• 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.
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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 Ryan Trude

Karl Buckler

Karl Buckler

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This is a Heads up on Ryan Trude: This individual gets very irrate and nasty if not given offers on inquiries as well as being very offensive and Intrusive:

Karl: okay. How much for the 2 Female Hatchling vanilla spotnose?

Ryan: $800
Open to working something out if it's realistic. That's just what they're worth to me.

Karl:
ah.....I cannot get anywhere near close to that for the female spots. I do thank you very much for your time and effort.

Ryan: Where can u get to?
I would like to sell them in as big of a group as possible but won't give them away.
You won't find Vanilla Spotnoses ANYWHERE else.
Or most of anything else I have.

Karl:
I'm just not going to be able to come close to what you need. Thank You Ryan very much. I'm sure they will all sell very quickly. Take Care Sir, Karl

Ryan:
Haha...yeah right.
Just give me the lowball. I wanna know. What would you spend on the 5 of them together?

Karl:
Sorry, that's not how I do Business. Good Day

Ryan:
What are u talkin about? You obviously have an offer in mind, what is it?

Karl:
I am no longer interested. I now feel you are being rather intrusive. Please refrain from messaging me. Thank You

Ryan:
Haha...fuck you jerk off. This isn't a business anymore. It's a bunch of time wasting shit talkers.

Karl:
Go cry to your mama lol

Ryan:
Blow me. So done with all of you douchebags.
 
Was this conversation done through email?


Karl I would have cut the conversation short right after the lowball comment. You were very courteous. It seems to me from stuff I have sold, that if one puts something up for sale there can be all sorts of inquiries, and not all of them will end up with a sale.

I hope the seller learns some customer service, and I'm sorry you had to deal with that conversation.
 
Aaaawwww, Karl posted bad words! He should be banned right now!
I'm gonna tell. :> poke2 <:
 
Utta said:
How about you stop being an immature little brat.
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I assume that is beyond his capability.

I do not think this really warrants a BG thread. An Info thread sure, but a BG just for someone being a jerk is "meh". Seems like Ryan is going to manage to turn it into one anyway.

Time will tell.

Either way, you really should post screen shots of the convo with the vulgarity blacked out because the way you posted it, Karl, could have been easily tampered with.
 
I have those screen shots. again sorry bout the vulgarity not being blocked out. If this escalates, I will post the screen shots with curse words blacked out :)
 
You should post them now.

You're the one that escalated it by posting a BG thread when it wasn't really warranted.

The burden of proof that this is how the conversation happened lies on you.
 
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Guys, the ONLY person who can determine whether any bad guy thread is really needed is the person who posts it. This person thought it was. Some of you think it wasn't. It's not YOUR thread, it's his. You're entitled to your opinions and to make your comments, but calling into question the validity of this is a bit much. You'd think the same, I think, were you the OP.

I've personally dealt with mr. trude. His word means nothing to him.
 
I thought the BOI was for actual dealings
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http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8880

"This forum is designed to serve the purpose of giving anyone interested in the buying and selling of herptile related merchandise the opportunity to inquire about, or find already existing information concerning a person or business with whom they are considering doing business with."
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Mr. Buckler made an inquiry. The animals in question were out of his price range so he respectfully let Ryan know right off the bat. Ryan then goaded him to give a low-ball offer, which was also respectfully declined.

The conversation should have been done, right then and there. Instead, Ryan wants to know "what would you spend on the 5 of them together?"; Gimme an offer, gimme an offer, after Karl has already declined and signed off more than once.

Ryan then continues with profane insults when he doesn't get his way. OP posts here and Ryan actually shows up here at Fauna to taunt and insult some more.

Hello .. who is the more respectable, credible?

(PS Karl, you need to censor the banned words better ... one blacked out letter doesn't cut it)
 
The conversation should have ended twice.

Karl sunk to Ryan's level in the end and baited him into another insult. So, in terms of him being more respectable or credible, I guess you can say that up to that point. What I see though is someone who got a kick out of the overreaction and instead of walking away from it like a mature person, they joined in on it to get a further then posted a Bad Guy thread about it to take even one more step rather than just make it an Info thread. Probably under the hope that Ryan would melt down. Which, honestly, I half expected him too, but it seems that is not the case.

This is just petty to me. On both ends.
 
Hey Karl, I just finally paid enough attention to your whining to notice something...How bout you show them the WHOLE thread of us going back and forth for hours. You requesting all kinds of pics. Going this way, going that way. You know...the way it actually went. You wanna shine a light on what a good little ball boy you are, you should get ALL of the credit. So where's the rest, sweetie? Is there enough room to post it? I'd do it but I couldn't care less. I'll let you handle it.
 
bobbafett said:
So if someone's rude to me on Facebook, I can make a bad guy thread on them?

I thought the BOI was for actual dealings.


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So you would rather wait until the "deal" is "complete" before you post? Would that include not posting on a scammer until after you've paid ?:rolleyes:
 
Make that going back and forth for DAYS. I just looked at it again.
Do you people really hold this crap in any regard whatsoever? Petty. Pointless. Pathetic.
 
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