• 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.

Bad Guy tinmantribe5 - Shawn Lewis

your confused there amanda those are shawns dragons. The two that died were ours so there not in that link so nice try . please stop making lies ( this is a lie you just came up with becase u assumed ) Example 1
 
joseydiann said:
I know Dean that is what I'm saying, I should juts give it up.. Because there is no way for me to ship overnight or UPS.. It is 3 hours away. There is a drop off a hour away but I don't like to leave my reptiles there..
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Suncoast Herpetological said:
In all honesty Amanda, if you are unable to ship properly due to your location you shouldn't be shipping at all. I am no saying that anything Shawn has said has any merit at all (the opposite actually). However, second day shipping is simply unacceptable


You could consider arranging a single shipping day every week or two and dealing with the long round trip to UPS. If that isn't an option then your sarcastic comment about "giving it up" is probably what you need to do. There are always shows you can do if shipping is not an option. I know that i would never purchase anything from someone who only shipped second day

Just one opinion
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Amanda, Harlan is absolutely right. If you cannot ship correctly, you should do local business only until there is way for you to ship out that is acceptable, not only for the animals but for the consumer as well. With SYR going down and my last FedEx ordeal, I am going to broaden my horizons and do more shows further away, like Ill. (which is a 12 hour drive from where I live).I used to only want to do shows within a 5 hour driving distance, until recently. Now I have broadened that to 12 hours one way and select shows so far away.
 
Dean means that John is correct...though he may agree with Harlan's statement, as well.
 
I'm still confused why there is no proof of any more emails yet. Are there any more? Are there pics of the so called sick dragons?
 
If you will look in some of my ads, if any are still up. You'll see where it says "if you want to buy the snakes please contact me about the shipping" as we are hours from the UPS office. In fact I found it.


Note: For those interested in the snakes, you may have to be patient and work with us on the shipping date. We have drive 1 1/2 hours to the nearest UPS drop off and we work so will have to somehow squeeze time in to get them shipped

Yes we can get to the UPS office 3 hours away, however I can not guarantee when it will be, like if it will be on Monday or Wednesday, we have to work around stupid odd work hours or wait for a day off work to go ship them..

So I probably did tell your friend that..

But it makes things hard and don't look right when someone pays for an animal and I have to be like wellllll it might be next week sometime before I can ship, then next week comes and the work hours change or you get called in to work on your day off and you have to tell them welllll again sorry but we can't make the 3 hour drive to ship your reptile today either lol.

So as you can see I'm not being a smart** when I say I might as well just give it up I mean because of that..
 
Sissy's Midwest Morphs said:
your confused there amanda those are shawns dragons. The two that died were ours so there not in that link so nice try . please stop making lies ( this is a lie you just came up with becase u assumed ) Example 1
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So do we get to see the videos and photos of the dragons to decide for ourselves or are you deciding that for all of us? The odd thing here is that Amanda never questioned if the dragon was dead until I asked her if she saw proof.

IF they are Shawns dragons, shouldnt Shawn be posting on here stating that, instead of you?
 
NO there are no pics of the "sick" dragon, just pics of the healthy dragon that was supposed to be so frail and sick when he got it, go to his profile and see her. He was showing her off everywhere and saying how pretty and great she was..

I don't get it, but I'm bout done. If she was so sick and frail and smaller as he says WHY did he not let me know???

That is so upsetting..

And yes he did delete me and leave a nasty comment on my profile, he would not reply to me as to why either.

So how could I work something out with him?
 
Sorry I will work on getting the emails, but was told I have to edit them to remove bad language ect..
 
Yeah I'm so stupid I was totally going to take his word for it, if he said she died then I trusted him and would have replaced her. It was Dean that asked me about photos and I was like humm I didn't get any..
 
Amanda, post emails with headers please.
 
Also, Amanda do you have photos of the dragons in question before they were sent. It would be nice to have those posted for comparison shots, especially if you could take screen shots of photos you say tinmantribe posted after recieving them.
 
Dont get me wrong Amanda as the dragon(s) (I am lost as to how many dragons are supposedly dead now) may be dead. But, all I wanted for you to do is have proof and be able to have some sort of communication with Shawn regarding this.

Do I think that you would have taken care of the problem at hand, sure why wouldnt you have. I do see a serious failure of communication here, as well as possible BS too. After all, why wont Shawn post here proving his case that you would do absolutely nothing for a friend to get your final payment of 75.00.
 
That is easy he has pic's of them or her on his profile in his albums from the day or day after he got her.

And he said she was wonderful and perfect..
 
Sorry Amanda. Must have sent the message at the same time.

And amanda, UPS has a pickup option. Weather you're to far away, I don't know.
 
I sent 4 total to Shawn for cash and 2 to them to him or Ben or whoever I guess for the snakes. All are still alive but one.

Honestly, swear to god, I def. would have replaced her with something. As I told you (Dean) the night it happened I was out of trans but could have even offered him baby VC's, corns, or BP's as he was a friend. I was not worried about the 3 day guarantee at the time.
 
we got 5 lizards on 6-18 , 4 are alive 1 died . previous....The two that died were from the first batch(4) of lizards that we recieved from you couple months ago ,
 
Sissy's Midwest Morphs said:
your confused there amanda those are shawns dragons. The two that died were ours so there not in that link so nice try . please stop making lies ( this is a lie you just came up with becase u assumed ) Example 1
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Benjamin, care to explain how (in the video) someone states that "these dragons are from Amanda" if she has it wrong?

joseydiann said:
Videos!!!!!!!!!! Of the s"upposed to be dead" dragons I sent Shawn..

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tinmantribe5
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Nice videos, especially the one with the Sulcatas that cannot turn around.:rolleyes:

joseydiann said:
I sent 4 total to Shawn for cash and 2 to them to him or Ben or whoever I guess for the snakes. All are still alive but one.

Honestly, swear to god, I def. would have replaced her with something. As I told you (Dean) the night it happened I was out of trans but could have even offered him baby VC's, corns, or BP's as he was a friend. I was not worried about the 3 day guarantee at the time.
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I dont question whether or not you would have taken care of him. You said you talked to him everyday for a year. I personally would not put a friendship out on 75.00 or a dead animal that I could replace so I believe you would have taken care of him. Just my opinion though so...
 
I have one problem with both videos that you linked too, none of them are of Lucy. By the way I am also the friend that Shine was talking about. I offered you 150 shipped for that dragon and you refused telling me that your dragon was worth more then a 100 dollars, so if that meant that 50 dollars was for shipping. How did you get that estimate when you ship USPS 2nd day Amanda? That question is what bothered me and had me pass on that dragon.
 
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