• 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.

Info www.flherps.com / [email protected] picture thief

Deborah Stewart

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Their site http://www.flherps.com

Their email [email protected]

Possible user name: flherps307

Youtube channel linked to their website and I doubt the 307 is just a coincidence.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SnakeMaster307

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Few of the stolen pictures.

Highway

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http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/150667P1230017-med.JPG


Pictures of the Lithium


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Original found here

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?129199-Lithium&p=1427342&viewfull=1#post1427342

Pastel Butter

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Original posted here

http://www.breedingcircle.com/photos/available/reptiles/patelbutterhetghogtf275.JPG

Those are a few among others and only in the BP available list I would assume the rest in other categories are stolen as well.
 
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I do not know FLHerps, nor have I heard of them. I do know Jonathan an Breeding Circle well. He is a good guy! I noticed that they are both from Miami, FL. Maybe Jonathan sold him animals or is allowing him to post his animals??? Might want to check with Jonathan first to get the scoop before stating they are stolen photos. :thumbsup:
 
Get Sum said:
I do not know FLHerps, nor have I heard of them. I do know Jonathan an Breeding Circle well. He is a good guy! I noticed that they are both from Miami, FL. Maybe Jonathan sold him animals or is allowing him to post his animals??? Might want to check with Jonathan first to get the scoop before stating they are stolen photos. :thumbsup:
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I have contacted Johnathan already and the thread still stands, this web owner IS stealing pictures and uses them to sell animals he does not own, he has stolen several pictures hosted on another forum as well, pictures that were used in one of his ads before he was banned from BP.net
 
Get Sum said:
before stating they are stolen photos. :thumbsup:
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Just to clarify I never make accusations lightly I banned him from BP.net after investigating his account following some suspicious ads, I traced back the most of the original pictures did a little more research and decided to post here.

And of course this should clear any doubt

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So he's ... Admitting that he stole the pictures from Google Image search, and suggesting that you take it up with Google? (And then making an oblique, veiled, "I'm gonna get out my lawyer" threat" to back it up?)

... Fascinating.
 
Deborah Stewart said:
Just to clarify I never make accusations lightly I banned him from BP.net after investigating his account following some suspicious ads, I traced back the most of the original pictures did a little more research and decided to post here.

And of course this should clear any doubt

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Looks like you did your homework..and then some! Good job Deborah on finding another rotton apple and pointing it out to others. If less people got burned from theifs, It would make it alot easier to sell the animals we produce! Kudos
 
Its funny how they say their not liable for taking pictures from Google Image.

Them pictures arent there for people to take and use as their own. If needing to reference the picture you are to link to the picture and or give the person credit for it if allowed to use the picture.


Google indexes billions of sites a day, they can not stop sites from being indexed into the database for images. Thats on US who build websites to write scripts to exclude images from being indexed.

The guy is a real winner to think its okay to take a copyright image regardless if its found from yahoo,bing,google or on this site and use it. And say its no my fault i found it, its the sites fault that has it
 
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