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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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Randy F said:
I understand completely, but you want people to buy from you because of quality. People are buying hets because they want to make visuals but can't afford them. At this point it is more of a quality issue. I replaced a snake that died over a month after it sold. They guy never got it to eat and didn't contact me until it died. I could have said "sorry dude" and done. One snake here and there is good business and standing up for your quality.
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That is a different scenario than the genetic assurance topic my paragraph you quoted spoke to. While there are other reasons to buy hets than cost (I buy hets and homozygous animals and not for lack of budget when I buy hets), I do agree with you regarding why most people purchase heterozygotes instead of homozygotes.
 
This whole topic was brought up not about hets but about a Dom/codom gene that is not there. Then it went to what would be called enough to say it wasn't there. Once we start talking about hets that don't produce it becomes a quality issue. We can do a completely different thread on that. Just as this, it will be dependent on people's ethics. I myself believe my animals are halite enough to stand by them. If I can't stand by what I sell, why should anyone buy from me?
 
Randy F said:
This whole topic was brought up not about hets but about a Dom/codom gene that is not there. Then it went to what would be called enough to say it wasn't there. Once we start talking about hets that don't produce it becomes a quality issue. We can do a completely different thread on that. Just as this, it will be dependent on people's ethics. I myself believe my animals are halite enough to stand by them. If I can't stand by what I sell, why should anyone buy from me?
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A single copy of a dom/codom gene is a het.
 
I am sure you completely know for this example we are separating Dom/codom to show it is not recessive. This is a discussion on where people take responsibility. So we get your facts, you stand behind everything you sell no matter what anyone says it is, cool.
 
Randy F said:
I am sure you completely know for this example we are separating Dom/codom to show it is not recessive. This is a discussion on where people take responsibility. So we get your facts, you stand behind everything you sell no matter what anyone says it is, cool.
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Just going by what you said. Anything with a pair of dissimilar alleles at the same locus is a het regardless of the mode of inheritance. Not about hets, but instead about...hets. The genetic discussion is still unrelated to a scenario of a non-feeder all the same.

I do not disagree with your non-feeder response as a nice practice.

Still, as a matter of quality, any buyer is capable of extinguishing the life of an animal of the utmost quality. I am not immune to this potential, either. I do not know of any buyer that is. That is why so many only cover things to a point. Where that point lies is up to the seller and that should be made clear to prospective buyers in the seller's terms. It is a stroke of generosity to go beyond one's terms. I have from time to time, but that is at my discretion and I am not obligated to do so. Having had a customer who cooked a very expensive baby right after receipt by sticking it in a shoebox right under an MVB placed directly above the box at the height of the shoebox's sides, I know all too well that an animal of the highest quality can be "returned to dust" in short order by zero fault of the seller and for which the seller need not express anything beyond polite condolences to the buyer. If you as a seller decide to sacrifice more than your fair share in response to my explained scenario, you would fully be within your right to do so, but you would be equally within your right not to do so. Neither makes you a better person. Simply a different person.
 
I agree completely. That's why when the guy contacted me and asked about the snake not eating after the second day and I asked if he put it in a bag or box with the pinky? He said he laid the snake on the bed and put the pinky there......I bought it back. Eats great in its tub where it's comfortable! If I know I am not responsible then I try and help them out but do not have an obligation. The guy where the baby died and I actually gave him the purchase price in credit, bought about 6 more from me. I approach every deal as though I was the buyer as well and try and make sense of it.

I actually am in the middle of a sitsuations where someone sold me a leopard pied that after 5 clutches and 2 years gave me no leopards. I am talking to him but it does not look like it's going anywhere. It made me wonder what people think. Like I said, I try and see what people think and not just react. I was not sure if what I offered was reasonable or not. I did not want to put names or actual facts because he could always make good and I cant stand it when people run right out to talk bad about someone.
 
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