• 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.
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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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Every freakin' time I'm on the verge of successfully diminishing my collection to just a few so I can focus more time and money on other pursuits, I see another that I just HAVE to have! And heck, there's space in the racks after all that winnowing! Maybe I could start up a new breeding project...hmmm... :rolleyes:

I'm NEVER going to have another horse if I can't learn to control my snake habit...but they're just so...pretty! ...and fascinating...and I want more and more! :yesnod:

Thank God I'm not into drugs or gambling, given my utter lack of self-control. Ball pythons, why can't I quit you?!? :eek: :rofl:
 
It's the way you are going about it...you're selling off the stuff that falls to the bottom when you jumble them all up in your head and give it a good shake. The best way is to just bite the bullet and sell them all at once (preferably racks and all). Put something else in that spot, and get out and enjoy yourself. It's finally summer!!
(Another option is to sell your best stuff first - with those gone, you'll want to just get rid of the lower ranks and be done with it....the problem is, it's too easy to falter at the moment of truth)
 
Yeah but even if you sell out you'll eventually see something in a pet store, reptile show, or online that will make you fall off the wagon!!! :p
 
You may as well forget getting out! Even if you do it will be temporarily and then when you get back you will be wishing you still had everything you sold. Once you step in this game your sanity and normalcy are done! LOL You are not alone, but I dont think you need anyone to tell you that.
 
I don't know why don't we start the meeting somewhere like BHB or NERD so its that much faster to admit we have a problem when we want EVERYTHING in the store LOL :rofl:
 
I wouldn't have a problem staying away from BPs. It's getting those few that I really like out of my hands that is the problem.
Hmmm....I wonder if I can insert some sort of clause into the purchase agreement that would prohibit buyers from posting pics of those snakes anywhere online. I could handle not having Mine or the keeperbee, as long as I didn't have to see pics (and comments about how wonderful they are) again.

Don't get too anxious, Willow....my recent discussion of selling off the BPs specifically allowed for keeping Mine (and a select few others) here where she belongs
 
Bob O'Brien said:
Ok Ill be the one to say it...

Every time I think Im out, they pull me back in.
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8D It's true, but it sounds like a line from a naughty video...


To the OP, I was just about to post a thread titled "How do I stop?!" before i saw this... I'm at 7 BP's, one Lucy Texas Ratsnake and counting. I also want some blood pythons 8( I'm running out of space to fit myself in my room...

dustinNMpythons said:
I don't know why don't we start the meeting somewhere like BHB or NERD so its that much faster to admit we have a problem when we want EVERYTHING in the store LOL :rofl:
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You are deviously brilliant. It's the best/worst idea I've ever heard. "Let's have an AA meeting in the best bar in town!" :D:yesnod::reddevil:

...I think we're doomed, is it bad that I like thinking about what kinds of morphs I'd like to be buried in?
 
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