• 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.
  • 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.

Terry Scott Of Scottsserpents.com Bad Business Man Owes Me $420.00. Warning!!!!!!

Lucille,
I do not condone shipping snakes USPS. And you may certainly choose to not deal with anyone who has admitted to doing it in the past. I also recommended he not do it again. I am all eyes and ears to the survey you have showing where a seller's business has dipped because they admitted to a past USPS shipment of a serpent, not to be confused with any current business should he continue to try to ship USPS. We also know that the USPS is loathe to enforce it, which if they did, certainly would cause a problem. :slamit:
 
Jim,

The question you posed to Lucille is very difficult to answer. There’s no doubt in my mind there are people who don’t mind knowingly breaking the law. The question is if it’s that easy to find a partner in crime repeatedly. In the present case “it takes two to tango” as it is as guilty the one who sent the animal as the one who agreed to it. It would be highly doubtful though that a snake seller who uses USPS for shipping will have repeated customers among those who don’t agree to break the law.

Regards
 
Dan,

It would be highly doubtful though that a snake seller who uses USPS for shipping will have repeated customers among those who don’t agree to break the law.
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I believe that to be both a very true and very safe statement. BTW, I posed no question to Lucille, so you lost me there.

IMO Lucille, maybe you need to go back and re-read everyone's posts. IMO, my position that "admission to a one-time shipping of a serpent by USPS was not going to have a negative effect on his future business" was IMO. IMO I based the "O" on 37 years of experience, my first snake ever shipped being an Eastern Indigo via USPS Air Mail Special Delivery, circa 1969, when I was 14. IMO I have had a couple of reptile transactions since as well. I hope we are not on some inevitable path to where every sentance must begin with the acronym "IMO", IMO. :) Good luck Matt!
 
Let's see, we have a guy who didn't get paid.

We have a guy who shipped illegally.

We have jimbo talking about crap that happened ALMOST THIRTY YEARS AGO.

Who is this thread about and what is it about? Something tells me that it ain't jimbo's dealings with USPS from the 60s.

terry scott/sanchez whatever his name is, is a flat out scumbag.

I THOUGHT this thread was about him stealing.

Are there NOT several other threads about shipping USPS? Would not THERE be a better place to discuss your criminal, yeah yeah I know it was legal back then, past jimbo?

I'm still curious, though not really concerned as you DO bring humor wherever you go, WHY this is about you again, jimbo.
 
Wes :rofl: :rofl:
Would not THERE be a better place to discuss your criminal, yeah yeah I know it was legal back then, past jimbo?

I'm still curious, though not really concerned as you DO bring humor wherever you go, WHY this is about you again, jimbo.
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Viewing audience ... and Wes ! Let's see. I made a post supportive of Matt, and very much in sync with your views there BTW, although a bit more polished. And Lucille replied to me :shrug01: .... a double !! And then Dan struck up a converation with my name at the beginning :shrug01: And now you can't leave my name out of it, and are asking me questions, and then wondering "Why". :bleep: Do you have "Jim on the brain?" Try the other side of he bed to get up on tomorrow. I was one heck of a 14 year old criminal, and if I find the Fountain of Youth down here, I'll be one again !

Bob aka Griz. If you read this ...... see? Right on cue.
 
Jim,

You lost me completely in pot #38. Now you post this:

[QUOTEBob aka Griz. If you read this ...... see? Right on cue.[/QUOTE]

Now, I'm even more lost...if that's possible at all. Care to elaborate? My mind reading properties are at an all time low today. ;)

Thanks.
 
Dan,

Dan,
#38 was addressed to others who may or may not get what I meant, as none of them raised a concern .... so far. It borrows mildly from other discussions I have had with them recently. Likewise with the other quote you posted. Unless you and Griz are one-and-the-same, I don't expect it would make sense to you. It refers to a discussion he and I had, and did not involve you in any manner.

I guess that my post #43, which was addressed to you, was OK? You mentioned a question which I had posed to Lucille, I think, and I was curious .... kind of "Oh ! I did?", as I had not asked her anything. I agree with the "answer", but hope I didn't miss anything by not knowing the "question" I had asked. :rolleyes: I hope that clarifies things. IMO, of course. Cheers. :beer:
 
fitz said:
undefinedundefinedundefinedI don't know where you get the idea that Paypal will give you money back instantly. It takes at least a month for them to go over the case. Then even if they find it in your favor they will do nothing unless there is money in that account to latch on to. I am telling you from experiance. I won a claim 2 years ago and haven't seen the money. :hot:

Ed
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If paypal was used he would have had his money prior to shipping the animals. There would be no paypal case, no BOI thread, and no one would have been screwed. I can count the number of people I would send anything COD to on one hand. That was my point. Why send anything COD to someone you have never met?
 
Good point John but as they say it's a little late now. Paypal huh well I hate useing paypal you get no real protection from them. Randy
 
I AM WILLING TO ONLY RECEIVE MY 200 BUCKS!!!! PAY ME JERK. YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD. THANKS,
MATT WHITE
I TAKE MO AND DIRECT DEPOSIT.
NOT ANOTHER BAD CHECK.
 
I am still waiting on a settlement from Terry Scott. He promised me 200 and I still have not seen jack squat.
PAY ME,
Matt White
 
I am going to keep posting new replies everyday so this stays on the top of the page. Hopefully this will hurt the little business you do have.
Pay Me TERRY SCOTT
Matt White
 
Dont look at this post.
Pay Me TERRY,
Thanks for viewing
Matt White
 
Mattsgecko said:
Dont look at this post.
Pay Me TERRY,
Thanks for viewing
Matt White
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No, Harald is correct. This is going to get real old, real fast. Everytime you bump all those threads, you knock someone else of the front page. Someone else who may have a better chance of getting paid than you do. He has been suspended from here and can not reply to you. And you know as well as the rest of us, he will never pay you.
 
Matt has been shown the door for this PM. No one will be allowed to threaten ANY of the Mods on this site. He is definitely an unstable individual.

And no Matt, this PM was not ignored.


Mattsgecko said:
I am not going to quit posting on here. What I intend to do is hurt his reputation, or lack of, until I am satisfied. I think that I am about 419 dollars shy of satisfaction. If you had a valid complaint you would want people to here about it so why are you trying to deny me of my rights? I am not happy with this website in general and how you allow certain things to go on. Dennis if your home address was posted on this website how would you feel? Not good huh, maybe worried, worried that your collection is at risk of theft: That animals you have had since you were 18 might be taken from you forever. Then later to be told that it cant be taken off because its policy. That is ridiculous!!!! Maybe I should post all of the super mods and mods home address so you can feel as threatened as I am. I know you cant help me and any responce will be simply ignored. :angry:
Matt White
706-888-6287
Call me if you want to discuss policy.
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