever in the history of my business. Also to address another point of this thread, do i write bad checks. Yes i have written bad checks, however not on purpose as funds were there when i wrote the check but due to checks bouncing on me caused those checks to bounce. I have never intentionally written a "HOT" check for the record. I hope i can further work this out with Michael because as i said, i never intended to not pay him.

You have been burned and could not pay for them in a years time, but you can buy dragons from me all spring and summer from the reptile show in cash??? and that wasnt a small bank roll you pulled outta your pocket either homie
 
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