• 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.

Bad Guy CAW-Carolyn Wasowicz

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I have been a member of this forum and classified space since 2009 but have never made a purchase yet but I do want others to be aware this seller was permanently banned from MorphMarket for another unrelated incident come to find out and they sent another dispute notice to this individual to which they have not responded to. Back in December of ‘24 I messaged through the MM private messenger asking if I could put a deposit down for an Emerald Tree Boa because it was too late and cold in the season as I am in Montana and our winters are long and rather than risk the animals life with “guaranteed overnight” I felt more comfortable just securing the animal until it was closer to permissible shipping conditions. They said that was ok but if I was using Paypal which I only use for any transaction that I needed to send as friends and family, which leads me to believe this was all premeditated and normally I have been conditioned to reject this request and move especially if I pay the additional 2.99% fees associated with goods and services and they still insist on the latter. Well with any seller I look at their performance and read any of their derogatory testimonials and feedback to these negative claims and after I had reviewed her seller profile on the platform she didn’t have any and was sitting at a perfect rating. So I figured she is “trustworthy.”

The animal was priced at $800.00 and they said they would accept a $200.00 deposit and we both agreed I paid it that night. My insecurity began to increase when she wouldn’t send pics or kept saying she sent them but her phone wasn’t working so then she sent them from a “work phone” for which every time I texted I looped both in from that point on to prevent any claims of “well you didn’t text me or I never received anything.” Then a couple months later at the end of February I pay the remaining $600.00 as goods and services because I now see she has some concerning feedback and I did confront her about it through text. I first threatened to open a dispute because I wanted pics/video update on the animal especially after seeing these critical reviews.

Anyway fast forward to the end of April we get our last snow fall which isn’t abnormal for this region of the country and they said to let them know when to ship. Initially they said Monday, May 5th…never heard from them…keep in mind I was the one that kept reaching out after I let them know it was time. Then on Wednesday May 7th I asked if they were shipping that week, they said Thursday May 8th looked the best. Nothing all day, sent another text at the end of day MST would be about 8:30 their time and they said “I’m sorry! I thought I responded. Work has been busy.” That there were storms in Memphis so I was like okay I was reassured that she was watching for bad weather and the only thing that bothered me is the complete lack of communication.

Then on Sunday May 11th my sim card for my cell phone died/burnt out and couldn’t get cellular service all that next week so on Monday May 12th I identified who I was and explained I was using a loner device they said that was supposed to be the day, then later I inquired again and their response “Ok. Tomorrow. There's a severe thunderstorm alert in Florida and up east coast” which was the last corresponce I received from them. Sent a couple follows before I contacted Morph Market on Thursday May 15th and I filed later that same day with PayPal after seeing their seller page could not be found. Then that following day May 16th is when MM said they had been banned. They never responded to the PP dispute not that there’d be anything to justify any of this but just so everyone is aware they are not to be trusted even if they are a paying member/benefactor on this site.
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To clarify I took screenshots of everything at the time like her MM profile because I have been conditioned to and for good reason after her ban, her seller page, reviews, info, and listings are gone…and then my claim automatically becomes here say. I will NEVER send Friends and Family again. I have absolutely no trust for anyone in this industry or business anymore. There are good sellers but the last two times I have dealt with anyone on that platform which has rules and is run by a team of people have been complete con artists and one of them is still selling on there to this day. So I don’t know what this “Carolyn” did but it must’ve been pretty bad since the other one I provided all the evidence for and that PayPal resolution came out the same way and they are still allowed to sell on MM. I am also disappointed with management the way they casually dismissed this situation and I rarely buy animals online as it is and this only makes it that much more of a deterrent when there’s no consequence for unethical and deceitful business practices becoming rampant.
 
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