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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.

Julie Moore

Julie Moore

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Hi. I was born and raised in Biloxi, Mississippi and with the exception of the two years that my fiance and I lived in Tampa, Florida, I have lived here all of my life. I am happily engaged to a great guy - William Lyman Ware Jr, who I've been with for just about four years. We are both really into reptiles and are working on getting a bit of a business going. In addition to our numerous reptiles, we have a ninety three pound Rottweiler (Zeus), two kitties (Mystik & Mia), and I have a blue cobalt tarantula. I'm always up to something on the computer, absolutely love listening to music, enjoy going to the gym, drawing, fishing, going to the dragway, and bodyart. Currently I have five tattoos. My birth mother (recently reunited with April 22nd, 2003) and I will be getting matching ones soon - her's with "Mother" under the picture, mine with "Daughter" under the picture :D
 

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Mississippi !

Hi Julie,

My wife Vickie and I live on the other end of our great state in Desoto county. Glad to see another MS herper.

James
 
Indeed. I guess we "Mississippi herpers" are a rare breed. :D At least thats how it seems so far....LOL. We lived in Florida for a while and WOW what a major difference as far as the herp industry goes.
 
i visited Biloxi last summer, great place other than we ended up at a place called Firedawgs and didnt realise that they dont close at 2am like places here in Texas do.. needless to say it was a suprise to us when we went up to order a drink and saw the sun coming up... Glad i had too many drinks to remember what our tab was :)
 
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