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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.

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I received two adult female ball pythons from John this week, purchased on Morph Market.

To be clear, he had great communication throughout the purchase process, shipped the snakes on time, and the snakes were very healthy, as pictured and as described.

My issue is that both of them were infested with mites(see picture). One in particular had thousands of mites. I emailed him about it right away, but have not heard back. If he emails back, or offers to make things right, I will delete this post or update it. I hope he will reply.

The box they were shipped in was labelled as coming from "Reptiles Express, LLC".

Has anyone else dealt with this gentleman?
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Can you post photos of the snakes to help back your claim? (I am not challenging or doubting you, just a suggestion) I never heard of the guy, but do hope he will respond to you. And just so you know, BOI posts are never removed. You will have to update, whatever the outcome may be, at least until the BOA remains.
 
LauraB said:
Can you post photos of the snakes to help back your claim? (I am not challenging or doubting you, just a suggestion) I never heard of the guy, but do hope he will respond to you. And just so you know, BOI posts are never removed. You will have to update, whatever the outcome may be, at least until the BOA remains.
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Sorry, but that is no longer true. After 02-02-2020, they ALL will be removed.

Just a FYI....
 
Yes, that is why I said "at least until the BOI remains". I guess I was not very clear, lol.
 
LauraB said:
Yes, that is why I said "at least until the BOI remains". I guess I was not very clear, lol.
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:rofl: I guess the "BOA remains" is what threw me....
 
Oh, I am dying of laughter here. I did not realize until just a few moments ago I actually wrote "BOA remains". I truly thought I wrote BOI even after you posted, Rich, hence my dumb response. That said, RIP any BOA remains. I hope it was quick and painless :)
 
I am not sure how to post a picture. I inserted a shared link from my Google Drive to share the picture. But I do not know how to just upload a picture like normal.
 
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Ok, here is the picture of the water tub I soaked her in overnight.
 

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