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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.

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emeryfbrecovery said:
I don’t know how to go about taking responsibility in this. I admit I should’ve got to a vet sooner but with my work schedule it’s difficult. A lot of the old timers that are retired on here don’t get it but of course they don’t- they don’t have to work [emoji849][emoji849][emoji849]


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Trust me, I guarantee I'm working more hours a week then you are and I'm nowhere near retired. That doesn't negate the fact that you put it off. Even in admitting fault on waiting too long, you're still casting blame elsewhere. You keep crying about professionalism despite how you yourself have acted.
 
emeryfbrecovery said:
I don’t know how to go about taking responsibility in this. I admit I should’ve got to a vet sooner but with my work schedule it’s difficult. A lot of the old timers that are retired on here don’t get it but of course they don’t- they don’t have to work
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Who doesn't have to work? I'm pretty sure that most of the members here work. Dude, grow up. When you take on a responsibility regardless if a lizard, a dog, or a child, you figure out how to do it. This BS of no time or no money is a crap excuse. You are either responsible and figure out how to manage those responsibilities like an adult, or you are a child. Time to start prioritizing.
 
Of course it did. I didn’t expect it, but yesterday we sold out all our frilled dragons and got so many orders for other animals. A drastic increase in sales and as you can see people following our business on social media.
Not trying to be cocky about this, because I hated to go this path with you to protect the reputation of my business, I don’t like to see that on my page, negative energy, and I would never choose this path to advertise my business, (and did not expect it to be honest) but just so you know how it is.

I guess all this attracts plenty of people to our social media, who will be attracted by the quality of animals that we offer, and when reading your comments, they will understand very well what happened here and that we do care a lot about our animals and reputation.






You think you increased your business with this? Oh brother [emoji2359][emoji2359][emoji2359][emoji23] keeping thinking that.


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Of course it did. I didn’t expect it, but yesterday we sold out all our frilled dragons and got so many orders for other animals. A drastic increase in sales and as you can see people following our business on social media.
Not trying to be cocky about this, because I hated to go this path with you to protect the reputation of my business, I don’t like to see that on my page, negative energy, and I would never choose this path to advertise my business, (and did not expect it to be honest) but just so you know how it is.

I guess all this attracts plenty of people to our social media, who will be attracted by the quality of animals that we offer, and when reading your comments, they will understand very well what happened here and that we do care a lot about our animals and reputation.




You think you increased your business with this? Oh brother [emoji2359][emoji2359][emoji2359][emoji23] keeping thinking that.


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Docglock said:
Who doesn't have to work? I'm pretty sure that most of the members here work. Dude, grow up. When you take on a responsibility regardless if a lizard, a dog, or a child, you figure out how to do it. This BS of no time or no money is a crap excuse. You are either responsible and figure out how to manage those responsibilities like an adult, or you are a child. Time to start prioritizing.
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Half the members here says retired in their bios.....


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Lucille said:
When we weren't retired, we did take our critters in. It is just another excuse for your poor behavior to point to the retired people here as an excuse for not getting your critter to the vet.



What you need to do to take responsibility is to apologize to your seller, I feel this was just a gimme thread to get $ from him, but there is no proof the critter was ill when received. You've given him a lot of undeserved aggravation.



You need to apologize to others for your trashy personal attacks. You need to either sell your collection, or find a friend who will help you with care/vet visits when you do not have the time.



You need to resist the urge to be defensive, you have shown some not very professional behavior and you need to do better after making amends.
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I did get my critter into the vet...
Lucille you’re a waste of time. I’ve seen so from all your other posts. Maybe you did take your critters in when you were working, but you also weren’t dealing with what I’ve had to deal with. were any of you home owners at 19 years old? In San Diego California, where living expenses are high? Didn’t think so.
So don’t compare your situation to mine because it’s nothing alike.

Reptiles do not take up hours and hours of time and any body who keeps lots of exotics knows this.


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Milesd_87 said:
Trust me, I guarantee I'm working more hours a week then you are and I'm nowhere near retired. That doesn't negate the fact that you put it off. Even in admitting fault on waiting too long, you're still casting blame elsewhere. You keep crying about professionalism despite how you yourself have acted.
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I’m not the business owner. What reason do I have to portray myself as professional? I could care less if a vendor I’ve never heard of sides with MOC and doesn’t want to sell to me. You assume you work more than me but I doubt you work over 80 hours a week. Highly doubt it. I also doubt you were working that many hours at 19, while dealing with all the shit I’m dealing with. I don’t even need to go into depth with all of it because no matter what situation I state you’re going to still argue. But either way, don’t compare yourself to me.


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If he believes my husbandry was so bad, tell me this. Why would he attempt to sell me another frilled dragon? Does he just not care what happens to the animals he sells? Or does he feel partly responsible.


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emeryfbrecovery said:
Half the members here says retired in their bios.....
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Simply because they are retired now does not mean they do not understand time crunches. It is you who does not appear to understand priorities, and you seem to be looking everywhere for excuses for your behavior.

You asked how to take responsibility, I took quite a bit of time to write how I thought you should do that. Instead of looking for more excuses, why don't you put some of my ideas into action- apologize to those you have wronged and find friends to help you care for your critters, or sell them until you have time in your life to do right by them.
 
Emery,

You’re not going to find anyone in this hobby who will pay a vet bill, replace, or issue a refund after 3+ weeks. I kept Aussie frillies years ago and they can go downhill quickly, especially hatchlings, if kept improperly. Also, yours isn’t the only hatching that this vendor sold. Yellow fungus is very contagious. If your animal was sick before it was sent to you don’t you think some of his clutch mates would be suffering from the same ailments?

This is on you. Bashing this vendor and trying to negatively impact his business is just plain wrong.
 
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Ha whatever people. That’s all I need to show how he really feels about the animals. Y’all are probably just flippers or mass producers who don’t care about the health of the animal just like him [emoji42][emoji42]
Done talking to a bunch of people with brown noses.


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3240 said:
Emery,



You’re not going to find anyone in this hobby who will pay a vet bill, replace, or issue a refund after 3+ weeks. I kept Aussie frillies years ago and they can go downhill quickly, especially hatchlings, if kept improperly. Also, yours isn’t the only hatching that this vendor sold. Yellow fungus is very contagious. If your animal was sick before it was sent to you don’t you think some of his clutch mates would be suffering from the same ailments?



This is on you. Bashing this vendor and trying to negatively impact his business is just plain wrong.
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Why do none of my other animals have yellow fungus then? And he’s in a quarantine room that’s never had reptiles in it, by himself with completely new furnishings? So how would he of contracted yellow fungus? All my other frillies are thriving.


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emeryfbrecovery said:
Why do none of my other animals have yellow fungus then? And he’s in a quarantine room that’s never had reptiles in it, by himself with completely new furnishings? So how would he of contracted yellow fungus? All my other frillies are thriving.


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I don’t know Emery. Why don’t any of the other frillies from this clutch have yellow fungus? Seems like yours is the only one?

I’ve been in this hobby for 30 years and I can’t tell you how many times a post starts with “my husbandry is perfect but my animal is really sick”. Attacking this vendor after so much time has passed is not fair.
 
Lucille said:
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What you need to do to take responsibility is to apologize to your seller. You've given him a lot of undeserved aggravation.

You need to apologize to others for your trashy personal attacks. You need to either sell your collection, or find a friend who will help you with care/vet visits when you do not have the time.

You need to resist the urge to be defensive, you have shown some not very professional behavior and you need to do better after making amends.
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Good advice, Emery. I received a very sick snake, years ago, so at first, I could understand your frustration.

However, after reading this entire thread, I don't see what the seller could have done differently. You waited way too long to get the animal to a vet, then proceeded to blame the seller for the condition you allowed the animal to get in.

Because you couldn't convince him to give you money, you decided to go after his business. If that isn't childish, I don't know what is. Your :censored: excuses don't fly here either. Everyone works and has responsibilities, but we all manage to get stuff done.

You have an opportunity to redeem yourself. Apologize to the seller, and those who you have insulted because you didn't get your way, and try to get that lizard back to good health.

I would buy from MOC Reptiles; you, I would avoid like the plague.
 
emeryfbrecovery said:
I’m not the business owner. What reason do I have to portray myself as professional?

I could care less if a vendor I’ve never heard of sides with MOC and doesn’t want to sell to me. You assume you work more than me but I doubt you work over 80 hours a week. Highly doubt it. I also doubt you were working that many hours at 19, while dealing with all the shit I’m dealing with. I don’t even need to go into depth with all of it because no matter what situation I state you’re going to still argue. But either way, don’t compare yourself to me.


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Most business deals work best if both parties are professional. Acting like a clown will most likely get you treated as such.

I clock well over 80hrs a week at just my day job. Like I said, the "I work a lot" excuses mean nothing to me. I won't argue, I just don't care about your personal stuff and I don't care that your 19. Everyone deals with their own personal stuff. You want special treatment because of yours? Please don't go into "depth" in your reply either. It's not going to change my mind on this. I'll compare whatever I want, thanks.

I don't know who your "flipper" comment was directed towards, but once again...:shootfoot
 
Milesd_87 said:
Most business deals work best if both parties are professional. Acting like a clown will most likely get you treated as such.



I clock well over 80hrs a week at just my day job. Like I said, the "I work a lot" excuses mean nothing to me. I won't argue, I just don't care about your personal stuff and I don't care that your 19. Everyone deals with their own personal stuff. You want special treatment because of yours? Please don't go into "depth" in your reply either. It's not going to change my mind on this. I'll compare whatever I want, thanks.



I don't know who your "flipper" comment was directed towards, but once again...:shootfoot
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Of course you’re not going to change your mind. I could show you screenshots of MOC admitting he sent me a frilled dragon, and it he denied it and said I fabricated the messages, you’d probably STILL pick his side. You sir, are what we call a [emoji533] rider.


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Insomniac101 said:
Good advice, Emery. I received a very sick snake, years ago, so at first, I could understand your frustration.



However, after reading this entire thread, I don't see what the seller could have done differently. You waited way too long to get the animal to a vet, then proceeded to blame the seller for the condition you allowed the animal to get in.



Because you couldn't convince him to give you money, you decided to go after his business. If that isn't childish, I don't know what is. Your :censored: excuses don't fly here either. Everyone works and has responsibilities, but we all manage to get stuff done.



You have an opportunity to redeem yourself. Apologize to the seller, and those who you have insulted because you didn't get your way, and try to get that lizard back to good health.



I would buy from MOC Reptiles; you, I would avoid like the plague.
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Then avoid me? You’re not anybody I’ve ever heard of and I could care less if you ever bought from me or from MOC? Childish? Yeah I’m going to apologize to MOC after he tried to get at my personal life and made false accusations like that I’m on steroids and that I’m getting my brothers to write a bad review lmao.

At this point, I really don’t care if you believe me or him. I know that I waited too long to go to the vet, but I can’t just say see ya to my job and blow it off. Then I’d be saying how I lost my job because of him and then everyone would say that’s my fault as well.... The animal shouldn’t of arrived sick in the first place.

My main point is if he was so convinced that it was my fault this frilled dragon got sick then why the FUDGE Would he try to sell me another one???????????




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