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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.

A Busy Surprise Birthday Party

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Well my wife got me yesterday with a surprise 30 th Birthday Party. Alot of relatives that attended haven't seen our breeding room before now and so I had to show everyone what we have been up to these last 3 years. When my wifes grandparents arrived to help "set me up" for the big night, I had a egg pipping so I thought I would show them what one goes through during the hatching process. Well needless to say the little stinker didn't feel secure enough to come out the rest of the way so I let him be and we headed out (to what I thought was dinner with friends) leaving our 3 year old son with his grandparents. After arriving at the resturant we get this phone call saying the dog is "vomiting blood" and that we need to come back home to remedy the problem ( I believed this only because our dog does suffer from irritable bowl syndrome). After arriving back home and having 20 people remind me that I am not in my 20's anymore :bawling: I proceded to head to the basement where I started showing people our collection. By this time our little hatchling was out of her egg and we got the " oh she is so tiny", "aww cute" ,and " can I hold her" ( mind you this is from the few relatives that I had to coax down there to begin with).
Now to the busy part. As I procede to show people our breeders, I open our giant breeding group tub just in time to witness a female having just laid her eggs and in the process of burying them ( now we have pushing and shoving to get the best view :uzi: again from the same people who can't stand the sight of anything reptile). Well I procede to place the eggs into our incubator and as I open the door I see another egg has just pipped and since our incubator has a glass front, everyone crowds to get a glimpse of it hatching. While this is going on I decide I might as well check all of our breeders as I was expecting more eggs soon anyhow. Well after an hour of "show & tell" we had six more eggs cooking and a total of 3 more hatchlings in the rack ( one decided to "surprise" me that morning). By this time my wife had to remind me that we still had cake to eat and that I needed to spend some time with my "other family" LOL..
All in all I couldn't have asked for a better timed B-day party. I got to witness more in one night than I had seen in the last 3 years and I got to share the experience with family and friends that left that night with a whole new look at our "cold-blooded family".
 
Congrads! I know you have nice giants, mine has gained 11 grams already! From 54 to 65 in about a months time. So Happy Birthday! :party:
 
Happy 30th Birthday Shawn! Welcome to the club!! LOL Very nice surprises you got for your birthday. I was lucky too, and got three clutches on my birthday, last week.
 
Happy 30th :). Geckos like to hatch/lay eggs on important days. For instance this and last year I got eggs on valentines day. I think they have some sort of psychic bond with us :)
 
Wow, that's a VERY HAPPY birthday!
Although its late, but "Happy 30th birthday!" (I've been through this last year, welcome to the club :) )
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
The female albino I got from you is doing great. Jasmine (her name)
out eats the rest of my leos and is turning into the little fatty. Oh and thanks for helping me out with my dumb temp problem. ;)
 
I'm glad she is doing well Melissa, hope your move went smoothly also :)


Hey I was also curious. When will your site be completely up and running?
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We had changed web designers at the first of the year. I am having my father-in-law design it now. He plays around alot with digital graphics (very much into computers) and so he wanted to give my site a try. It will hopefully be up and running in the next month or 2 at the most. I have pushed it to the wayside since the begining of the year and I am now getting photos and info. together for him and we will be meeting in the next few weeks to get the ball rolling. So hopefully soon....
 
Sounds nice, Happy Birthday! Ugh... thirty, Ill be there later this year :rofl:
 
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