• 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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You ever read something about your reptile, and wonder where they get their information? Everything I've read about black spinytail iguanas, says they are mean, do not get tame, and not good pets.
Well let me tell you a story: One day I was shopping at the local pet shop, I was picking up some things I needed for my pets, and I went by the live reptile department, there I saw a adult spiny tail iguana sitting in a 20 tall tank with a bowl of baby spinach. I went to the front of the store and asked the lady if she knew that spinach was not good to feed to reptiles, she said, thats OK, that one back there is the devil. I thought about what she said and told her I wanted to look at him, she said, I'm not getting him out, he is way to mean. I walked back and looked at him, went back up front, and told her I wanted to buy him. Her reply was : Your crazy, I told her maybe so, but I still want him. I bought, him and took him home. There is no way I could leave him with her. At first she was right, but a week later he was eating out of my hand, climbing all over me, and just a wonderful pet to have around. Two weeks later, I went back to the pet shop with him on my shoulder. You should have seen the look the lady gave me when I walked in! All you needed was a feather to blow her over. She asked how did he get so tame? My reply was I'm a devil tammer. And just grinned.
With a slow gentle hand, and time, you too can tame a devil. He is one of the tamest reptiles I've had the pleasure to keep. I no longer own him, but the girl that got him from me still emails me from time, to time. She said he is the best pet she ever had.
 
Thats a great story...I love it when things like that happen, especially to petstore people who think they know everything but know very little..
 
Thanks!! And I agree with you, it is so true of many of the pet shops here. :rolleyes:
 
Mike Greathouse said:
Great story Bobby - Shall we start referring to you as The Iguana Whisperer?
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Your killing me Mike!!!
 
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