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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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MedusaCoils

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Well, I don't know where to begin. So let me just start right off. I was on this site years ago. Many years ago. My last post was somewhere in 2012. I have tried to log in on that name, but I have no clue what, or remember is what I mean, what my email was.

I can see a few people are still posting on here, but not many. Regardless many things have changed. I see a lot of new names. I see some have left. I just see a lot of changes.

Well, I am betting you are wondering who I am. I went by the name of MedusaCoils on this site, or simply Wayne. Maybe I can get my old account back or maybe I can't. I don't use that email; or I should say remember it, so it doesn't matter.

I can see there have been some changes in the way we look at cornsnake morphs, which is expected. Anyway, I don't have as many snakes as I did before. I'm down to three Cornsnakes. We'll talk about the morphs later. These are special project snakes.

I'll try to get on a little more when I can. So, re-Hello!
 
I should also mention that from 2008 through 2013 I had a fun business going on. My snake room had roughly 70 - 80 Corns + Milks, Mexican Blacks, Milks, and Ball Pythons. Due to medical reasons, I had to sell my business and that destroyed me. Most found homes as pets. Very few made it to breeders that understood the projects I was working on. This killed me. We kept a few and bought a few and sold a few and now only have 3 Corns for a small project that we are working on. We may break back into the business but so much has changed especially about morphs and morph identifications. I have work to do, but I'm excited.
 
Hey! We have similar situations! I also couldn't log in since the last time was 2012. Lol

Sorry to hear about the business but good luck getting back at it!
 
FlameOnChoi said:
Hey! We have similar situations! I also couldn't log in since the last time was 2012. Lol

Sorry to hear about the business but good luck getting back at it!
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If you contact me via private message and give me some info to go on, perhaps we can recover your old account for you.
 
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