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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.

Stolen Turtles, Please Help

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Please let me know if this is not allowed here.

Attention Reptile Friends please let me know if you hear of any Red Eared Slider Morphs being sold in the St Louis area. I had 4 stolen a few days ago. A Robert/ Trish line hypo male, a pastel female, a 100% het albino male and a large normal female. They were taken from the stock tanks in my backyard. Please if you hear of anything please contact me, half of my RES project is gone now. Please share to spread the word. I will pay a reward to anyone with info that leads to getting these turtles back.
 
Hi, Jay. That is terrible news. I have moved it to the Police Blotter section in the hope that it can generate more attention in that section.

Think of the people who knew about your stuff at all. Customers, sellers, people you have had conversations with, and more. Keep a sharp eye out on Fauna, Kingsnake, Facebook, and Craig's List. In my perception, that is not a random theft.
 
Jay, if you have photos of your stock, those morphs .... anything, any photos that might help to ID if someone in your area (or someone who even uses a fictitious location) advertises to sell them, then please post here and on other herp/turtle forums you may participate in.

Nick is correct; who, locally, might have shown interest in your stock? More interest than just the local kids who like turtles?

I've had stock stolen; I should have seen it coming when I confronted the same grown man twice sneaking around in my side yard and later my back yard before the theft. I yelled and threated to call the cops and he left both times. Then I was robbed a couple weeks later when I was at work.

I was naïve and stupid, and definitely NOT suggesting you are stupid or naïve, but yeah, think about those most "interested" lately.
 
I agree that this was not a random theft. I have one person who I suspect might be involved with this, as not many people knew that I even had RES morphs let alone that I was keeping them outside during the warm months of the year. I am looking through pictures now for recent ones of the stolen turtles, I will post pictures when I find some decent ones.
 
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