• 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.

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Called up Underground Reptiles the other day and spoke to Rian G., Ryan B. and Zach on a couple occasions. All three were very helpful and polite and answered all my questions. I placed my order last night and I received them bright and early this morning. They were packaged well, just like they show in thier videos.

I ordered an amazon tree boa and asked for them to hand select me a darker one, which they happily did, a 1.1 pair of Candoia carinata carinata and a Jackson's chameleon. I haven't probed the amazon yet, but it is supposed to be a male. Either way he/she is beautiful and pure evil, just like an atb should be. The Candoia turned out to be both female instead of 1.1. Not a problem, I don't intend on breeding them and they both look great! I've never owned one, but always found them interesting. These little gals are so neat and mellow (although the one tried to nab my buddy, but every snake he handles does for some reason). I can't believe how strong these little gals are too just hanging on your wrist! The Jackson's is exactly as described as well. Cool little guy!

I look forward to giving them my business again in the future.

Forgive my crappy cell phone pictures...
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I put money down on a Uroplatus lineatus (lined leaftail gecko) way back in January 2011 and they agreed to hold onto it until better shipping weather rolled around. In that time, I also added a female Uroplatus sikorae (mossy leaftail) to my order. We kept in contact, and when it was time for shipping, Ryan B let me know that the U.lineatus wasn't looking as good as they wanted it to look, so he suggested I wait for a week or two to see if they would be getting another one in. That didn't happen, but they were kind enough to offer a swap...the female lineatus for another female sikorae. I accepted that, and also added on a male sikorae when they agreed to a good price for me. So, I ended out with a 1.2 U.sikorae trio for a great price.

All 3 were shipped the next day and they came to me in absolute perfect condition. I requested geckos with original tails only, which they did for me, and I appreciate it greatly! :) The geckos were fully hydrated and didn't look malnourished or anything like most WC leaftails. I'm not sure who supplies them with their animals, but I was very impressed with these geckos.

One thing I would suggest though is to contact them by phone if possible. They seemed to be very busy folks, and it was sometimes more difficult to get ahold of them and get the information I wanted through emails.

I'll gladly do business with these guys again in the future. They were a pleasure to talk to and really good people to work with. Their animals are great and the transactions went smoothly. Keep it up guys, and you'll have me coming back for more. :)
 
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