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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.

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They have some albinos & hets for sale. Has anyone had any dealings with them or heard anything good or bad? I don't have any name to go with email address that is only info ad has along with a phone number.
Thanks
Chris Pearson
 
Ward is a straight shooter. I got a female albino from him last year and she was everything he said she was. He is cool to deal with. I know he had about 3 gravid female albinos so don't worry about buying anything from him.

Mike Jones
 
Mike,
Are you sure we're talking about same person I did profile check on aol & it says name is Jen
Member Name: Jen
Location: Colorado
Sex: Female
Hobbies: LARP ~~ World Travel, Co-Founder and MST of Veldrin Dusk til Dawn:The Chronicles WWORP email WSkyMareilleW for Details
Computers: A Gateway that is a pain in the butt!
Occupation: Nurse
Personal Quote: "Caught between Heaven and Hell, Good and Evil, Pleasure and Pain, over one night of choice and consequence."
                    DO NOT IM me to find out Intimate Details.  I am not interested.  They have 900 numbers for that crap!
 
CALL WARD AT 813-684-9404
I went to his ad and copied this number. He lives in Florida. I would call him on the phone. I know he has a wife and at least a teenage boy. If this is the ad you are talking about then like I said you have nothing to worry about. Ward doesn't
want people emailing him because he is not a computer guy and it might be days before he gets an email. He would just assume someone call him. As far as the profile I have no idea. Maybe he or his wife have a sense of humor. Call him and ask him. I sent him a pair of womas last year in trade for an adult albino. He sent it immediately. If you talk to him ask him if he still has the male woma with an attitude like Satan. If he know what you are talking about then don't sweat it.

Mike Jones
913-677-1608
 
I didn't have a good experience with him.  A few years ago I bought a "pair" of cresteds from him for 250.  He sent a me an "extra" one that he thought was another female.  He sent it for free because it looked like the hunch back of notre dame.  He swore up and down that they were a 1.1 pair and he knew that because the female gave him eggs before hibernation.  Well, the pair he sent me turned out to be a pair of males.  Obviously he sent the deformed female because he knew he sent me 2.0.   I called him and his remedy was for me to buy another pair, not a even give me a discount or something on a lone female, but BUY a PAIR.  Who the hell wants three male cresteds?  I would never buy from him again or trust him.  I especially WOULD NEVER get a het from him.

Ciro Spina
 
I for one can say that i will never do any business with this man again. 4+ years ago i bought 3 supposidly captive bred normal columbians from this flick. When they showed up i found 3 dark C.A. boas instead, That upset me alot but the petstore said that they would still take them. I knew that these were imports so i told them that i would hold on to them for afew weeks to make sure they would feed and were in good health. Well not only did i get C.A. boas instead of columbians but i also got sick puking imports instead of C.B. healthy babies. So I took them to the vet and forked over some dough for the sake of the animals. I was not surprised at all to find out that they were loaded with internal parasites. To wrap this up, after afew more weeks two of the animals died one survived. Let me tell you one thing for the overall cost of that C.A. boa he should've touched his toes. My general concensus of this man is that he is decietful and not one to be trusted. However this is only my personal opinion, Who knows maybe he found god.

Corey Greene
 
Twice as many bad posts then good posts is enough of a warning for me not to chance it.
Thanks for your help
Chris Pearson
 
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