• 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.

Brian Layell ([email protected])

Brian Layell

He owns one of the local pet shops in the area. I Have purchased several animals from him. He has helped sell some of my animals.
Have had several business dealings with him and all have gone through without a hitch. I dont think him to be the type person that would get a bad guy post. In the past he has owed me money and I have owed him money but we both settle our debts. He has alot of wild exotics and is big into hots. Over all I would consider Brian to be a "good guy" and think him to be a good person.
 
Brian Layell is not [email protected]

After a long, continuing ordeal with Brian Layell, I have learned that [email protected] is not Brian Layell. Gecko8695 is a go between for Brian. I suggest that anyone who chooses to deal with Brian Layell ask to e-mail him directly to avoid the situation I am dealing with right now. More details about it will be posted once I get in touch with Brian directly to figure out who is at fault for the problems I am having. I don't want to point any fingers until I find out myself what is going on.

Sydney Alcorn
 
He (or his middle man) contacted me about a pair of ball pythons I had listed. He said he didn't have any colubrids but was trading for some. He also was upfront about his age (14). Not that the age is a (big) problem, I just was hesitant to deal with him due to the fact that he was "getting some" snakes from a friend. No good/bad guy, more a "???" guy from my viewpoint...ps also I never like dealing with someone who emails with one name and returns with an answer from another name (1st email was from gecko8695, the rest were from abcd efg...raised the red flag for me)...peace...
 
Hi! I am brian Layell and would like set things straight. I own a pet store in Bristol VA. have had it open going on 3 yrs. I answered a ad about some one wanting a female tegu and I have one so I contacted the and we started talking and he found out that I owned a pet store and wanted to know if I had anything for trade I told him I had some boas. So later own I got some e-mails with peaple wanting to trade for my baby boas. so I made the deals. Well I had two deals from IN. and I got them mixed up and only sent one person thier stuff but when this was brought to my attention I sent the second one out which was suppose to be 8 baby boas but I only had 2 left so I sent them 2 boas and a tangerine honduran milk snake for the trouble and told the that I would send the other 6 boas as soon as I got them
in. So I just got the boas in and it has been extremly cold like at night time in single digit so I have not shipped yet because I sent some to IN. and it was not this could and the guy said that he had trouble with them so when it warms up I am resendig his. So nobody is trying to rip anybody off or anything and nobody is a go between because if any body has e-mailed me dir. I have given my name,address and phone # to them. And if any one has questions I can be reached at 276-466-5444 I am there mon-fri
from 8:30 am till 8:30 pm and are address is
2703 Lee Hwy
Brostol VA 24202
the name of my store is Animal Adventures.
I just want everyone to know that I am not trying to rip no one off and that I will send what needs to be sent as soon as it warms up and I sent the people e-mails telling them that

Brian Layell
 
Ok then, who is the 14 year old using [email protected]? Hummi22689, the poster requesting the info, has Brian Layell/ [email protected] as his request for info...Brian, you have a fourteen year old son/relative/helper?...maybe passing himself of as you?...seems to be a little confusion here...
 
whoops, misread Sydneys post saying that he had found out Brian and gecko8695 weren't the same person...my bad
 
gecko8695

Maybe this post should be geared more toward gecko8695.The reason I thought he was brian layell is because I responded to a post on turtle times about trading geckos for uros. I had some uros I was interested in trading, so I e-mailed gecko8695. After a few e-mails back and forth, we ended up trading for solomon island grond boas instead. I kept asking for his name and # and shipping info. All he would give me was the Animal Adventures name and the address for it. I still asked for name and #, and he gave me the first name of Brian, and asked if I wanted his shop # or home #. He finally gave me the info. That is when I posted my origianl inquiry about him, which later became them. I got the one reply that said they knew him personally and he was a good guy, and I thought that there would be no problem since he owned a business. Gecko8695 was quick to answer e-mails until after I told him I had shipped. Then it would be days before I would hear from him. We had agreed that he would ship the day he recieved my stuff. That was a Wed. I talked to Brian on the phone that Saturday, and he said he ran out of heat packs, and would be shipping Monday.The package arrived on Wednesday, and had 2 of 8 ground boas and a hondo milk snake. When I e-mailed gecko8695, who I still thought was Brian, I got 2 different replies to it. One was OMG, sorry. The other was sorry, I ran out of ground boas, so I sent you the hondo instead and I will ship other boas tomorrow, which would have been this past Wednesday. After some looking around, I found a post made by gecko8695 and a reply made by animal_adventures, which completely threw me off. No one had ever once mentioned that gecko8695 was not Brian, so I thought the whole time I had been dealing with Brian directly. Now Brian has e-mailed me from his e-mail address, and I believe we have worked everything out. I am not blaming Brain for all of this, because I had made the deal with gecko8695 for something that Brian had. I just don't understand why gecko8695 is making all the deals for Brian.
I would use extreme caution in dealing with gecko8695, because he is making himself out to be Brian Layell, and making deals he cannot complete. Right now gecko8695 has 1.2 red ackies advertised for sale. If he is 14, where did he get the $$ for them, and would you send a 14 year old that type of money? If he rips you off, he is a minor, not really much you can do.

All in all, this is a warning post about whoever gecko8695 is, not Brian Layell. Brian cannot ship things that someone else promises, if he doesn't even have it to ship.

Sydney Alcorn
 
After weeks of waiting, I have decided to let everyone know about the dealings I have had with Brian Layell. I originally shipped my stuff to him on January 6. It is now Feb. 1, and I still have not recieved the rest of his end. I was supposed to get 8 solomon island ground boas. He did ship 2 of the boas and a hondo milk to me, which I recieved on January 17. I e-mailed him, and finally he told me he had ran out of the ground boas, but would ship the rest of them when he got some more in. I guess he got some more in, because he was going to ship this past Monday, but didn't get around to it. Then he was going to ship Tuesday, but yet again, he didn't get to it. Tuesday night he sent me an e-mail saying he was sorry and he would be shipping Wednesday for sure, and gave me a tracking #. Guess what, invalid tracking # and nothing was ever delivered. I have e-mailed him several times, but no response. I have given him my #, since he will not return my calls, and he will not call me. And, to top it all, the milk died after 10 days. So, anyone who is planning to deal with gecko8695 or Brian Layell, think about it. I was dealing with Brian Layell, but the deal was made through gecko8695. I ended up with 2 ground boas and a dead milk snake, on top of the anger.
 
I have also done business with Brian Layell. I was the other guy from Indiana he said he did a deal with. He agreed to send me 8 soloman island ground boas. Instead, he sent me 9. It was below freezing out, he sent them next day, but before 5pm, not before noon like I shipped my animals to him. They arrived at about 4:15pm, and it was well below freezing at that time. There were no heatpacks in the box, which I had asked him to do, and he said he would. All 9 snakes were frozen together in a little ball inside a deli cup. I placed them under a heat lamp, and waited to see what would happen. 7 of the 9 eventually started moving, so I was excited that at least 7 made it through the trip. 3 more died that night, so thats 4 left. 2 died the next day. 2 left. 1 died 2 days later, and the other died the next day. We sent several emails back and forth, and he was blaming it all on me, and saying that I was calling him a liar. He then said he would send me some more as soon as it got warmer, he also said that he had over 100 left. So, I don't know how he ran out of them and could only ship two of them. I'll let you all know more as soon as he ships me some more. I just don't understand how he couldn't believe me when I told him the condition that they came in. Even the 7 that survived initially rarely moved, and couldn't even be force fed. They had no energy to do anything. They couldn't even swim when put in water, they just sunk to the bottom.

Hope this helps anybody.
 
I was so wrapped up in the missing boas, I failed to mention the packaging. I'm sure most of you know the boxes pet shops get their fish orders in. Well that is what my boas and the milk were shipped in. 1 little deli cup and a small snake bag, then a lot of news paper. There were heat packs in mine. 3 actually. All taped together with newspaper wrapped around them in one corner of the box. May have been defective, because they heated up once I got them out of the box. The boas were in a deli cup of moist wood chips, that were frozen. The boas were stiff, and I honestly thought they were frozen. One of them did start moving after a couple hours under a heat lamp. The second didn't move much for a couple of days, but I knew it was alive because it would flick its tongue at me. They are very active now, I just can't get them to eat. Temps here were extremely low for a while, and Brian didn't once ask about temps, I asked him how temps were there, and he said they were fine, just go ahead and ship. Then he tells me he can't ship because it was too cold there. If I ever see the boas he still owes me, I will let everyone know, but I really think it is unlikely.
 
Ok, I mixed up his shipping and another one I got. There was one heat pack in the box(the box was about 10x6x8). The heatpack was an 18-hour one that you can buy at Walmart. The box was the just randomly filled with stirofoam and newspaper. With all of the snakes in a deli cup at the bottom of the box. The heat pack was as cold as the snakes were, so it hadn't been warm in a while. Sorry about the mishap.

Brian Scofield
 
Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that I recieved the ground boas on Feb. 7. They were packaged much better, and all arrived alive, and outwardly appeared healthy.


Sydney Alcorn
 
Well, he (Brian Layell) has been ignoring all of my emails lately and my instant messages on AOL Instant Messenger. Every email he has sent me has been rude, and now he is saying that he isn't even going to ship them to me because he doesn't have to anymore. Here is a copy of the last email he sent me just so everybody can get a feel for how he talks to people if he doesn't get his way.


listen you can post any crap you want to but just make sure it is the
truth
ok because they were 2 heat packs in the package and the animals that
you
sent were not all ok my employees opened them up and the sav. were so
cold
that later the smallest one died. but I have not complained about that
you
know tech. I don't have to send you any more becaused they arrived
alive but
I told you I would and I said when the weather breaks I would well it
has and
my heat packs will be here wensday and I will send out when I get them
and as
for have 100 of them I am a pet store and we do sell a lot of snakes
and I
have sold a lot I have had to get more 3 times if you would like to see
invoices. Like I said I don't care about you posting stuff but make
sure it
is the truth and you know what you are talking about. As for replying
to your
e-mails I don't get on the internet every day so I don't get them so
but I
gave you my phone no# twice and it is on the boi so if you want
something
call don't just start running your mouth about things that are not true
and
you left out how you wanted to do other deals and everything on your
post so
I think before you start slandering someone you should tell the truth.
I will
keep my word and send you more snakes as soon as the heat packs get
here and
if you want to see invoice on them I will be glad to show it to you
so.If you
have any question I willbe at my store this after noon and here is the
# for
the third time 276-466-5444

Thank you
Brian


P.S like I said I don't care about you posting things but just make
sure you
tell it all and that it is the truth
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When he originally talked to me, he said all of the animals arrived in great condition. The reason I haven't called him is because: 1) We don't have long distance on our phone, and 2) The last 5-10 emails from him have all been pretty rude, and I can't imagine talking to the guy like that.

The only reason I'm starting to post here is because the last person, who is from Indiana like me, got their snakes in the mail, whereas he won't even respond to me.

Brian Scofield
 
Is this the same gecko8695 that is in the adoption post in fauna here saying he will take/adopt animals?
 
gecko6895 is a kid who was trying to be the middle man between me and Brian Layell. He seemed to think that because he told me what Brian had, and that I expressed an interest, that I should automatically send him some of the snakes that I recieved. Hope this clears up some confusion.

I am still waiting on a response from Brian Layell as well. I'm about to get a calling card and start calling him, because this is just ridiculus.

Brian Scofield
 
Yes, it is the same gecko8695 that has ads posted saying he will take in any unwanted animals. Also has ads posted on turtletimes.com classifieds. Not sure of his actual name, because he told me he was Brian Layell, and the name on his e-mails is abcd efg.

Sydney Alcorn
 
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