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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.

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SOLD . I have 1.1 mavortium. The male is Amelanistic and the female should be het. Amel as she is a sibling. These are Ltc and are 2 years old from Lubbock. He is not albino as albino lack all pigment including in the eyes. He lacks melanin hence Amelanistic. I hate to get rid of these but I am trying to fund other projects. I am asking $400 shipped for the pair. USPS m.o. only,sorry for any inconvenience. In the right hands that someone has a chance to breed these and produce more of him!
 

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Never heard of a money order recipient being the one to worry about being the scammer! Its the other way around someone sending a fake money order ! Can someone please explain to me like I'm a 6 year old how I would be the scammer being the one receiving a money order????????? Go figure, some people! Pretty sure if I was the freekn scammer!! I would not be on this bleepn site selling animals as long as I have! Yeah, scammer you know what you can do buddy!
 
Creek kid said:
Can someone please explain to me like I'm a 6 year old how I would be the scammer being the one receiving a money order?????????
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I suspect the worry is that paying with a money order leaves no recourse for the buyer if the deal goes bad in some way (item not as described, DOA, no package sent at all, etc).

Money orders are basically unsecured funds -- that is, they do not have the backing of the funds processor to mediate disputes. That's one reason PayPal's buyer protection is worth the cost to a lot of people (including me; I turn down all purchases for which the seller demands unsecured funds in every instance but one I can think of, and this was a breeder of rainbow boas that is very highly regarded and is known to many people in the hobby).
 
Thanx John for explaining. Its very sad that people can't be trusted these days. Me personally, my conscience would not allow me to take advantage of someone. If I did pretty sure I wouldn't last here on FC.As far as PayPal they are a bunch of crooks imop! I sent payment to an email that was sent back to me because gmail stated that that email was no longer in use. So I couldn't ask for my money back via that email address. Good ole pp tells me through there non existent customer service that the money was accepted, ( uhh huh right in there pocket). How's that the case if said email is no longer in use? They never returned my money!
 
Yeah, there are a lot of scammers of all sorts, and buyers (and sellers) have to stay very alert. That isn't anything distinctly recent that I can see, but technology does make a lot of scammers' jobs easier and brings each of us into contact with many more of them more quickly; the efficiency of modern society is a double edged sword.

Was that PayPal transaction using 'Goods and Services'? I suspect not, because then a claim could have been filed when the purchase simply wasn't shipped. There are some instances where the usual PayPal buyer protection doesn't apply, though, and a buyer needs to keep those in mind. AFAIK, PP doesn't cover purchases that won't have a shipping tracking number (such as purchases made face to face), for example.

The 'Friends and Family' option on PayPal does not have such protections, though, and is simply another type of unsecured funds.
 
I guess I was to busy being offended by someone thinking I was a scammer. Maybe I should of 1st put myself in a potential buyers shoes. If I have offended anyone with my rant than I do apologize. With pp I may use them in the future but will be more diligent with knowing there terms. Thanx again John.
 
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