• 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.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

How can todzilla176 sell ball pythons for $25 shipped

I can't add to this without posting 3rd party information (which I mistakenly did earlier, but no edit on the BOI). I did tell him about this thread, and provided a link...from his response, I doubt he will come to comment (no, it wasn't any of the expected scammer/bad guy type responses).
 
Actually, one thing that I can point out - the kid lives in WI...the location from the ad that started all this was Washington, DC
 
I'm going to step in here and clarify a few things. First of all, the user in question is a female, her name is Macey. She is 14 and lives in northern Wisconsin -- my home state. I've known her for awhile and she is just getting into ball pythons. We've spoken via e-mail for months and I've talked to her on the phone many times. I've been trying to help her learn everything she can because just like her, I was young and new to this hobby at one point. She doesn't understand everything there is to know yet, and understandably so at her age. The part about "$25 shipped" was most likely a mistake on her part and she would have corrected it if someone pointed it out to her.

The "story" she gave you, Harold, is true. She has a friend of the family that lives in D.C. (not too far from where I was stationed, actually) and Macey sells the lady's snakes for her here on Fauna and on other websites. It saves the seller time because she works a full time job. In return, Macey gets free babies as payment.

Nothing about her ads was illegal because you would not be doing business with her...you'd be doing it with the actual seller. Every bit of contact info within the ad was the seller's info, not Macey's. All she's doing is posting the ads, that's it.
 
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