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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.

For Sale Getting out of geckos...

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Here is my whole collection up for sale.

1.1 Giant Mack Snow (3 mos old)
0.1 Super Giant Normal het albino (1 year old)
0.1 Giant Tremper Albino (1 year old)
1.0 Super Snow Tremper Albino (1 year old)
1.0 Snow Enigma (3 years old)
1.0 Bell Albino (age unknown)


4 Repti Racks - 4 feet wide, 2 feet deep, 1 foot tall, split up into 4 one foot sections.
Helix DBS-1000 Thermostat
Incubator - ReptiPro 5000

All hardware is under a year old, and in great shape. WILL NOT SEPERATE, and FOR NOW, will not ship. I will see if anyone would like to pick this up first. I am in Navarre, Florida which is by Pensacola. Asking $1500 for everything, which is a fantastic deal considering the racks, thermostat, and incubator cost me that much. Please PM with inquiries. And again, will not separate for now.
 
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Repti Racks

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Incubator - Reptipro 5000

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Male Snow Enigma

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Super Giant Female Normal het Albino

If someone wants more pics I'll get them, just let me know. Thanks.
 
Still have everything.... ok, so here's the deal. If someone is interested in having me ship everything, I will do this. I will ask for $2500 via certified check. I will then get everything together, ship the geckos first, then ship everything else. Whatever I don't use on shipping, I will return to the buyer. I will keep/scan all receipts that way the buyer can see everything that was done. OR, pickup for everything in Navarre, FL is still available for $1500.

I would rather NOT ship, but am willing to do so. Also, not willing to separate. If you look at what I have, you can see that some co dom projects are in these guys and you can easily make your money back next year. Please email me at [email protected] as I check that more than I get on here now. I just have too much stuff going on to really give these guys the attention that they should have.

NOTE: The Super Giant Female was just fixed for pinworms but she is putting some massive weight back on now. I will get a weight on her if desired. Oh, and one other thing I forgot to put in the original post is that a scale is going with these guys too.
 
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