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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.

ReptileAuctioneer.com - New Reptile Auction Page

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ReptileAuctioneer.com is opening it's doors today, July 11th 2014.

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We at ReptileAuctioneer.com sincerely hope to become the largest, easiest to use, and most used venue for auctioning reptiles. Auctions, for better or worse are here to stay. The difference between helping or harming the community as a whole lies greatly with the breeders and buyers that participate in these auctions daily. Several people have covered the views on the online reptile auction community as a whole so I will not rehash that here.

Our goal here at ReptileAuctioneer.com is to bring the most buyers and breeders together in a community that does not require every user to have a large following on another medium. I understand that there are some big names in the reptile auction industry that receives almost (sometimes over) retail for their auctions. This is fine and does nothing to harm the community.

However the smaller breeders that have small followings are receiving drastically under retail for their animals, however they must move them to pay for their hobby. This is due to the relatively low numbers of eyes that actually see their auction. Our goal here is to bring more eyes to that stellar animal produced by a small time breeder so that it is able to reach the level of value that it would with a bigger name. This prevents the drastic decline in prices that we have seen in recent years due to the inability of the small time breeders to reach a big time audience.

I hope you join us in this new marketplace for online auctions where EVERYONE can buy, sell, and trade.

Thank you,

Claude Smith
dba ReptileAuctioneer.com
 
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