• 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.

Bad Guy Mark Lenor, user name: marklenor

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Advertising Lace monitors here on Fauna~~


"Cute Male and Female baby Lace Monitors for sale,with no cosmetic issues and, Easy Keeper. Selling Sound and Healthy! Can pick up or i will be happy to Assist with shipping if needed. For more details and pictures ,please contact directly via email or text this number.
Prefer paypal payment ,cash,or amazon gift card
786-548-2135"..



The phone # is a Google number and message, his voice message is foreign..

Read his ad, it spells scam...

I'd avoid him like the plague...

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
And I thought it was just me ... but I think anything is a scam anymore :shrug01:
 
JimM said:
And I thought it was just me ... but I think anything is a scam anymore :shrug01:
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It's definitely becoming common place.

Definitely getting to a point to where the only safe deals are with those we know, or with those that have an impeccable reputation..

It's a Sad state of affairs.....

With the BOI going down next February, It'll definitely be "BUYER BEWARE", not that it's not now....

Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
I'm about to place an ad and it will be a local delivery only ... meeting at a rest stop or restaraunt but definitely not a show ... the way we did it 'back in the day' . Waaaaaay back in the day , LOL.

You're right about the problems the BOI closing will bring. Though Rich said he thinks it's not needed anymore, I think something like it is needed MORE THAN EVER.

I'm still hoping that there will be an even tougher successor after the BOI is gone. If not, the honest people in this are done ... unless they all go back to personal meetings, etc.

 
JimM said:
I'm about to place an ad and it will be a local delivery only ... meeting at a rest stop or restaraunt but definitely not a show ... the way we did it 'back in the day' . Waaaaaay back in the day , LOL.

You're right about the problems the BOI closing will bring. Though Rich said he thinks it's not needed anymore, I think something like it is needed MORE THAN EVER.

I'm still hoping that there will be an even tougher successor after the BOI is gone. If not, the honest people in this are done ... unless they all go back to personal meetings, etc.
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Jim, back in the day it was done through the airlines, mainly U.S. Air, (they were very reasonably priced) and we found the critters on price lists, that were mailed, or we called the dealers in Florida, New York, California, etc. and asked what they had available. Then came the internet, and with that came any one could be any one they wanted too be, hence the SCAMMER'S....

Those days are gone, and won't return.

The old timers have seen the best of times, and the new comers will never experience the best of times, we've seen.

As far as meeting in person, that's great, "IF" you both live reasonably close, what to do if the sale or purchase is coast to coast, or border to border? There's no good answer, or solution, just research the best you can.....


JMHO..........
Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
 
The member has been banned. There are inconsistencies with the registration details, the IP address is associated with spammer attacks, the location information is specious (a crock, really), the biography section's styling is common to similar scam/spam attempts here, the email address for the user is in both puppy and cat scam ads, and the photos in the lace monitor ad are stolen. Then there is the species discrepancy....
 
Big Time Reptiles said:
As far as meeting in person
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They take your money and run
They beat the stuffing out of you and take your money and car and run
They pay with counterfeit money
They do artistic things with paint and your red dragon is a nice critter but mousy brown after its first bath the next morning


JimM said:
Though Rich said he thinks it's not needed anymore
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The decline in financial support for the BOI was writing on the wall that people did not value it enough to support Rich's work and effort with memberships. (I am not speaking of the wonderful, loyal supporters who have bought memberships for decades and even now support the site) He might have had to use his savings to defend our right to leave opinions and reviews if there were threats of legal action or the actions themselves. People were happy to avail themselves of it for free whenever it suited them, however, and there is a great wailing and gnashing of teeth now that they will no longer have free services. Yes, people are saying how much need there is for the site, but they want Rich to work for free and have not been willing to buy memberships.
 
Big Time Reptiles said:


As far as meeting in person, that's great, "IF" you both live reasonably close, what to do if the sale or purchase is coast to coast, or border to border? There's no good answer, or solution, just research the best you can.....


JMHO..........
Lynn Peterson
Big Time Reptiles
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This is why I breed very few animals now ... or buy much. I just deal with a few close friends or those that they endorse which cuts down what I now do herp-wise considerably.

I can do this now because I've worked with pretty much everything I wanted - except Bushmasters :( - in nearly 50 years. There are still things I want but have to remind myself about what am I going to do with the babies ... so either talk myself out of it or buy one animal and not a pair. :shrug01:
 
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