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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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There's an ad running right now for bells lace monitors. The price is too good to be true (by a lot) so I figured it was a scam. I sent Itsbrad a pm offering to buy everything that he had at his advertised price. I asked for a picture and he sent this:


Notice that the newspaper is from Queensland, Australia? This all but confirmed my suspicion but I still acted interested. He wanted me to send money via Western Union today and offered to have them on a plane, Delta, within 2 hours. During our phone conversion he said he was boxing them up as we spoke. I said perfect, send me a picture of them while you're putting them in the box. I get this:



I got a real kick out of the pic above. I asked for pictures of the monitors being put in a box and i get pictures of four pillow cases.

Anyways, here's the rest of our conversion. Jump to your own conclusions. I despise scam artists.


 
Yes my monitors were stolen. The OP knows the deal so there is nothing to be said here.
 
Post pictures of the police report and pictures of YOUR lace monitors and I will apologize.
 
Hmm, 678-368-9222. Interesting.

Why am I thinking Dustin Draper (et al, lol) at it yet again.
Oh, yeah, here's why. :)
 

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He's advertising as Brad. I confronted him, via text, because the cell number is linked to Dustin Draper. Now he's claiming that his name is Brandon Welles.
 
Good eye, catching the newspaper, John.

Here's another shot of "Brad's" monitors. I don't have a Pinter-whatever account, so I can't see a date it was posted, but I suspect it isn't new.
 

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Well done Laura! You wouldn't believe the text thread that I have with this guy.
 
I have a screenshot but im new to fauna and im not sure how to post it but i asked to send payment thru paypal and he sent me this email address "[email protected]" which he told me was his wife who im guessing is christina davis aka christina draper ! This guy is a long time scammer i just googled him!
 
And to think I actually wasted time trying to help this guy out with his stolen monitors. Thanks for the detective work, folks. I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish with the lie about stolen monitors, other than to possibly give his other advertisements some authenticity??
 
3240 said:
Where have all the good scammers gone! This guy isn't even trying hard!
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Thats because im legitimately not trying to scam anyone. Im trying to find my lizards! If thats wrong and immoral then so be it. But im not going to apologize for trying to get intel.
 
Because at the end of the day, someone somewhere knows where they are. I can almost guarantee someone on HERE at least knows where they are even if they dont have them themselves.
 
PACCKMANS PYTHONS said:
I have a screenshot but im new to fauna and im not sure how to post it but i asked to send payment thru paypal and he sent me this email address "[email protected]" which he told me was his wife who im guessing is christina davis aka christina draper ! This guy is a long time scammer i just googled him!
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Then how about explaining the above quote?
 
Let me see if I can help. According to Brad he had some lace monitors stolen as did his friend Berle. Turns out, I know Berle. Berle didn't have a male, only a female. I had an extra male so I decided to help him out and I sent him my male on breeding loan. I heard a rumor that Berle hatched a clutch of lace monitors. When I sent him a text congratulating him he denied that he had hatched anything. I was suspicious so I asked for my male back and, to his credit, he did send it to me. But, the rumors were still out there that Berle had in fact hatched a clutch of lace monitors.

I gave up because I couldn't prove anything and it just wasn't worth the hassle. How was I going to prove that Berle did in fact hatch a clutch of lacies? I figured maybe they'd pop up for sale one day. There are very few lacies, especially bells lacies, in captivity in the U.S. So, any ad from any one other then a handful of people is suspicious which is why I responded to Brad's ad.

The irony is, if in fact Brad's and Berle's hatchling animals were stolen, half of them weren't theirs! How did Berle's hatchings, which never existed, get stolen? Hmmm.

Brad, or whoever you are, if you want to deny this go ahead and I will post proof. I'm hoping that you save me a bunch of time by not denying it.

Post pictures of YOUR animals. The ones that you claim that you still have. Post pictures of the animals that you hatched. Or, the animals the Berle hatched. You claim that you purchased your breeding pair from Florida. Who? How about some pictures of them too. Also, you claim that filed a police report. Can you post it please? I owe you a huge apology if you can provide any of the above.
 
itsbrad said:
Thats because im legitimately not trying to scam anyone. Im trying to find my lizards! If thats wrong and immoral then so be it. But im not going to apologize for trying to get intel.
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Brad,

You texted me a Western Union location close to my home. You gave me instructions to wire you $5500 today. I have it all on text. Call BS and I'll post the texts.

What is your real name?
 
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