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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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"Golden" Spiders?

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Can someone tell me if there is such a thing? A friend of mine sent me an ad saying that this "isn't an ordinary Spider", but the pic had been messed with so I doubt the ad was valid. However since I'm constantly catching up on new BP morphs is there a line of Spider called a Golden Spider?

Thanks in Advance- Deb
 
Hmm, very interesting. I've never heard of it; I would imagine RDR, NERD, or VPI would be the ones to come out with a new morph, and I can't find a "golden spider" on any of their sites, but I suppose it is possible...

I'm interested to see if anybody else has a take on this. :)
 
Maybe...

The term "Golden Spider" could have been used to describe the appearance of the Spider?
The same as "High White" or "Low White" is used.

Maybe they were just saying that the "High Gold Spider" does not look like your average Spider?

Can you post the pic in this thread?
Have a member that can check out the photo and see how altered it is take a look at it,(I think Alicia / MooingTricycle is able to do it?)

I sometimes "mess with" my photos to get the picture to represent the actual appearance, and true colors of the animal.
If I am selling / trading the animal, I also send untouched photo's as well.

Then again, maybe they are intentionally misrepresenting their animal?
 
The photo was messed with & the ad stated it was NOT a normal Spider- yet corecting te photo that's all I saw.
 
Spiders vary quite a bit from animal to animal... you have your super reduced, not so reduced, high white, low white, Ones with almost a solid yellow side instead of white... Some dark, and some high gold like what the person selling the animal might be referring to.


IMO though...Any alteration to a picture's color... even to try to represent the animal better with honest intentions is still misrepresentation of that animal in my opinion. I just can't when someone posts an ad up and the snake has been photoshopped to death and looks like a plastic toy... I saw a thread once where a group of people all photoshopped an animal to the best of their ability to try to bring out the animals "truest" colors and by the end you would have thought it was 9 differen't animals had you not known they were shopped. LOL

If you feel you need to alter the color go outside in the sunlight, seek some better lighting or just straight up get a new camera that takes better pics LOL...
 
RJK890 said:
Is this the Spider Ad that you are referring to?

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144904

If so, I don't see any misrepresentation at all.
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Absolutely not-
That ad is fine. It's one thing to describe your animal's colour & another to tout it as a separate line/morph. The original ad was off-Fauna & referred to a GOLDEN Spider as in morph/line. Since no one has hard of any new line of Spider, it's a good thing my friend avoided purchasing there.
 
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