• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.

Inquiry on: Jamal Griffin / [email protected]

I know it's harsh, but he's right. Talking like that you could not sell me a free bumbper sticker let alone thousand dollar morphs....

Good Luck, Really........
 
At it again

Please don't tell me this kid is at it again. A few years back he came in a chat room trying to sell stuff. So i almost fell for it, but then i got curious and started questioning him. Come to find out the kids 14...08 in his graduation year. So i decide to get back at him. Me and one of my friends made 2 fake sns that related us to some special group for the conservation of protected species because he had species every one knew a 14 year old kid couldn't get. So we get on these screennames and start questioning him and he changes his story to say he has a "dealer" in california that he tells what the people want then the guy in california ships it to him and he ships it out. So then i get his phone number and we call and ask if Jamal's there and you can here someone in the background say "tell them im asleep." I think we scared him pretty well. Well, I thought i ended his shannanegans but i guess not. Watch out for this kid, don't let em fool ya.
 
lets get a couple things straight

first of all look at the date about this ,second i am not 14 so evryone knows i am 18 and me and my dad run the buiness like i said before hes a truck driver and is never home. In as for the the chat room that was 3 years ago Your bringing up old things . You also said i am selling thing that a 14 year old kid would in have i bet if u came to my house u would be amazed and stop saying i am 14
 
lets get a couple things straight

in the last couple weeks people from fauna have been buying animals from me and are going to post what they got from me since some of still think i dont have what i am selling
 
moose11 said:
first of all look at the date about this ,second i am not 14 so evryone knows i am 18 and me and my dad run the buiness like i said before hes a truck driver and is never home. In as for the the chat room that was 3 years ago Your bringing up old things . You also said i am selling thing that a 14 year old kid would in have i bet if u came to my house u would be amazed and stop saying i am 14
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English, boy English?!


moose11 said:
in the last couple weeks people from fauna have been buying animals from me and are going to post what they got from me since some of still think i dont have what i am selling
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Wow. Almost in English. And evidently run through a spell checker. Of course, after reading this thread why would anyone from "fauna" have bought from this boy? No wait, he's 18 so he's a man. pffft.
:toiletcla
 
yeah...okay Jamal...If everything's legit then why were you so scared and yelling "tell them Im asleep" in the background when we called posing as some federal agency, threatening to encarcerate you? Let me guess, some random excuse? And as of the people posting on fauna that have bought from you, i believe your probably telling your high school friends to post. No ones going to buy from you.
 
"And as of the people posting on fauna that have bought from you, i believe your probably telling your high school friends to post. No ones going to buy from you."

Certainly no one with any common sense will.

This kid reminds me of a 14 year old scammer (he would be about 19 now)that I had a run in with back in Feb, 2000. His name was Steven Remp and he was from Central Square, NY. Anyone ever heard of him? He was all over the now defunct website called reptilesonline.com.

Jamal, do yourself and the rest of a favor, and take a couple of basic English courses. You will find it to be a very good investment of your time in the long run.
 
snakewrangler89 said:
yeah...okay Jamal...If everything's legit then why were you so scared and yelling "tell them Im asleep" in the background when we called posing as some federal agency, threatening to encarcerate you? Let me guess, some random excuse? And as of the people posting on fauna that have bought from you, i believe your probably telling your high school friends to post. No ones going to buy from you.
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Well, no matter what he's accused of I should point out that it should not compell you to stoop to a lower level.

ie. Impersonating a federal official is in fact a felony. I'd refrain from doing this in the future.
 
Good point Chris. That is not the smartest move for them to make. I understand the motivation behind it, but there are other ways to go about exposing frauds.
 
Dennis Hultman said:
Scary,
If people are buying from you I will be shocked.

Even after I tagged your ads with this thread?
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Maybe "buying" means something else in Jamal-ese?
 
"Maybe "buying" means something else in Jamal-ese?"

Ask John (reptilebreeder). He seems to have great linguistic skills in that he can actually speak Jamalese. He translated a whole paragraph earlier! Before that, I had no idea he was bilingual. :raspberry

Ok, I will quit now with the funnystuff.

Jamal, you will do so much better in all aspects of life if you put a little more effort into your communication skills. Is English your first language? If not, well then that changes things some. Either way, all I can say is keep working at it. I am dyslexic and can barely spell my own name without an error. In typing class I was the first person to memorize the keyboard, but still walked away with a D because I failed the final exam. We were allowed two errors, and then we had to stop. My first two words were errors. My right hand and left hand get confused when typing. I also have a problem with transposition of letters. My point here is that I still try. I have even published a couple of reptile articles. I am still the slowest typer I know, but like I said, I keep trying.

Also realize that you do not want to be doing anything that even remotely seems fishy on this site, as there those here that will catch you and out you. You are off to a very questionable start so far. Keep things on the up and up, and you will have nothing to worry about. Posting other people's animals for sale, when those people have no Idea that you are posting them, is not appropriate or ethical.
 
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