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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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  • New tracking # UPS 1Z 14W 562 01 9365 5385

    Again, delayed due to Hurricane Earl in VA and other Eastern states declaring state of emergency - could not ship! Everything looks clear on my and your end for Tuesday Sept 7 - due to labor day Monday Sept 6.
    Once again you have failed to deliver on what you said you would. I have an e-mail saying you would wire me a refund which i have yet to reieve. And an e-mail saying you would ship the snakes by wednesday (september 1) and it is 2 pm my time thursday, overnight deliveries do not come past 12 pm here. So i know you have not sent them along with any of the shipping info. So i will keep calling your phone until you pick up. Once i am able to take legal action be sure that i will request that your former boss from guitar center to help me out. When i called your cell number and someone answerd the phone saying that they were the manager of giutar center I looked up the real guitar centers number in your area. I find it too much of a coincedence that when i spoke to the real manager the name was the same and when i asked if he knew of a pedro perez he sqaid yes and hat they fired you a long time ago. I told him the number i called to get in contact with you and he verified with me that that was your cell number.So i didnt make a mistake in who i was calling because you picked up and pretended to be GC several times. Then he told me that he spoke to you about the situation and you said you would contact me AND HAVE YET TO DO SO.
    I just have, Justin. I know you're frustrated with the way these events gave unraveled, and at the same time your family issues that are beyond my control.
    If what you say is true show me and all the people here the timeline of all these events because you have things seriously mixed up
    The snakes were fed and could not be shipped!!! I told you this!!! Week 1: UPS held shipments due to wildfires in the area. I assumed FEDEX was the same, and it was more costly. I am not a seller making enormous amount of money to be able to afford a loss of $50 more or less on FEDEX.

    Week 2: You asked for a refund, I said NO. You said you were moving because you were having gf/wife issues and may not have a place to live. I felt bad because I myself was in a similar situation, and you told me my problems were not yours to care for and you demanded your money back. I told you all sales final as per my terms on my website. I did not have an address to ship to since you told me you would not be at either of the two addresses you sent to me! But now you're saying to me you need the money for your family, and your gf texted me saying she was pregnant - and I thought you had split and looking for a place to go?! All this has nothing to do with me and makes no sense whatsoever. If you simply made an "impulse" buy on these snakes, that is not my problem!

    Week 3: Weather hiked to 100+ degrees - once again, as per my terms I will not ship over 90 degrees! Ask any breeder/seller about their terms on this, and it will be the same everywhere!

    And I never gave you any Guitar Center phone number. You must be calling the wrong people! I have no idea what you are talking about. Now I will ship out when the weather cools. That's it!

    Do what you want with your "legal counsel." I have explained to you everything I possibly can and cannot satisfy you completely. I apologize this did not go as smooth as it should have.
    Do what you want with your "legal counsel." I have explained to you everything I possibly can and cannot satisfy you completely. I apologize this did not go as smooth as it should have.
    Once again i also have proof of u saying u would refund me my money. "As per my terms, all sales are final unless otherwise agreed upon or animal arrives DOA". That means u must have made one big mistake in sending me this message"I know, there's been another delay AGAIN and will refund your money instead.This time, UPS has a weather delay at the main hub - can't ship anything until wildfires are controlled. I've had to reroute some shipments and others are taking a risk.

    I am having issues getting UPS to accept the shipping of snakes, and I lost your contact # so I was unable to call you last night. I am very sorry for this delay, it seems as though I'll need to wait 'til Monday to ship since it's very risky to ship out towards the end of the week. If they do not accept by Monday, I will ship Fedex instead." My problem is you didn't refund or give me a reason why you didt ship them threw fedex
    and the fact that you gave me and another person that wanted to do buisness with you 2 different adresses of buisness
    So why is it that when I tried to contact you you said your phone was off. And when u picked up you pretended to be the manager of the guitar city in your area. I called the real guitar city and they said they fired you (Pdero Perez) a while ago. If you are so legit why do that. I gave you the shipping adress you were the one that said it would be $90 instead of $50 so i had you ship it to the other address. I have proof of all these conversations. I do not need the snakes an entire month after i paid for them, I need my money I have a baby due this month and half of my rent is missing because of all this b.s. The snakes you were supposed to send were supposed to go towards a trade for my babies carraige. Your mistake was that you gave me your real name and the place you used to work at, so go ahead and make it seem like i messed up f u want. If anyone on this site wants to see the conversations we had they are free to ask i have no problem showing them. Regardless of me changing the address or not u have no excuse for spending my money on an apartment when i didn't even recieve the snakes. So once again i will warn people not to do buisness with you because you are not legit, if you were if you would have atleast contacted me. You even sent me a message from your phone when you said it was off. een thow it is a picture message it still has your number attached dumba**
    You gave me two address to ship to, but never verified where to ship until two weeks later when you "changed your mind" and requested your money back instead. As per my terms, all sales are final unless otherwise agreed upon or animal arrives DOA. You knew that UPS had delays in my area to ship, and one of the hubs was re-scheduling shipments due to wildfires in California. You were ok with that one-week delay. Then, when the UPS hold was removed, you changed your mind! You have my cell phone, but I cannot answer while at work and you leave me blank messages with background noise only. The snakes will be shipped no later than next Wednesday Sept 1, 2010 - weather permitting, our temps here are 100+ degrees and cannot ship - ask any other breeder/seller, they will not ship until weather permits. This is beyond my control. Thank you.
    This guy is an adsolute fraud gave me the number to a guitar store and pretended as if he was the manager when i called. Dont have anything to do with this guy and im pretty sure he has a couple of accounts on here.
    Inam still wondering how you could come online and visit this site but you can not respond to my e-mails after you said you would refund me my money and that i needed it by friday this will have been the second day you have gone without contacting me. I told I will take legal action
    No when you lost contact with me the first time you said you would just refund my money instead. Then when you finally got in contact with me you said that you would ship them and i agreed to accept. Then I called you the next day and told you that i would need the refund instead. I still have the message you left on my voice mail saying that you would be able to refund my money and you wouldn't be able to do it until Monday and you would call me hours after i spoke to you. I have all the messages saved of us putting together this deal and me giving you my address on numerous occasions, and asking for your number several times and not receiving it. you even called and asked me where i wanted it shipped and that you would cover the extra cost for the weight limits. So i don't know what you think is going on because this text that you just sent me today saying "I know you are upset. But, I thought you received my email last week stating I could not refund your money. I did not want to explain to you why I could not, because I didn't think it would be relevant. I will be going threw divorce soon and by selling you these snakes. I used the payment for a deposit on a small studio apt. The snakes continue to be fed weekly, but I need to know that you will be o.k receiving them". I have not received an e-mail from you and you should not have made the poor business decision to spend the money i sent you before I even received your shipment. Your personal life has nothing to do with our business, you should not have told me 2 times that you could refund my money (which i have proof of) if you could not
    Justin (Wexotics),
    I e-mailed you last week, the boas are ready to go. I cannot refund your money two weeks later, I need a shipping address like I asked you before and can only ship Mon, Tue and Wed.

    I apologize but I am not completely at fault here, I cannot send my snakes to an address that may or may not be ok to ship. As much as I wanna help with your family emergency in refunding your money, I am unable to as the money has already been used in other priorities of my life at this time. Thank you.
    I have yet to recieve a call from you for the money i was supposed to be refunded for the dumeril boas. It has been almost 2 weeks since you said you would contact me. I have called you and left messages and have got no return call. This is very unprofessional, I understand that you might be having some communication issues but this is rediculous. please contact me ASAP.
    Thanks, I may take u up on that, my first hatchlings are only 2 days out w/ about 60 more to come in the next 2 wks--lots of variety. davy.
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