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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.

Warning: ABOUT JAMES SHAEFFER

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[Hello,I am wanting to warn every Body about a guy named James Shaeffer([email protected]) From Newton Ohio. He cheated me in a trade; We had made a deal to trade a snake i had for a snake he had,well we agreed to ship them both of on the same day and i went down and shiped mine off but come to find out he did not do the same. I called and called and also emailed him that if he was not going to stick to the deal that he needed to send my snake back.Well its been a month and a half and still nothing. well now he will not return my phone calls or return my emails,so now i don't know what to do,I lost money shipping him the snake and lost my snake also. so if any one knows of anything that i could do let me know please;my email is [email protected]; WEll i guess i did a stupid thing and sent my snake , its a hard lesson learned Thanks for listening Richard R Hynes
 
Sorry To hear about this. I know it sucks. Could you provide as much info about the tansaction as you can. Emails addresses source of payment shipping agents...... Any added info may help find this guy..
 
Sorry, that profile is not from here it is from Pet Hobbyist.
 
As John said, You should post all contact info you have on him like phone number, shipping address & his email address. Does he know about this thread?
 
Have you contacted the police dept. in Newton Falls? I would call them to file a complaint and see if there is anything that they can do.

You can find their number here City Of Newton Falls. It's (330) 872-5758.

What address did you ship to? What snakes were involved? How was this trade started? Also can you post any e-mails of your transaction? Any other contact info would be nice as well.
 
Going to be a tough one to pursue. Being a minor there may be little anyone can do to recover lost funds but if you had his parents information I would start by calling them
 
Serafim said:
Going to be a tough one to pursue. Being a minor there may be little anyone can do to recover lost funds but if you had his parents information I would start by calling them
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Profile for Burm88
Date Registered 07/17/04
Posts 133
Birthday 1988-06-02
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Seems his over 18
 
kmurphy said:
Profile for Burm88
Date Registered 07/17/04
Posts 133
Birthday 1988-06-02

AIM lpdu7
Yahoo jes159
Location Newton falls, ohio
Interests Burmese pythons
Occupation High school
About Me My name is James Shaeffer, I am 17 and i have been housing reptiles for about 10 years.
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Sorry I didn't read the whole thing Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I guess people don't update their info....
 
That kid looks like he's barely over the age of 12, then again, looks can be deceiving. =/
 
oh fyi, regardless of age, there is negligence involved with this transaction, and therefore if this james person was under the age of 18, then his parents would have to assume responsibility of returning the snake or an equal cash value for it. But apparently looks as if James is now of age and all responsibility will fall on him.

I definately would contact the local authorities in his town and report the issue. If this has been well over a month ago, the you can definately say that theft of services was involved. And most definately keep us updated on your progress, and dont forget to let this james kid know about the thread so he has the opportunity to defend his side of the story.
 
garweft said:
Have you contacted the police dept. in Newton Falls? I would call them to file a complaint and see if there is anything that they can do.

You can find their number here City Of Newton Falls. It's (330) 872-5758.

What address did you ship to? What snakes were involved? How was this trade started? Also can you post any e-mails of your transaction? Any other contact info would be nice as well.
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Hello the addressi shiped to was 418south canal st. in Newton Ohio,the snake involved was a Labyrinth Burmese male ; He contacted me threw faunaclassifieds and he told me that he had a striped boa that he wanted to know if i wanted to trade for him,I said yes and we were supose to send them out on the same day. I have the emails that he sent me if i can get my wife to help me i'll try to get them to send out.
 
To every one that replied to my add;Thanks for the interest. I didn't know that he was only 17, he had contacted me when i posted a ad for my Labyrinth for sale on fauna.and he told me that his buissness partnerswould not ship first but they agreed to ship on the same day. then he tried to say the snake was sick and had to take to the vet,but when i ask him to send me copys of the vet bills and to send my snake back i did not hear back from himfor about a week.at that time he still said that he was going to send me the other snake.now its been a month and half and still no snake or vet bills and no word from him.
 
Anyone interested in a copy of the emails between James and myself....Please send me a email address and I would be glad to forward you a copy.

Thanks
Richard
 
NASA

Did you guys check out his photo on KS? My Lord! Those ears are monstrous! I am sure that NASA could use those to reflect the sun away from the Hubbell, or something!

Also, read the comments under his photo-they are amusing to say the least!

Gino Beniquez
 
Good thing I found out about this thread. I was planning on doing business with him. I was weary at first as he looked like he was 12. But he was buying a snake from me. I told him as he said he lived with his parents that they would have to say it was ok and all that before I would sell to him. But we talked over time and he was waiting on money to get to him before he would buy anything. He actually told me that he got a Laby male burm but he said he bought it. Now I know he is definately shady so I won't even sell to him. He backed out of a lot of deals I offered after the fact he accepted them and all that and luckily I didn't get the animals he wanted in (Triple Het Moonglow Boas) or I would be out money. He always wanted me to deliver the snake and he would never come pick it up at the Cleveland Reptile Show or meet somewhere. Always had to be delivered. Hence why I never did a deal cause without the snake fully paid for with delivery charge I would not go all the way to someones house and then have their parents or whoever they live with say they can't have it. But he always seemed shady to me and now I know he is for sure. Thanks for the warning.
 
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