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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.

Inquiry: Brent @ arizona xtreme reptiles

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i'm thinking about making a fairly large(for me) purchase of some rare boas from him. i was wondering if anyone knows or has done business with arizona Xtreme reptiles. thanks for taking the time to read this.
Russ
snakeyes herpeticulture
 
We have been in contact with this individual for the last few weeks... At first he called himself Xtreme Reptiles Just like us... He claimed to have been in business for over 5 years with that name and said he had never heard of US... After demanding proff of his business liscence or anything for that matter with his company name on it, he changed his comapany name to Arizona Xtreme Reptiles... We have been in contact with our attorneys over his obvious abuse of our company name... On reptibid he was caught Blatenly Lying about a 21ft African Rock Python he was selling which was barely 12 ft long... That was his First Lie... His Second Lie was of Having the original Business name of Xtreme Reptiles for any Period of time after being confronted with the Truth... I have yet To hear of anyone who has actually Purchased From him... He has a 0 feedback rating on reptibid still... This company is less than 2 weeks old yet is claiming to have over 1000 animals currently availble... At first he did not even give his phone # only an email address which is still using our company name on it.... We will be further investigating this matter in order to protect our Honest name and reputation.... Maybe Richie can do his home work on this guy and find all his contradictions like he has done in the past... Not to mention that he is only acepting Money orders sent to him in advace which is always a warning sign of a possible scam


Sincerely,
Alfredo Veloso
 
My .02

I have lived in the Valley for 16 years and keeping reps for 7 years, and have never heard of this person. Not saying anything about this them, just that I have NO knowledge of them.

Chris McAra
 
My customers In arizona wre the first ones to tell me about him Using my name on reptibid and Turtle times... They Told Me there was no one in that town Selling reptiles by any name they knew of...


Alfredo Veloso
 
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