Experience with KINGSNAKE Website

Originally Posted by Serafim

I can understand how a small time breeder would rather go to a site that gives them more exposure.

Funny I think it's easier for a small breeder like me to advert on smaller sites because I've fewer animals.

I've not advertised on KS yet have sold out each year since I started breeding. I do local plus on-line sales. It may be easier to list on KS, but I have avoided it because I've felt they are too confusing to deal with & I just don't care for the way they do stuff.

I too have posted on trades, and posted ads like "dont pay petstore price" and have had them pulled because of some TOS, but like some have mentioned. I have had ads go for a few days without issues, and I guess someone gets bored at work and decideds to pull my ad. I dont bother fighting only because they dont reply, that and whats the point, I'd rather suck it up for now and sell something fast on there site despite they're rules and regulations, than be stuck reposting for weeks on end like on fauna (no offense, I had account here too, and paid).

But anyhow... heck I'll setup a site, I'll call it KingCobra.com and it will smoke kingsnake.com its all about having those "Big Breeder" names in your site and they're partcipation.

Sites come & go without traffic. Seen some good ones, far better than KS bite the dust due to lack of traffic. The BOI here draws, in spite of some tendency for drama... so it's just a matter of adjusting the classifieds. IMHO it could be stream-lined... no posts needed there, just give options for contacting the seller. There is also Repster (sp? -I just found out about that one), Reptile geeks, Reptile Planet as well. I'm sure there are more than that... instead of reinventing the wheel, we should promote what's already there IMHO.

In other news, man invents the wheel. Smoke signals at 11.

Originally Posted by critical bill

In other news, man invents the wheel. Smoke signals at 11.

Naw, stick with the internet, man! Smoke is sooo passe.

Originally Posted by critical bill

In other news, man invents the wheel. Smoke signals at 11.

What was the last smoke signal..... I missed it lol

Originally Posted by Gary O

What was the last smoke signal..... I missed it lol

Ahhhhh ya know, when KS comes up as a topic of conversation about their terms of service and how they ban people, its just soooo old news. I mean somewhere in a cave there's gotta be a drawing or something maybe even chiseled into rock about KS and the crummy way they have treated people. Might even find something in a pyramid about it. Not to say Harb doesn't have a legitimate right to gripe about it here. I do love a good gripe. Its just the same old story from a new storyteller.

Ok...time for bed.

Originally Posted by critical bill

Ahhhhh ya know, when KS comes up as a topic of conversation about their terms of service and how they ban people, its just soooo old news. I mean somewhere in a cave there's gotta be a drawing or something maybe even chiseled into rock about KS and the crummy way they have treated people. Might even find something in a pyramid about it. Not to say Harb doesn't have a legitimate right to gripe about it here. I do love a good gripe. Its just the same old story from a new storyteller.

Ok...time for bed.

I do enjoy a good soliloquy.

As I type this, there are over 1,300 people on Fauna right now. Posting in the forums is not happening. It is people being active that is missing here. Back when I first joined, Fauna was extremely active in all the forums and each had an interaction that KS drooled over. Post after post sharing info, photos, and BSing with each other, Fauna was hopping, the discussion forums were on the move. At the time, we had an average of 150-300 people online. When a big scumbag was being called out, you would see 500 people online at a given time all reading the BOI.

There is more traffic today then there was a couple of years ago. The difference is that there are less people posting today then there was back then. To much of a rift and infighting occurred, as a result, people seem to be afraid to post on Fauna.

Forget about the traffic, we need the interaction. We have over 1,300 people online and they are not participating in the discussion forums, they are just onlooking wannabes.

I am calling all of you out right now!

Jeff Signoretti and I have a lot invested together in a few of the animals I list. I had 7 ads removed in one week. The reason? Same as yours: They said I can't mention his name in my ads. I totally understand how you feel, although I haven't had money stolen.

I started changing how I worded my ads, and I haven't had any removed since. That may not work for brokers, though, obviously.

KS has some absolutely STUPID E-mails, too, lol!

Good luck, and don't kill anybody, rofl!

-Jesse Dameron