• 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.

Krystal Doerner, Oakland City, IN - Bad guy

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Very sad situation

I have NOT bought anything from her, but hope to share some information that will help others purchasing highly probable viral infected offspring she is advertizing for sale and we know she is aware of it.

Last October, a breeder contacted me regarding some ill bearded dragons. He eventually had all 90 of his dragons put down as infected with adenovirus.

You may remember the post asking for where the obligation of the breeder stopped. From those post, he decided to contact each person that he had sold dragons too and inform them their dragons had been exposed to this and the contagious nature of it, may times with no symptoms appearing in the carriers, but they will always be carriers and will infect others, including all their offspring.

He knew which dragon brought it into his colony and one of the person he contact is the person this post is about. The mother of her dragon is the one that brought the disease into his colony, so a VERY HIGH probability that her dragon and all its siblings are infected and carriers.

Later this person contacted me also, she did not know we already know the breeder that she got her dragon from, but acknowledged he had contacted her and told her the mother of hers and the sibling he still had were infected and put down. She wanted to know the probability that hers was infected.

Her dragon was only 8 months old and had already bred, she was given the Doctors name and contact information that has developed a test to detect this in live dragons, the only one in the country that has that ability. Later she informed me she had froze the eggs and disposed of them. Would not breed her again and keep her quarantined. But was not going to have the animal tested.

Now she is advertizing for sale a second clutch from the same breeding she incubated , she has been confronted and the site she currently has the ad on has requested she remove it or they will tomorrow, but appears she is still determined to sale not only these offsping, but several other dragons in her collection.

The ads
ADS

The proof she is aware of the potential problem
The post and her response

Please do not purchase these animals unless you isolate and have them tested. The cost of the test is $75 and if anyone has already purchased some from her, isolate it from other, use very careful quarantine procedures between handling any from her and your other animals, mail me and we can get you the name of the Vet that developed the test for it.
 
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