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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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Info Steve Gooditis-Big Snake Sale Ad.

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Just making sure this info is available in case the ad goes down.

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It is an info thread....to make sure people are aware of how Steve is caring for his animals. It has everything to do with his character as a hobbyist or businessman in this industry.

People may also like to be aware of what they could be purchasing from him, the health and condition of the animals in question.

Not that I think anyone should give this guy money, but thats just my personal opinion.
 
Mainly...when he freaks out and removes his ad to try and hide his errors, the information will still be available to the public =)
 
How can someone put those pictures up in a sales ad???:ack2:

SO disgusting. What horrible living conditions these poor things are in.
 
A few others from another ad....just to show the full enclosures of course...these are saved images instead of screenshots.

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such nice enclosures too....so much wasted space inside of them that could be filled with hides and substrate and WATER!! :shrug01:
 
Those conditions are repulsive. Can you imagine introducing the parasites and/or pathogens those animals are likely to be carrying into your collection?
 
I agree about the conditions and the need to be informed, but from the pictures its appears that Steve could be quiet young. I am hoping this is a case of significant inexperience and youthful lack of realization in regard to his animal husbandry.

Hopefully this is a situation that someone local to him can help him to correct.
 
Young or not...he dove into the hobby...and he dove in deep, that comes with responsibility...even as a child I knew how to properly care for animals...If something seemed wrong, I asked my parents (my parents would have murdered me if my animals looked like this)

If nothing seems wrong to him (judging by his lack of concern for even posting pics like these) we have a deeper issue then just him being young and inexperienced.
 
and if he is to young to know what the heck is going on....then who is making all the adult decisions such as buying, selling and housing these animals?

where the heck are kids parents these days
 
This is just sick. I agree, even when i was young I kept all my animals in wonderful conditions. I also didn't keep large snakes with little experience. Even now I don't have large snakes mainly due to lack of room, but people should think about what they are getting themselves into before it gets bad, like this.
 
Is the water bowl in the retics cage upside down?
 
I would like to note, since I forgot to add it to the thread title

Steve's username here on fauna is Reptile123
 
I am not disagreeing with anything that has been said; I just think that we all come from a little bit different places and so we make some different mistakes in our youth and sometimes don't understand the severity of our actions.

Accordingly, my question is this a situation where someone has knowingly been cruel, or is it something else?

Either way, I hope someone local can step in and help the animals!
 
Steve's friend feels the need to explain...mites as well apparently...hope they told the person who bought the snakes (if someone really did)

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>> has knowingly been cruel, or is it something else?

In this day of Internetting, there's absolutely no excuse for conditions like that. The fact of the matter is that if you are posting sale pics like THAT, you obviously have no idea that you're doing something wrong. Normal people aren't going to post a picture of them with the flu as their Match.com profile pic, why would you do that with your snakes you're trying to sell?

Clean up the shed, fill the dishes, wipe the glass down. Unless your plan is to show that you're selling mistreated animals, in which case, do -this-.

SMH
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