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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.
  • 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.

Bad Guy “Sunset Hypo” scammer strikes again

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“Sunset Hypo” scammer strikes again

Wanda and Joe Patterson AKA “Sunset Hypo” have done it again. They told me they had 2 large proven Brazilian females with the very hard to find yellow heads available. They were supposedly bred to Hypo redfoot males and had proven themselves last year. When I asked for pics they said I could see them on Kingsnake.com ad. I arranged to pick them up on my way back from vacation. When I met them at a McDonalds in Hampton it was neat 100 degrees and my a/c in the van was not working well. I was also pulling a car trailer and it was blocking the parking lot. I grabbed the torts and paid and took off. When I arrived home and inspected the torts they were females however, not Brazilians but Bolivians. I have a breeding group of Bolivians. I wanted Brazilians. When I notified them of the error they became insulting and abusive in their Email. Would not provide the Brazilians I asked for. I have all emails back and forth and can prove that these are Bolivians but they insist they are a very hard to find Nortern variety of Brazilians. They have a solid black plastron. They are definitely crooked as heck. Frank Dombrowski
 
Can you please post the ad and the emails proving the incorrect animal was sold to you. In general I suggest that if you are given an opportunity to inspect an animal 'in person' you should take the time to carefully do so as looking at the animals and then paying for them and taking them could be deemed acceptance of them by the seller unless your issue cannot be visually discerned..
Also unless the name of their company is Sunset Hypo, their name should be in the title.
 
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