• 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 memnoch1970

mine was over a month but he says he will be paying you also , all of this only makes me not want to buy off of fauna, caleinte dragons has some ausome dragons and i had real good luck with her , if i ever want anymore i think i am going back to her . maybe pay a little more for what i am looking for but i know i wil get what i want and pay for
 
gillian25 said:
mine was over a month but he says he will be paying you also , all of this only makes me not want to buy off of fauna, caleinte dragons has some ausome dragons and i had real good luck with her , if i ever want anymore i think i am going back to her . maybe pay a little more for what i am looking for but i know i wil get what i want and pay for
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Why off of fauna? that makes no sense? FAUNA and its members, save for one, did not do this to you. There are PLENTY of Absolutely wonderful breeders here that are 100% trustworthy, and go ABOVE and beyond if something were to happen.
 
yes i think you are right , i'm bad ........... everyone was realy great . i think i need to just sit back a while and learn from this ,
 
Don't be lumping us in with that clown. You can't judge a whole group by one individuals stupid actions.
 
i know don't make me feel bad . i haven't been buying that long and this was my second person i bought from . you have to admit it was pretty horrible, through this i have to admit i have met some pretty wonderful people, if anything it will make me more careful.
 
gillian25 said:
i know don't make me feel bad . i haven't been buying that long and this was my second person i bought from . you have to admit it was pretty horrible, through this i have to admit i have met some pretty wonderful people, if anything it will make me more careful.
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The BOI is a wonderful tool make the most use of it in the future. It will save you many headaches. :thumbsup:
 
gillian25 said:
i know don't make me feel bad . i haven't been buying that long and this was my second person i bought from . you have to admit it was pretty horrible, through this i have to admit i have met some pretty wonderful people, if anything it will make me more careful.
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Ms. Ferdinardo,
Don’t feel bad. Yours is the same knee jerk reaction to a bad deal that caused Mr. Zuchowski to start the BOI to begin with. Just chalk it up to experience and keep plugging.
I doubt there are many people who, have been in this hobby for very long, that have not had some kind of a bad deal. You took a chance and caught. You are not the first to do so but you cannot allow it to frighten you away. For every bad guy post that makes the BOI there are hundreds of good deals that go on every day that are never mentioned here. For some strange reason we are far more inclined to scream about our bad deals than whisper about our good ones. Heck if everyone would post every good deal they had in a year Mr. Z would need to add another server to carry the load.

It is great that you have gotten some of your money back but do not let your guard down until you have received all your funds.

Mr. Maybin,
Don’t give up hope or let this thread die until you are paid back also.
The word is spreading through the different web sites about this deal and many people, who are potential customers of Mr. Sulwer, are watching actions to see if they will ever be willing to do business with him. Some could be customers for the first time and others are his past customers who are shocked by what he has done to you all.
 
chris did pay back all my money . that was great . he said he was going to send out a cashiers check for the full anount , then i found out it was only like $60 , Then he did pay me by pay pal the $120 so we are evened up . This all has to be hurting his selling . he is being watched and i don't think he thought he was . or would be , like his posts with his corvett , he told me he is hurting for money right now . (as every one is /says me ) i was the lesser he owed of the two.the bad thing for chris is that once a post is made it stays for a long time , and if he would do this again to some one it will popup.........
 
gillian25 said:
mine was over a month but he says he will be paying you also , all of this only makes me not want to buy off of fauna, caleinte dragons has some ausome dragons and i had real good luck with her , if i ever want anymore i think i am going back to her . maybe pay a little more for what i am looking for but i know i wil get what i want and pay for
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Please dont blame Fauna... because of the BOI here at Fauna... they have been able to out a bunch of scammers before alot of folks got took.

If in doubt.... post an inquiry on the BOI about the individual.... There are alot of upstanding breeders here.... and unfortunatly some not so upstanding... but they are getting weeded out as info becomes available.

Congrats on getting paid... and best of luck on your endevors.
 
I have no intention of letting this thread die as long as money is owed me. I'll keep it at the forefront.:thumbsup:
 
What is the latest word Mr. Maybin? Has any payback been more than mentioned?
 
just because i was payed does not mean i am gone . i will stick with it also until scott is paid.
 
The last I heard from him was an email last Monday. He said he was sending Toni her money and would start working on paying me back, so it's anybody's guess as to when I'll actually get mine.
 
chris you wanted to make your business work . when you called to say you had my money one of the first things you said to me was to please post on bio right away that you sent my money . this has been a while now your on a good track to making this right . don't you want this behind you ?
 
this is still looking bad for chris . he needs to finish paying back the rest of the money . if he ever wants things to go right for him again . this whole post never go's away . so in the future if he doe's this again it will be brought out . he is better off getting it paid so their is no more posts about it ,
 
I have had no contact from Chris in the last ten days. This has been his trademark(poor communication). I did see that he had time to make several posts on Talk to the Frog in the last couple of days, so I decided to sign up there and post the question of when I will be receiving my money.
 
i think that will be a good move . maybe every turn he needs to see your face (as to say) this has all gone to far . if he can't pay back the full amount . he needs to start sending at least half . he gets money every week . he does not want to tell you where he sells cause he is afraid you are going to call. so to me he needs to sell more........
 
ntfish said:
I have had no contact from Chris in the last ten days. This has been his trademark(poor communication). I did see that he had time to make several posts on Talk to the Frog in the last couple of days, so I decided to sign up there and post the question of when I will be receiving my money.
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Thats a good idea.

Its getting cold now, water snakes may be hard to catch.


Water Snakes

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Guys
Chris sent my Water Snakes as promised.I got them this afternoon.He even called me at work 3 times during the process.He called to see if they arrived ok.
Thanks,
Eric
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No water snakes for me. I paid $235.00 for five beardies that I never received. The story was he oversold them, but wait, later on a different story; His roommate sold them while he was out of town. He also told Toni, not once, but twice, that her refund had been sent. I guess the third time's the charm!
 
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