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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 John Rodoff is trying to scam people WARNING

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I just wanted to warn people about John Rodoff (email [email protected] )

I had posted a wanted ad for Anery boas on this site as well as others, and one of the replies I received was from John Rodolf.
Here is a copy of his first email:

To: [email protected]
Subject: Message about: Anery Morphs Wanted
From: [email protected] Add to Address Book


hello,
I just want to inform u that i have Anery Morphs for sale.
please contact me ASAP.
thanks.


And here was my reply:

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:48:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Aircapital Constrictors" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book
Subject: Re: Message about: Anery Morphs Wanted
To: [email protected]


Hello,

I am interested. Please send pics, age, what they are eating, and how much you are asking.

Thanks




Shane Elliott
http://aircapitalconstrictors.com

And his reply:

From: "john rodoff" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book
To: "Aircapital Constrictors" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: Message about: Anery Morphs Wanted
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:34:40 +0000


the pics are attached.

please get back to me ASAP
thanks.


Now for the scam part. The photos he sent are as follows.

TypeII_Anery.jpg

I recognized this photo right away. I knew I had seen it on another website. So I did a search, and sure enough. This was Tom Burke's Type II Anery (that’s right.. a type II.. not a normal anery).
So I contacted Tom about this, and he informed me that he did in fact sell this boa to Peter Kahl (http://www.pkreptiles.com/)about a year ago, but he didn’t think that Peter would have resold it.

So now for the second pic

anery_2_04.jpg

This one I didn’t recognize as fast, but it did look familiar. When I did a search for it. I found out that this is actually Ralph Davis' (http://www.ralphdavisreptiles.com/) type II anery.
Well, I just got off the phone with Ralph, and he informed me that this boa is still in his care.


I do have a couple more emails from this individual, and I would be glad to post them, but basically he tells me that the boa in the first pic is WC, and that he would take 145.00 plus 80 for shipping and handling for it.
Then he tells me that he is from Africa, and that he would want the payment sent via Air Mail, or by transfer.

I have not contacted Mr. Rodoff yet to let him know that I know what he is trying to pull. I was hoping to get an address first, but since he says he is from Africa I don’t think it would do any good.
 
What the hell is the matter with people these days?
People just are not figuring it out. If a deal sounds too good, it probably is. Good research Shane!
 
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