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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.

Anyone dealt with Boca Reptiles?

The Offer!

Since this thread has come back into the light, I'll make public, the agreement I made with Sal.

I had the "pleasure" {insert sarcasm here} to meet Mr. Tornambene at the Tampa Show earlier this month.
He was upset with the fact that the domain bocareptiles.com points to this thread. After some spirited conversation, I made him the following offer:

If Sal could convince just half of the people who have posted bad experiences with him on this thread, to post here that they have been properly compensated, I would give him the domain bocareptiles.com free of charge.

At his point, it looks as though Sal thought it would just be easier to change the name of his company.

Sal, my offer still stands - the ball is in your court.
 
Mike, although that was a very noble offer, look at who you made the offer to. :rofl:
He makes his living ripping people off. It's just too easy to change the name AGAIN and "try" and start over. The only bad part is that 80% of all herpers know of him and what he will do to screw a person over.
 
Yes, Dan.... That's the guarantee that *I* wrote for MY company, and since Sal's ex-wife did my website, I let them copy it for theirs....
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Fair enough explanation Neil. You wrote it and You should be the only one using it. Can’t Sal come with his own TOS? Why do they have to be yours word by word? You want to keep befriending Sal, fine that’s none of my business, but you better make it yours.

Have you seen his BREEDER'S page??.... He has got some GORGEOUS animals!!.... Half of his animals aren't even up there yet.... Next year, you will see some of the most spectacular animals coming out of Boca Morphs.... even I'M very impressed with the quality!!....
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In all honesty I haven’t. It doesn’t really matter what kind of animals he has if they were at least partially funded with money from people that never received their compensation. Not that he will be thrilled about it but for example Mark Westberg among others own “shares” of those animals. Mike Greathouse gave him the chance for compensating not all but half of the individuals he owes in exchange for rights to his web page, and he decides not to do it. What is that telling you? You can’t start running a respectable business by not making good on your debts. It doesn’t matter how “GORGEOUS” his animals are going to be. They are not going to be his until he pays for them. Do you honestly think people will forget?

Thanks.
 
Mike Greathouse said:
Since this thread has come back into the light, I'll make public, the agreement I made with Sal.

I had the "pleasure" {insert sarcasm here} to meet Mr. Tornambene at the Tampa Show earlier this month.
He was upset with the fact that the domain bocareptiles.com points to this thread. After some spirited conversation, I made him the following offer:

If Sal could convince just half of the people who have posted bad experiences with him on this thread, to post here that they have been properly compensated, I would give him the domain bocareptiles.com free of charge.

At his point, it looks as though Sal thought it would just be easier to change the name of his company.

Sal, my offer still stands - the ball is in your court.
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I happen to have been standing about three feet away when Mike and Sal were having that "spirited" conversayion. I haven't had so much fun since my first snake egg hatched
 
Yes, Dennis run far far away! i would be willing to bet that half of the "breeders" on his page do not belong to him, nor do the pics.
 
Great morphs? Put a diamond necklace on a pig, and it's a pig with a nice necklace. Give Sal great animals and he's Sal with great animals. No thanks.
 
Actually

Guys.... A friend of mine bought a Hypo of his and she is a beauty.... Still alive and healthy today.... Geee I hate to bring this up again ;)
 
Rofl

Even if Sal tried to rip off my buddy, My buddy knows where he lives and would rip off his head in return.... Good Job Andrew! :hehe:
 
Jacob,

If your friend bought something let your friend come and post. Your post is worthless hearsay.
 
Ok...

Maybe if he didn't have to pay to post 1 dam post.... YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME call him and ask him for yourself!!! 1-574-276-4551 Andrew is who bought him.... I quote him "I'm not gonna pay to listen to others bitch and back each other up who's never bought anything from him". "as well as why would I go where I post something at an expense rather than post something for free at reptibid or kingsnake.com???" Call him and ask him... Congrats to both of you because reputation has no expense worth to 10 dollars I don't really care all you do is bitch and bitch and call each other names like little babys.... No wonder I haven't come here in a long ass time..... I found the reason why..... You can't back the voice of a friend without having to pay for it in the end....
 
Whos crying like a little baby? :bawling: I guess since you say Sal sold your buddy a great snake we should all assume that he has beacome a great guy? I would rather stick hot pokers in my eyes.
 
:rofl: :rofl: And I was lucky enough to get a nasty PM from Jacob. Maybe he is Sal? At least he didn't threaten to pull out his badge and gun and arrest me this time. :rofl: :rofl:
 
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Right... I'm not saying Sal is a good guy totally but my buddy did get that sanke from him..... and no I'm not Sal so yall can just SHHH... All I'm sayin is my buddy bought a snake from Sal... Once he told me where and who he got it from I decided to look on here to see what good or bad things were posted on him.... I had no idea what he did in the past and I really could give a rats a$$ what others think, after a good deal has been said and done its a good deal.
 
clueless said:
I had no idea what he did in the past and I really could give a rats a$$ what others think, after a good deal has been said and done its a good deal.
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That's what is sad about the reptile world. Every once in a while someone will deal with a bad guy and get a decent animal or go through a transaction that turns out okay, then even if it is the exception rather than the rule, people say stuff like that. They completly disregard that a seller is a thief, scumbag, poor business person, someone who missrepresents animals, or whatever bad guy catagory they are in, just because they got something out of it.

You never see a post where someone says.."wow, I posted this good deal because I had not know about the guy, but now that it has been brought to my attention, I am really sorry that I dealt with the person (even though I did get a good deal), and I'm sorry for all you people who got ripped off or had bad deals"
it's always "well, I got a good deal, so all you hundreds of people must be full of doo-doo" or "I got a good deal, so I could give a rats butt about all you people who did get burned, even though we are all in the same great reptile hobby" or "I know so and so, and when I go to his house to buy an animal, it is always very good quality and I never get ripped off, so I don't believe you guys who live on the other side of the country when you say so and so sent you bad animals or ripped you off"
It's the reason why people can do things like send dead animals throught the mail, or sell fake hets, etc, be exposed (and proved out) and still continue to sell.

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To the person (or hopefully persons) that got the PM with the bonafied threats........... I would pursue them. I highly doubt that this guy is a police officer. He is apparently 19? so if he is a police officer he must still be in a probationary period, and in this day and age of police scrutiny, sending threats like that will probably get you fired in a heartbeat. If he is not a police officer, maybe they can bust him for claiming to be one. That's probably the more likely, I find it very unbelievable that a Police Officer would make such juvenile remarks (sure there are bad apples, but usually the "wanna see my badge" type comments come from people who got one of those plastic ones in the toy department)
 
Cry Cry Cry

Go ahead persue me Training is almost up only takes 9 months to graduate.... Lets see if you can count.... AH! The number of today is 9! Personally I'd buy from Sal... I'd be cautious at first but who wouldn't... Too bad I'm buying a Hypo already....
 
reptilebreeder said:
To the person (or hopefully persons) that got the PM with the bonafied threats........... I would pursue them. I highly doubt that this guy is a police officer. He is apparently 19? so if he is a police officer he must still be in a probationary period, and in this day and age of police scrutiny, sending threats like that will probably get you fired in a heartbeat. If he is not a police officer, maybe they can bust him for claiming to be one. That's probably the more likely, I find it very unbelievable that a Police Officer would make such juvenile remarks (sure there are bad apples, but usually the "wanna see my badge" type comments come from people who got one of those plastic ones in the toy department)
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I called the Indiana State Police after receiving a threatening e-mail through this system and they had no record of a Jacob Cowe. They had no comprehensive listing of officers of local police departments. They suggested that I file a report with my local police but I have not (as yet). Maybe Jacob will be stupid enough to reveal where he actually is. Since he says he is in "training" (and here I thought dogs were trained and people were educated but hey, for Jacob training may be more applicable) I may just call the state police in Indiana again and see if they can track him down.

For the record, here is what he said in an e-mail sent through this site on 4/4/2005. Again, I apologize for the language but it is quoted verbatim.
STFU .. I came here to find out about someone.... I don't need your **** so why don't you come over to my house so I can shove my foot up your ass.... Ok then you wouldn't want to do that to a cop so now would you... Want me to show you my badge????

Stop being a little ass hole and shut the hell up already...
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Yes, I'm sure we all feel "safe" with Jacob out there "protecting" us. Another bully with a gun and a badge, if it is so.
 
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