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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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Brande Jolley is new in the reptile world and granted we all have room for mistakes etc. However, after a deal that I was working with her on and several attempts to make this work - I didn't want to lose too much in the deal with shipping etc. There were some circumstances over the past 4 weeks that made me weary of this deal.

As of tonight - the deal has been terminated and at this point I want to notify others of her just in case you get into a long process of going nowhere. I have a GOOD feeling this is happening to another breeder - but that is my own opinion.

She is new and needs to learn the dealings when it comes to this - not jump head first and take on the world and over extend herself. Especially when she really has no clue on what it is she wants to do... Just FYI on her if you do come in passing or dealings with her.

Wish her the best in the future. But this was my experience for future business with her. :NoNo:
 
Again - due to some circumstances involving her family I was willing to work with her on some other options. However, when it came down to the 2 snakes in trade of $175 in value give or take with shipping - I lowered prices on 4 breeding snakes 2m 2f - and then she couldn't do that in paying difference and the deal kept going down from there to finally one snake breeder size and proven and shipped = her shipping and snakes cost ..... after all this for four weeks of back and forth ... sure not sure.... this happened... can't do it now... etc ..... now it is I want to keep the snakes... again just a lot of being unsure about anything and wanting to jump head first and not following through does not help in this business nor with me after trying to making things happen for her. I was still eating cost more than she knew but again after too much explaining and her not getting --- this is probably best.
 
ALSO I offered to purchase snakes as well - that way she was not out of any money - but still declined and the snakes were purchased for me on the trade due to a contact she had.
 
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