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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.

Bad Guy MEL KRUGER - CROOK

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Crook, scammer, and BAD GUY Mel Kruger.

The deal that happened that only benefited one party. The trade from hell.

So I traded a nice ivory ghost het moonglow for a rifle. The deal took a bit but went well. I then offered to trade a lot of snakes (worth over 2K) for two other firearms. I offered to trade knowing it was a loss for me, due to space limitation and other factors in my life (relocation). I figured I can use the firearms for recreation and collection and still maintain a decent boa collection. So I shipped the lot (minus one boa) to Mel. I accidently forgot to include one of the 12 boas. I was packing to move and I forgot one boa. It was a mistake. This was explained. The shipment was delayed by SYR but upon arrival to Mel’s residence, he called me saying the boas arrived fine and praised how great they looked. The next day, he told me that that that he was not happy with one male. He claimed it had a bump which means he was sick. I informed him that that was how he is and how I purchased him years ago. I never really noticed it since I attributed to his structural make-up. I explained to him was that since he has been with me for over two years, he ate, sheds, and bred perfectly. I asked him to feed him to see if he would eat. He ate with no problem. As I explained and expected.

Since he had eleven (11) boas and I had NOTHING of his, I told him to start the paperwork for the gun transfers since I know it takes a bit form dealer to dealer. He stalled and then refused. He wanted me to replace the male. I told him that the male was fine and he noticed he ate and he even commented on how pretty he was. After going back and forth with this man who never wants to talk like men over the phone, instead complain over texts, I decided to take a loss and told him that he can keep all of the 11 snakes if he sends just one of the firearms. Of course he agreed to this. All of sudden the missing boa and the proclaimed “sick” boa are no longer an issue for him. Realizing that he is trying to get one over on me and this “trade” I let it slide. I wanted to have something for my loss.

So it turns out that the gun cannot be shipped to me because of the NY laws. So now he says he wants me to PAY for shipping for the remaining boas of mine. REMAINING boas of mine – because he had sold some already. INCREDIBLE. He sold my boas already. I told him that I have shipped boas to him which was costly already and received nothing from him. There were babies, yearlings, and adults in the lot – over 30 lbs shipment across the U.S. Why would I pay to have a portion of them shipped back? What would I get out of that trade other than a huge financial loss, unneeded stress, and less of my stock of boas?

I asked him if he had anything else. He mentioned a glock 19. We then settled to have him send a glock instead. He said he would trade if his pending a deal that has not happened falls through – a deal he has been waiting on for three months. I wondered why that deal never happened! I can imagine why….Regardless of that, imagine my surprise when I log on today and see that the glock is posted for trade. So naturally, I sent him a message saying that he agreed to send that to me to make this trade right. He said no…because he thinks his glock is worth more than the boas. UNBELEIVABLE. The glock was listed for less than the other guns, but now it’s too much. Even after he said he would.

This man is a crook. He has now a total of 12 of my boas and I have NOTHING.

He has:
5.1 Ghosts het moonglow ‘15
1.1 Hypo Het Moonglow ‘15
1.1 Trip Het Snowglows ‘14
1.0 Hypo Het Anery ‘10
0. 1 Pastel Het Anery ‘08

I have:
Empty pockets and fewer boas and NO firearm

Regardless of shipping issues, gun laws…that fact remains that he has my goods and I have NOTHING.

I will be posted the conversation soon…beginning from August 26th

Buyers/traders beware.
 
Regardless of shipping issues, gun laws…that fact remains that he has my goods and I have NOTHING.

I think it was up to you to have done the research on gun laws, he should not be expected to know the law of every state and city. By not researching and then shipping the critters, you put him in a bad situation. If I am not mistaken, the health law, article 161, of New York City will prevent him from shipping any snakes back to you legally.
Plus if one of your snakes was imperfect, it was on you to disclose that prior to sending it.

I am waiting on seeing the conversation, but from this first post, you are not an innocent party.
 
Thank you for your comment, but you are mistaken. I can receive boas and guns. I buy and trade for both often. I live in New York but not in NYC. There are o restrictions for Yonkers. I know the name Bronx Boa could be deceiving. That's where I am from.

You say I put him in a bad situation...who is in a bad situation now? Not him. Again...I have nothing to show for my lost boas.

And for the record, he feels the snake has an imperfection. It does not.
 
I am waiting on seeing the conversation, but from this first post, you are not an innocent party.

not an innocent party? Meaning that I'm to blame or have some fault? Yes, we both have to admit our mistakes with this...but he has my snakes and refuses to send me anything...how is that ok?
 
not an innocent party? Meaning that I'm to blame or have some fault? Yes, we both have to admit our mistakes with this...but he has my snakes and refuses to send me anything...how is that ok?


He had NO RIGHT to sell anything until I received his part of the trade as per our agreement.
 
I live in New York but not in NYC. There are o restrictions for Yonkers. I know the name Bronx Boa could be deceiving. That's where I am from.

You're the one that lists Bronx, NY as your location...if that is not accurate, then correct the location shown in your profile, please.
 
And for the record
The record shows no pictures as evidence one way or the other of the critter in question, but it DOES show you lying about your location.
 

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Also, he had a sale ad up earlier this month for some ivory ghost het moonglow females, not sure if these were yours?
 

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Wow I didn't get to see the other ads...yes those are mine!

Unbelievable


The BronX BoA
 
not an innocent party? Meaning that I'm to blame or have some fault? Yes, we both have to admit our mistakes with this...but he has my snakes and refuses to send me anything...how is that ok?

That is not OK. If he felt somehow that he could not ship guns or ship back snakes, he should have contacted you and offered a satisfactory (to you) amount of money as payment for the snakes.
He should have done that already, if he does not do so shortly in my opinion he has ran a scam here and your Bad Guy title will be valid.
 
Can you post screenshots please?

Also what were the two original firearms he was supposed to trade?
 
That is not OK. If he felt somehow that he could not ship guns or ship back snakes, he should have contacted you and offered a satisfactory (to you) amount of money as payment for the snakes.

He should have done that already, if he does not do so shortly in my opinion he has ran a scam here and your Bad Guy title will be valid.


Thank you for stating this.


The BronX BoA
 
Not true

Well here is my side first deal we made went really good he sent the snake I sent the gun 2nd deal came he sent all the snakes except for one that was the most expensive snake he did not send he also sent a sick snake that I will post pictures of the mouth is infected when the snakes came and I did not get all of them and I got the sick one I did not want them I wanted to send them back he would not so therefore I was stuck with the snakes at that point I told him I would try to make the deal anyways I tried to ship the gun where he lives they will not allow him to have it so therefore we was back to him shipping the snakes back to him he will not do it at this point right now I will still send him his snakes back if he will ship them back to him I will not pay for them he wants me to pay for them I do not see why I have to pay to ship snakes back to him that did not go right and I also told him if he will send me the snake that he owes me I will send him the Glock he will not I do not see what I have done wrong I have done everything that I can to try to make this deal go right when I could not send the gun to him and he would not pay for the snakes shipped back to him I informed him that the big snake was in a small tub which he knew from day one and I did not have a big cage and did not want to buy a big cage and less I knew I was going to have her he informed me that I can keep the big snake that he did not want it for me to go and buy a cage and I did I don't know what else I could possibly do but to either send the snake's back with him paying for it or if he sends me the other snake I will send him the Glock
 

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What don't you understand that you have my snakes and I have nothing.

Everybody sees that.

Send the glock. End this man.


The BronX BoA
 
Also why do you pull the posts off as soon as I told you I was going to pursue other measures?

Thank god they screen-shot the posts from this morning that prompted me to text you. You figured I wouldn't see it just like I did see your posts of MY snakes that you had for sale.

Settle your debts man.


The BronX BoA
 
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