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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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Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to let everyone know that I met Keith Blatt at the Pottstown PA show Saturday the 13th. He is working very hard to get his site off the ground. He is very excited about this and seems to be very hard at work getting the word out about the site. He was introduceing himself to all at the show and getting the word out about his site. I posted 5 items up for auction on his site to try and help him out and get some traffic and reptiles on his site. I know I have seen people post on boi how unhappy they are with herpauction.com so here our chance to help get a good auction site started. Take a minute and go and check it out and hopefully post a reptile or two. Who knows maybe I will bid on an item you post. Lets all get together and make a good auction site for ourselves. If anyone has other ideas how to help get this site going please let me know.
scott cook
 
Just a quick post.
I am not associated or do I own anypart of reptileauction.com
I posted the above only because I feel we need a good reptile auction site and Keith seemed to me to be very dedicated to this.
scott cook
 
Just like Scott said!  We would say the same thing ~ we met Keith & his wife Billi Joe at the Pottstown show this Saturday.  We talked extensively about the Reptile Auction.com site.....those two are working very hard to make it a great place to hold auctions!  We are going to give them all the support we can & encourage everybody to do the same <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
We also are not affiliated with them at all (except that they did purchase our beautiful male Dragon & are totally loving him haha).
They are nice folks & we just wanted to post that we totally agree with what Scott stated....let's make this a great site that we can all use & enjoy!
Just our 2 cents ~ Bob & Cecelia Conover "Happy Herps"
 
Hi everyone. I just wanted to say I have posted an animal up for auction at this site and hope to post another shortly. I hope many others will follow our lead and help this become a successful auction site. These people deserve our support so let's do our part to make it happen!

Greg Riso
 
I just registered at this site and really like the way it it set up. It is very user friendly and eye catching. I will definately keep an eye on it for future purchases.
Sacha Skaggs
 
Keith really is working hard to promote the auction website just from what I have observed on the net and from email correspondence with him.  Keith and his wife will also have a booth setup at the Raleigh show May 4th and 5th.  With our support reptileaution will be a asset to all of us.
Tony Cueto
 
Hi Everyone,
Well, I don't know if anyone has been watching Reptileauction.com but people are starting to list items on there and the traffic is picking up. Looks like it is on its way  to being the new reptile auction site to sell on. People are bidding also not just listing items. I even placed a bid!
Scott Cook
 
This site is doing great!!
Over 30 items up for auction now.

Thanks to everyone for helping out.
scott cook
 
Cool site....short on boas, tho.....seems to have mostly lizards listed....where are all the boa auctioneers? LOL
 
I have checked out the site it is rather nice neat and well put together , im not able to post any boas as of yet .. but the good lord willing and the "slugs dont arise " im looking to have some in mid june .I will be more then happy to to post single boas and lots of them on the site to auction off .I am also looking to possibly add some of my cages on the auction block in the very near future! so stay tuned i will let everyone know when i add them on for auction . but as a heads op there will be a min bid to meat just so i cover my @ss lol . stay tuned for more details ...... <img src="http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
 
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