• 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.

Northwest Florida Herp?

CalicoDragons

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Hello Everybody,
I am posting on this BOI for the first time to see if anybody knows anything about this guy that goes by the name of Northwest Florida Herp? I sold him some dragons last year and never had any problems with him so I couldn't even remember for sure if he was the same person I sold to when I first saw him post ads on Kingsnake. But low and belong he has some of the babies I sold him for sale and has mentioned my name in there bloodlines. I wasn't bothered at first when he didn't answer my e-mails. Which I just wrote him to say hello and see how all of his dragons where doing. Its none of my business if he wishs to sell them later but I was just trying to be nice and say hi. Well I never heard back from him so I thought maybe he is just a busy person and take a good bit of time to get back to you. Like 2 months time. But when he placed a dragon on KS that I sold him and is selling it with the wrong info I e-mailed him again. I don't know if I maybe over reacting about this whole matter but I am 100% certain that he is wrong about its linage and I believe that the buyers have the right to know the correct info. And also if they were buying to breed later. Well I feel that I have given him plenty of time to write back but have still heard nothing. He is selling one of our 100% het trans saying its from Dachiu lines. I think he is just being forgetful since I did sell him a trans we produced that was in fact from a Dachiu het female that was lent to us by Vickie and Rob Dachiu. But the 100% het trans he has up is from my own lines and doesn't have a lick or Dachiu blood in it. I think as a breeder ppl should know this. I also know he is getting my e-mails and ignoring them while still posting the wrong information. I wrote him a very nice e-mail saying I think he could be mistaken. I was as polite as I could be and didn't set a "I know your wrong" tone to it. Long story short if anybody knows about this gentlemen or has had past dealing with him please let me know. Tell me am I going over board with this? I do have a tendency to do that with all my pets and things in general so I need some outside opinions on this matter.
Thanks
-Amy
www.CalicoDragons.com
 
CalicoDragons said:
Tell me am I going over board with this?
Amy, I don't think that you are. You believe that he is misrepresenting animals and you have informed him of that fact. He has chosen to ignore you. Bringing it here may help potential buyers out.

Send him one last email with a link to this thread and be prepared to document exactly what you have claimed.
 
Thank you for your opinion. I will e-mail him one last time and let him know I have started up a post on Fauna. Maybe then he will answer back :yesnod:
-Amy
 
Yes you are way overboard on this

I know this guy well enough.Iv done a bunch of deals with him.Just for kicks i looked on KS and didn't see what you were talking about.My guess is if you wanted to buy something you would have got an email.I'm sure he like all of us has more emails in a day then we have time to look at.That being said he may of looked at it and changed it but had no reason to email you.Let me say the guy can be a real jerk in a lot of ways.I would tell you but i don't have all day to make the list but when it comes to being honest( most of the time to honest) he is.In the years that iv done deals with him iv always come out well. I do know he ships all over the world and works with many kinds of reptiles.This year he got some kind of cobras to breed in captivity that had never done that before .He had albino tree frogs breed.He has had snakes on national geographic has some other cool stuff in the works.Eather way he is a smart A.. and not always nice.He keeps to him self and i think he just doesn't like many people.Come to think of it why do I buy stuff from this guy lol.
 
Thank you for your opinion about this whole thing. I just think there has been a big misunderstanding. Kenny has taken down the ads and all is well. I am sorry if I did go over board but in all honesty I didn't know Kenny was Northwest. I do know him personally already and I just see so many names out there. And its been so long that I totally forgot that was his business name. I think I may have been hinting at being rude in that first message more so because I didn't recall it was him and from there I was frustrated being I was e-mail this random person and never got back a response. Now I know why and im sorry to Kenny for being rude or even hinting at it in my e-mails or on that message. He is a good guy and like I said I do sometimes go over board about this matters. I am a big person on sells and bloodline info so I get carried away all the time when I see so many people mislabel there dragons. I of course never say much about it because there not directly from me and so I am not involved in that way. Either way it was a misunderstanding and I went a bit over board my apologies.
-Amy Halstrom
 
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