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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.

Good Guy Kudo's to Varnyard and Nerd

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I just wanted to put this out there for everyone. Varnyard (Bobby) and Nerd (Kevin) both helped me out with a reptile show I was doing for my school. We had 300 kids and over 50 reptiles.

First of all Bobby, I am considering buying a tegu (Bobby we are still on board just want to make sure I can provide a great home for him). Bobby spent hours on the phone with me helping me to understand taking care of the tegu properly. He also let me use some of his personal pics in the reptile show.
We made colored booklets for each student and they got to learn about different repitles, as well as responsible pet ownership and conservation.

Second was Kevin, I have never bought anything from Kevin yet. Yet being the key word. I certainly will in the future due to his customer service. He also let me use some of his personal pictures to teach kids in regards to different ball python morphs. I know that he is crazy busy but yet he took the time to email me and let me know it was ok.

Both of you will be receiving something from the school in the future to show their appreciation. Also I put your websites on the booklets hopefully you will receive some business from this in the future.

Again I just wanted to give kudos where it is deserved. I know it might not be a big deal to most ppl....but to me and 400 kids.....it was everything.
 
Michelle,
Since Bobby & Kevin aren't affliliated, your comments should be split into two different threads (both of them have existing threads you can use).

I'll leave this here for a short time, to allow you to copy/paste if you desire.
 
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