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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.
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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 Ty park/ ty lizards FL

To highlight what others have said, I believe additional communication between the two of you is extremely important for the community to make a decision on his character. Although, I am certain everyone is extremely grateful for you coming forward with this information.

My apologies my computer was open since yesterday and I did not refresh. :face_palm_02::face_palm_02::face_palm_02:
 
All I know about Ty Park is he's a man of his word and has a great reputation as a breeder and a conservationist. I hope we're able to get both sides of the story but with pending court date I don't think we will until that is done. I'm interested to see what comes of this but i'm curious why didn't you give him your address and receive the replacement Tegu that was offered. This whole mess going on and on seems like it would have been worked with a little flexibility.
 
All I know about Ty Park is he's a man of his word and has a great reputation as a breeder and a conservationist.

And that absolutely may be true. So far, we have some accusations, without screen shots of the basic terms or message convos that the OP says she has available.
There may be more to the story than we are seeing, since the basic terms of the raffle are very important and were requested, and the OP has ignored the request for screen shots. It's beginning to feel like we are seeing only what the OP wants us to see.
 
Raffle terms

Photo 1 where ty engages his followers
Photo 2 raffle started. Only stated an albino tegu
Which later ty stated he only produced albino purples. The other 2 people received an albino purple t+
Photo 3 winners announced
 

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Please provide screen shots. You have provided writing in a note book. Please provide screen shots of the terms from the page where you found the raffle.
I have our whole conversations on messager, all of his posts he made about me where he called me greedy, uneducated, thankless etc and proof he shipped the other 2 winners an albino purple tegu. His public comments telling his followers that he offered me a purple albino which was a lie because when I asked him he said no saying he didn't feel I deserve one.

Screen shots of the above which you say you have, please
 
All I know about Ty Park is he's a man of his word and has a great reputation as a breeder and a conservationist. I hope we're able to get both sides of the story but with pending court date I don't think we will until that is done. I'm interested to see what comes of this but i'm curious why didn't you give him your address and receive the replacement Tegu that was offered. This whole mess going on and on seems like it would have been worked with a little flexibility.

As you can see in the copy of out fb pmd. He was unwilling to give me a tegu as promised to be delivered in July, to be produced by him, or the alternative prize that was $3,000

He refused to give me the "breeders name" whom he tried to get a tegu for me from and later in his Oct post on his fb page he admits he shouldn't even get any tegus from the "undisclosed breeder friend" but a tegu from a friend was not what the raffle was for
 

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Please provide screen shots. You have provided writing in a note book. Please provide screen shots of the terms from the page where you found the raffle.


Screen shots of the above which you say you have, please

I posited the conversation between us starting July 31 (the date the tegu was supposed to be delivered and the raffle terms
 

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Please provide screen shots. You have provided writing in a note book. Please provide screen shots of the terms from the page where you found the raffle.


Screen shots of the above which you say you have, please



The photos I provided are from my exhibit book from court
Because it is illegal in my state to have any raffles I may have to Perdue this in Fl courts
 
Here's my interpretation. Ty offered you an albino blue tegu but you saw a way to take advantage of the situation and wanted $3k instead. Ty donates a huge portion of his reptile income to conservation efforts. These raffles are held for a good cause and Ty funds them 100%. It's a shame to see someone take advantage of his efforts.
 
All I know about Ty Park is he's a man of his word and has a great reputation as a breeder and a conservationist. I hope we're able to get both sides of the story but with pending court date I don't think we will until that is done. I'm interested to see what comes of this but i'm curious why didn't you give him your address and receive the replacement Tegu that was offered. This whole mess going on and on seems like it would have been worked with a little flexibility.



In this situation ty was not a man of his word!
I also received many pms from his followers stating their disappointment in the way ty has handled this.
I did not deserve to be called the names he called me either.
 
In this situation ty was not a man of his word!
I also received many pms from his followers stating their disappointment in the way ty has handled this.
I did not deserve to be called the names he called me either.

It would be interesting to see ALL of the communication between you and Ty. You're only posting portions of the conversation.
 
Here's my interpretation. Ty offered you an albino blue tegu but you saw a way to take advantage of the situation and wanted $3k instead. Ty donates a huge portion of his reptile income to conservation efforts. These raffles are held for a good cause and Ty funds them 100%. It's a shame to see someone take advantage of his efforts.



This may be YOUR opinion and many of his 8,000 followers may feel the same. But please tell me how i am rating advantage of him. I never received an albino tegu that he produced. He tried to change the terms by offering me an albino. Lue from an undisclosed breeder. Which later was found out by Ty's comment in his own post that he could not even get.
He sold 60 tickets at $100 each within about an hour. by people that wanted one of TY PARKS animals. I have never seen him raffle off someone else's animal. And I am sorry if I want to know where my animals come from. I tried to resolve this with ty and he refused to give the alternate prize that he had offered in the raffle terms which happened to be $3000 and he also refused to give me an albino t+ that he produced. The other 2 people received a t+ albino!!
I think that anyone in my shoes would have expected to receive the alternative prize (the cash as he promised in the raffle terms) OR what the others received as ty has made it very clear that he did. It produce any albino blue t- tegus and admitted he only produced t+ albino purples.
 
Here's my interpretation. Ty offered you an albino blue tegu but you saw a way to take advantage of the situation and wanted $3k instead. Ty donates a huge portion of his reptile income to conservation efforts. These raffles are held for a good cause and Ty funds them 100%. It's a shame to see someone take advantage of his efforts.


He never offered me an albino tegu that he produced.
 
I can only figure out how to post a few ss at a time but I am posting the conversation now
 

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This may be YOUR opinion and many of his 8,000 followers may feel the same. But please tell me how i am rating advantage of him. I never received an albino tegu that he produced. He tried to change the terms by offering me an albino. Lue from an undisclosed breeder. Which later was found out by Ty's comment in his own post that he could not even get.
He sold 60 tickets at $100 each within about an hour. by people that wanted one of TY PARKS animals. I have never seen him raffle off someone else's animal. And I am sorry if I want to know where my animals come from. I tried to resolve this with ty and he refused to give the alternate prize that he had offered in the raffle terms which happened to be $3000 and he also refused to give me an albino t+ that he produced. The other 2 people received a t+ albino!!
I think that anyone in my shoes would have expected to receive the alternative prize (the cash as he promised in the raffle terms) OR what the others received as ty has made it very clear that he did. It produce any albino blue t- tegus and admitted he only produced t+ albino purples.

So there were two other people in the same boat as you but they were able to work something out with Ty? Unless I missed something, looks to me like he offered you a replacement animal and you refused to give him your address.
 
In the texts you posted he's offering to give you an albino blue tegu. You're refusing because you want $3k. As I said earlier, you're taking advantage of the situation.
 
Here's my interpretation. Ty offered you an albino blue tegu but you saw a way to take advantage of the situation and wanted $3k instead. Ty donates a huge portion of his reptile income to conservation efforts. These raffles are held for a good cause and Ty funds them 100%. It's a shame to see someone take advantage of his efforts.

Here is mine.

He offered an albino blue tegu to each of the winners of a raffle and $3k to each winner if he did not produce any. He claimed at one point not to have produced any and would procure one from someone else's stock. The trouble is that the people were not buying tickets for someone else's stock. They were buying tickets for chances to win his stock. He did not, according to some of the messages, produce said stock.

The wording was specific. As it is stated, it looks like she is owed $3k. It was either one of his albino tegus he produced or $3k. No tegus produced? $3k. He did not have a third option in the posting of the contest promising that said he would roll on down to a fellow vendor's place in order to procure a replacement from another's stock. If he had, sure, he would have had the option of offering that. That is not how it was outlined, however, and how it was outlined was by his own hands.

He did not say that if he could not procure them that he would then pay $3k. He said if that if he did not produce them that he would pay $3k. According to him in some messages, he did not produce some. In other messages, it looks like he claimed he did produce some and was keeping them. Both of those claims cannot be simultaneously true, but that is neither here nor there since neither version of the prize was given to one of the winners of the contest. She paid $400 in chances and fortune favored her in the winning outcome. What has been promised by the terms of the contest has failed to be delivered.

Whether he "feels" she was greedy or not, she complied with his terms that he designed and he is the one who appears to be reneging on the agreement he built.

The only person being taken advantage of is the person who won under the terms set and has not received the prize or its cash alternative as outlined by the person who created the raffle in the first place.

The purpose of the raffle and all of the rest are separate matters. He could be pulling puppies out of fires all day long, but it looks like he owes this person $3k unless there is something more and critically damning to her argument that is not being presented.

I have bought from Ty before and, while there was an error in the order, he fixed it quickly and I was pleased with the transaction and animals received. That said, this is a situation he made. His words from the first screen shot are attached. If he abides by those words, then he will be a man of his word. If he does not deliver the $3k, then he is not abiding by his own words.
 

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Here is mine.

He offered an albino blue tegu to each of the winners of a raffle and $3k to each winner if he did not produce any. He claimed at one point not to have produced any and would procure one from someone else's stock. The trouble is that the people were not buying tickets for someone else's stock. They were buying tickets for chances to win his stock. He did not, according to some of the messages, produce said stock.

The wording was specific. As it is stated, it looks like she is owed $3k. It was either one of his albino tegus he produced or $3k. No tegus produced? $3k. He did not have a third option in the posting of the contest promising that said he would roll on down to a fellow vendor's place in order to procure a replacement from another's stock. If he had, sure, he would have had the option of offering that. That is not how it was outlined, however, and how it was outlined was by his own hands.

He did not say that if he could not procure them that he would then pay $3k. He said if that if he did not produce them that he would pay $3k. According to him in some messages, he did not produce some. In other messages, it looks like he claimed he did produce some and was keeping them. Both of those claims cannot be simultaneously true, but that is neither here nor there since neither version of the prize was given to one of the winners of the contest. She paid $400 in chances and fortune favored her in the winning outcome. What has been promised by the terms of the contest has failed to be delivered.

Whether he "feels" she was greedy or not, she complied with his terms that he designed and he is the one who appears to be reneging on the agreement he built.

The only person being taken advantage of is the person who won under the terms set and has not received the prize or its cash alternative as outlined by the person who created the raffle in the first place.

The purpose of the raffle and all of the rest are separate matters. He could be pulling puppies out of fires all day long, but it looks like he owes this person $3k unless there is something more and critically damning to her argument that is not being presented.

I have bought from Ty before and, while there was an error in the order, he fixed it quickly and I was pleased with the transaction and animals received. That said, this is a situation he made. His words from the first screen shot are attached. If he abides by those words, then he will be a man of his word. If he does not deliver the $3k, then he is not abiding by his own words.

This right here. I'm glad to see someone say it. Nobody else seems to see it this way. Its clear that the terms were changed and not honored.
 
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