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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.

Info Fauna user CGKeith, AKA Keith LaVoo, Casa Grande, AZ

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He's advertising Eastern Box babies. His newest ad placed here 3-14-2015:

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=522782

I have PM's from him with the same photos from his current ad, as well as screen shots of all old 2012 ads with the same pics, should he try to delete those old ads.

9-13-2012 - same ad, same pics
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346698

9-27-2012 - same ad, same pics
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=350762

11-29-2012 - yada yada
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=366425

12-30-2012 - and ditto
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=372463
 
Why do you care? And most certainly why bring this to the boi? Some of you guys have way to much time on your hands. Are you trying to imply he is a scammer or even a bad guy? Who died and left you the turtle police? He never stated the pic was an available baby. Some people are busy and don't want to spend the time on taking pics of every animal. If it's his picture what is the harm in using a stock photo to give you an idea of what his animals look like. Businesses do it all the time. Please stop trying to be the turtle police and find something worthwhile to do with your spare time. Please stop spamming the BOI with this garbage and only use it for what it's intended for. ....legitimate business experiences.
Will
 
For my own clarity of understanding-

Were photos of the currently available animals requested?

Were photos provided in response to the above specific request?

Were the photos provided in response to the above specific request the same photos used in ads years ago?

Thanks in advance.
 
nickolasanastasiou said:
For my own clarity of understanding-

Were photos of the currently available animals requested?

Were photos provided in response to the above specific request?

Were the photos provided in response to the above specific request the same photos used in ads years ago?

Thanks in advance.
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Yes, I did ask for current photos. I did ask for photos of parents and he did PM the photos of parents. I did also ask how old the photo of the baby in his ad was. I got no response to that question, nor current pics.

He also did say, "I have 7 from this past years hatching that are now about 7 months old and I have 2 that are a year older from the prior years hatching."

Nothing nefarious about that, but why use 2+ years old photos?

And no, Will, I am not implying he is a scammer or bad guy (hence, the "info" tag). I just found it odd my questions went unanswered and he used the same 2+ year-old photos. I'm more than aware businesses use "stock" photos to represent animals. Uh, I already know what baby turtles look like; I don't need "respresentative" photos.
Who died and left you the turtle police?
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LOL ... no one. Might be cool, though, to have inherited the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, re: turtle police.
Please stop trying to be the turtle police and find something worthwhile to do with your spare time
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Thank you for the life lesson, sensei. I shall take your wise words under advisement.
 
East Coast box turtles

Just did business with Keith La Voo it was very professional, turtles were packaged great the baby boxies were in great shape just beautiful.Will do business with Keith again. He is a Good Guy and cares about his animals.:thumbsup:
 
LauraB said:
LOL ... no one. Might be cool, though, to have inherited the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, re: turtle police.
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ooooh! I want to join you in taking care of the TMNT!

And I for one don't like the idea of someone using and reusing photos from previous ads...It makes no sense. If you have the animals then you should be able to take updated photos.

Glad to hear that some have had good experiences with this seller, but I wouldn't deal with him because he reuses pictures. But that's me...
 
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