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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.

How to edit classified adds

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Hey guys Im still fairly new to posting classifieds and cant quite figure out how to edit my existing adds can anyone help me with this?

Thank you!
 
Click the edit button that will be at the bottom of the ad, and change what you need to change.....If you want to change the title or the attached images, you will have to click Go Advanced when you get to the Edit screen - that will open the extra fields for you.
 
If I paid for a reptile and got a different one then I paid for but noticed that the ad was edited after I paid can I find out what they edited? I copied a pix of the said reptile when I made the purchased, got a totally different looking reptile but when I went back to the ad it had a different pix and stats but the same date. I looked up all classified ads from this seller and the one I thought I bought is not to be found, any advice?
 
houseape57 said:
If I paid for a reptile and got a different one then I paid for but noticed that the ad was edited after I paid can I find out what they edited? I copied a pix of the said reptile when I made the purchased, got a totally different looking reptile but when I went back to the ad it had a different pix and stats but the same date. I looked up all classified ads from this seller and the one I thought I bought is not to be found, any advice?
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I would post in the Board Of Inquiry (BOI) and others may come forward, a mod may resurrect an old ad or something may surface. Most viewers want everything up front (correspondence, emails, photos, texts, etc) to make a determination of what may have happened. It could be a misunderstanding or you could have been played. Have you confronted the seller yet?
 
Sent a pm to the seller and still have not heard back as of yet. I just wanted to get my chickens in a row if the out come is unfare. I understand ppl make mistakes but a flag went up when I saw the editing after the sale. Thank you for your very helpful advise.
 
houseape57 said:
Sent a pm to the seller and still have not heard back as of yet. I just wanted to get my chickens in a row if the out come is unfare. I understand ppl make mistakes but a flag went up when I saw the editing after the sale. Thank you for your very helpful advise.
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One other thing to remember, once an item is sold, the ad must be edited to mark it as "sold." GL.
 
Yes I understand that, however the ad that was there is gone, not even there as sold. Looks like the reptile I bought is for sale again with different sex and hatch date and price but is the pix of the one I bought. The difference in the reptiles is very differnt I will wait to see what the seller has to say.
 
If the pictures in the ad were changed, we can't bring up the old ones - that's why it's a good idea to make a copy of any ad from which you make a purchase.
If the ad was gone, it was deleted - whether by the seller, or by a moderator.
 
Seller wrote to me and I understand what happened and I am ok with the situation, nothing was done to mislead me in any way. However I never thought of copying the ad, very good sound advise for the future, thank you hhmoore and friends.
 
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