• 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 Tony Frost [email protected]

Yes, please any info on him will be great. He is emailing me and wants to trade some morphs for my spider ball python. I don't want to waste my time if he isn't legit. He did however send me pictures of the ball pythons that I requested and they weren't stolen pics looks very legit. Ill ask for more with an item in the picture and that'll give a general idea.

Anthony Allis
[email protected]
 
Same here , he gave me references , for my spider also. let me know , I was not sure either way. thanks

Derek
 
Hey,
He wanted to trade my albino female for a 2500g het pied female and a 500g pastel het pied male. I couldn't determine if he was legit, and it sounded to good to be true. So I don't know either, I would like to know for sure though.
 
He might be legit because he offered me those exact same 2 snakes and after I forgot to respond to his last email, he I guess tried something else for those same snakes.

Take care!
Anthony Allis
[email protected]
 
What kind of references can he provide?

Has anyone asked him about references? If he's dealing in that kind of product he has to have references of some kind. This business is too small for someone not to know someone. My experience tells me that an average Joe doesn't just go out and drop $5000-10,000 on some balls and not have anyone know them.

If he is legit and he can provide some decent references then the deal for the het Pied and Pastel het Pied would be an awesome deal to snatch up. I also wonder if he is the person who produced them if he has photos of his Pastel breeding his female Pied to prove that he did the breeding and also the female Pied sitting on the eggs as well as the babies hatching out.

Ask him for this information because if he can provide it then that's great, if he gets all pissed off then he's probably trying to pull a scam.
 
Guys, it really doesn't matter if he's legit or not, if you just follow this one simple step....

HAVE HIM SHIP HIS SNAKES FIRST!!.... period....

If you like them, THEN ship him yours.... How easy is that??

Neil
 
Oh yeah.... OBVIOUSLY, he has to send all the pertinent documentation along with the snakes, letters, bills of sale, pics, etc....

No matter who has ever asked me to trade with them (if I wanted the trade), they either shipped first, or I didn't do the deal.... I have NEVER been ripped off doing it this way....

Neil
 
Rule #2...Don't trade for hets from a new or unknown source.

It would suck to find out in 2 years that you traded for an ugly pastel and a normal that are het for nothing.
 
Oh geez, I didn't even notice they are HETS.... I thought you were talking about the real deal....

RULE #3.... Whoever decides to go through with this deal.... go have your head examined FIRST, and just before they commit you, THEN do the deal.... At least they'll have a REASON to commit you then....

I wouldn't even trust reputable dealers for hets.... why don't you just do the trade with Chris Johnson, I'm sure he'd be happy to oblige you....

Neil
 
[email protected] tried to trade me on april 8th, 2500 gram female het albino and a pastel male 500 gram het albino for a $995.00 male ghost of mine. did not reply to him because the deal was too good. :rofl:

Neil, why would you not trust reputable dealers to buy hets from them? :shrug01:
 
Ed.... I guess I should rephrase that last statement.... There are VERY FEW of the "reputable" dealers I would trust with hets (YOU being one of them).... But when it comes to HETS, the buyer is only going to get a snake that looks just like a regular Ball Python (or whatever), and you have to rely on the seller that the genes are really in the snake.... it's the SELLER that has to be BEYOND REPROACH as far as honesty goes, and there aren't too many of them around (again, YOU being one of them).... ANYONE can fake a document, steal a picture of conception, breeding, laying of eggs or hatching, and "make" them their own.... Just look at what that "very reputable" Chris Johnson has done to so many people????
My point was (which I obviously didn't get across too well), there ARE a few VERY REPUTABLE dealers around that sell hets, so why on Earth would you go to Joe Schmo just to save some money??.... There's a saying that says, "The cheap become expensive".... If YOU were selling any HET for $2000, and Joe Schmo SAYS he has the SAME HET for $500, I would buy YOURS, no questions asked, and KNOW I'm getting the real enchilada.... In the long run, getting a REAL HET from a REPUTABLE DEALER (like yourself), will make you tons of bucks when you produce your first clutch, and more than make up for the extra $$ you spent....
Does THAT make any more sense??....

Neil
 
InfinityReptiles said:
Hey,
He wanted to trade my albino female for a 2500g het pied female and a 500g pastel het pied male. I couldn't determine if he was legit, and it sounded to good to be true. So I don't know either, I would like to know for sure though.
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Ed Clark said:
[email protected] tried to trade me on april 8th, 2500 gram female het albino and a pastel male 500 gram het albino for a $995.00 male ghost of mine. did not reply to him because the deal was too good.
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Um, kind of odd that he just happens to offer one person a 2500 gram het pied and 500 gram pastel het pied, and then in another offer, the snakes are a 2500 gram het albino, and 500 gram pastel het albino. Quite a conicidence, ain't it?

Not to mention that the "hets" he claims to have a market value of quite a bit more than the animals he is trying to trade them for....
 
He could be offering the same snakes to everyone because he is being denied by everyone so he "Has" those same snakes with an intention to trade for something.

****He stated he lived in Portgage, Indiana.

Anthony Allis
[email protected]
 
The point that was made AJ, is that the 2500 gram female is both a het pied and a het albino, just offered as a different morph to suit his trade? :shrug01:
ExoticsExpress said:
He could be offering the same snakes to everyone because he is being denied by everyone so he "Has" those same snakes with an intention to trade for something.

****He stated he lived in Portgage, Indiana.

Anthony Allis
[email protected]
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Ed Clark said:
The point that was made AJ, is that the 2500 gram female is both a het pied and a het albino, just offered as a different morph to suit his trade? :shrug01:
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Oh ok, wow, didnt sim through and notice that. Yeah, thats very odd that they are both het for something different. And Tony replies very quick with answers and he didnt reply to him bring in this thread yet. :shrug01:

***In my opinion the ball python is just het for scam*** :nopity:

Anthony Allis
[email protected]
 
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