• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.

Now they are doing it with dogs!!!!!

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Damn scammers.
Now they are pulling the scam with dogs.
The only thing I can think of for how this idiot got my email is from me replying to some rescues since we are looking to adopt another dog.

Here is the email I got yesterday.
From: collin oakley <[email protected]>
Subject: dark tan Female yorkie for adoption
To:
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 5:51 PM

hello,
My names is collin oakley. I Have a beautiful Yorkshire Terrier who is in need of a good home. If you are interested i can send you some pictures of the Yorkshire Terrier as well as any papers i have regarding her shots etc if Can Adopt her let me know .Hope to hear from you soon!
collin oakley
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Here is my reponse.
How did you get my email regarding this?I would be interested but this is a bit of a surprise to come "out of the blue".
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His reply. Notice he ignores my question and just put in an attachment as the reply. My guess is he never read my reply just cut and pasted this BS solicitation. Now he is also Rev. Collin Oakley.
5 LBS
AKC FEMALE YORKIE PUP REGISTER.
CHAMPION BLOODLINES STUD: Yes
YORKIE DOODLES PISTOL PETE 3 1/2 LBS 7
ALL SHOT COMPLETED :yes
SHE IS 15 WEEKS OLD SHE WILL GO HOME WITH ALL HER CURRENT VACC. AND WORMING SHE CAN BE SHIPPED AT EXPENSE FOR APPROX. $28-----Inline Attachment Follows-----

Hello
Thanks for your interest in my pet. The York Shire Terrier (puppy) is still very much available adoption. Katti is a tiny registered Yorkshire terrier puppy.She is as beautiful as you can get,she has a cute little teddy bear face and a soft non shedding hair coat.If you are looking for a little buddy to take with you everywhere you go,then here she is.She has a wonderful personality and loves to cuddle AKC registered ADORABLE and SOCIABLE with GREAT Personalities and very good bloodlines.She is also very healthy and current on her puppy vaccinations. a nice crate and health certificate. more so ever i want you to know that i am in Western African now on my Christian mission along with my Wife and the puppy .after a while i notice that the Western African weather is not good for the puppy and i have not been able to take good care of her the way i always do because of my job.i need someone to adopt her and take care of her in the right way as i have always done for her.

AKC FEMALE YORKIE PUP1/2 LBS.)
CHAMPIONS SHE WILL WEIGH APPROX. 3 1/2 TO 0 back to usa
if you can afford that. please kindly Get Back To Me With The Informations Below If You Are Interested her so that arrangement can be made when i am not in church for the delivery to the information that you will provide for me :

Full Name:
Contact Address:
Nearest Airport:
Contact Phone Number:
nearest airport or would you prefer the baby to deliver to your door-step?
name on the Tag:katti
Let me know if you would like some puppy grooming and feeding guide magazines so that I can include them in the shipping. await to read from you if interested in the yorkie May God Be With You
Rev Collin Oakley
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I HATE these scumbags. Do these people really think I am going to give out this information or much less deal with someone out of the blue from Africa?
Get real. Find someone else to scam.
 
I was advertising an RC airplane I have (still have......) on craigslist and I got an email from someone interested in my 'item' and wanted to know if the 'item' was still available.

Naively, I responded YES.

They were very happy that my 'item' was still available and wanted to make some really wonkey payment arraingements.

Good thing I live in Nigeria. I think it's the guy down the street.
 
Yorkies are hot dogs right now and yorkie scams are everywhere. Even the dog classifieds of newspapers will have ads for free yorkies as long as one pays shipping (from another country of course).

What is sad to me is that because there are so many of these ads, you know that some of them must be working.

I can just see some little old lady yearning for a $1,000 yorkie and sending $200 of her savings to a scammer, expecting a puppy shipped to her. And many of the ads have heartbreakingly cute pictures and descriptions of puppies. Right now, yorkies, Maltese, and English bulldogs seem to be topping the scammer's lists.
 
This isnt new Steve. Back in 05 when I was stationed in Hawaii, my neighbor fell victim to a scammer on her American bulldog she had posted online. It was the typical Nigerian scam. He sent her a fake money order for $3000 as she was asking $1000 for her dog. She was naive and tried to cash it and was arrested for it. Her husband told me what happened and I explained to him about Nigerian scammers but unfortunately his wife took the fall because she is the one who tried to cash the fake money order.....
 
I get these all the time about my cats.

Some are really convincing and I've replied to the initial email but the second email from them is usually a standard Nigerian scammer response.
 
Yorkie puppy

Hello I ve been trying to find a yorkie puppy and everyone I came across was a scam can any body tell me where I can get one for cheap please help im also looking for sugar gliderss.
 
ONE18 said:
Hello I ve been trying to find a yorkie puppy and everyone I came across was a scam can any body tell me where I can get one for cheap please help im also looking for sugar gliderss.
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Yikes...
 

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