• 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.

Info Contributions 'n Stuff

meat = meet!! MY BAD!

Damn arm cast makes typing and apparently, thinking, a nightmare!!
 
Hamsta Rap


Hey lil girl
What in the world
Fauna needs ya needs ya
You got your bucks don't get your
Got to save it for the important stuff
Is it rough?
Come on girl, it's real, the joy
Don't just be a surface BOI toy
It's up to you
Donate a few
Come on girl, whatcha gonna do.
 
I have just mailed the poster to Shawn Lorrain,

and I just donated $18.50 (remainder after subtracting postage fee) to Fauna via the PayPal donation button at the top of the page.

That leaves one poster left! If you want a poster, and want to help here at the same time, let me know.
 
Geez I woulda bet that by now someone would have offered to donate so I wouldn't write any more rap.....:D
 
KathyLove said:
and I just donated $18.50 (remainder after subtracting postage fee) to Fauna via the PayPal donation button at the top of the page.

That leaves one poster left! If you want a poster, and want to help here at the same time, let me know.
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Thank you, Kathy.... :thumbsup:
 
I'd pay you to KEEP the hamsters. What horrible little critters......what do I owe and what will it cost me for you to keep those vermin? (HATE hamsters)....

please PM me how much and exactly where to send payment (I won't give Rich shit...more than usual is you want me to PM it directly to him....it's in writing now ) when y'all decide what the (REASONABLE! remember I've had a crappy year and have NOTHING worth selling or donating this year!) price I should donate to make Lucille keep those rotten, nasty, biting, ( undeniably cute but still horrible) vermin!!!
 
NOTE~ I'm in and out of here on a pretty irregular basis. Seriously.....PM me or email me so I get a notification that there is a response on what I have to pay to make her keep the vermin........or I may miss it and forget (it happens) until y'all think I'm a creep.......PM me or email me with a payment address please.
 
Switzer Reptiles Inc. said:
We will be at the NARBC Anaheim and offer the following as donations to Fauna:

1.1 WC Lygodactylus Capensis Pakenhami $24.00
1.1 WC Lygodactylus williamsi $69.00
1.0 WC Lygodactylus Kimhowelli $12.00
1.0 WC Phelsuma parkeri $200.00
0.0.1 WC Adolfu Jacksonii - Jackson Forest Lizard $12.00
0.0.1 Baby Bearded Dragon - Orange Lines $29.00
1.0 WC Ctenosaura palearis $125.00

Please send payment directly to Fauna. Buyer to pay separate shipping to Switzer Reptiles of $35.00 flat rate for FedEx overnight shipping or we can deliver to the NARBC Anaheim in September. Southern California FedEx shipping is $19.00.

Thank you,

Linda Switzer
www.SwitzerReptiles.com
626-963-5123
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Hi Everyone,
In order to get some activity, I am lowering the price of the items I have listed as follows. When each of the items has sold and payment is received, I will post that it has sold and send a donation directly. If paying with paypal, the paypal fees will be deducted from the listed price and sent to Fauna. FedEx shipping will be and extra $35.00 and paid to Switzer Reptiles. There is only one or one pair (as stated below) offered of each of the following:

1.1 WC Lygodactylus Capensis Pakenhami $16.00
1.1 WC Lygodactylus williamsi $50.00
1.0 WC Lygodactylus Kimhowelli $10.00
1.0 WC Phelsuma parkeri $125.00
0.0.1 WC Adolfu Jacksonii - Jackson Forest Lizard $10.00
0.0.1 Baby Bearded Dragon - Orange Lines $19.00
1.0 WC Ctenosaura palearis $99.00

Please call or email with any questions:)

Thank you,

Linda Switzer
www.SwitzerReptiles.com
626-963-5123
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
I'd pay you to KEEP the hamsters. What horrible little critters......what do I owe and what will it cost me for you to keep those vermin? (HATE hamsters)....

please PM me how much and exactly where to send payment (I won't give Rich shit...more than usual is you want me to PM it directly to him....it's in writing now ) when y'all decide what the (REASONABLE! remember I've had a crappy year and have NOTHING worth selling or donating this year!) price I should donate to make Lucille keep those rotten, nasty, biting, ( undeniably cute but still horrible) vermin!!!
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How about ten bucks? My paypal address is the same as my email.

Thank you Cheryl. These two little girls are adorable, they are almost round from eating all the special snacks (like pizza crusts) that I give them and theur cuteness quotient is way up there.
 
Here we have one of those bizarre, rare and wonderful events in life, such as rainbows, or the discovery that one can turn tequila into diamonds (no kidding, check it out).

But this is better.

Cheryl Marchek (thank you, Cheryl) has paid Fauna fifteen dollars so that I will NOT sell my adorable hamsters. This money has been sent to benefit Fauna, and the hamsters will live out their fat little lives eating hamster food, cheetos and pizza crusts and not biting Cheryl at all.

Thank you Cheryl!!!
 
lucille said:
Here we have one of those bizarre, rare and wonderful events in life, such as rainbows, or the discovery that one can turn tequila into diamonds (no kidding, check it out).

But this is better.

Cheryl Marchek (thank you, Cheryl) has paid Fauna fifteen dollars so that I will NOT sell my adorable hamsters. This money has been sent to benefit Fauna, and the hamsters will live out their fat little lives eating hamster food, cheetos and pizza crusts and not biting Cheryl at all.

Thank you Cheryl!!!
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I would be willing to pay fifteen dollars, if you would be willing to put them back on the market again, so someone else can buy them! ;)

Wayne
 
LOL!
I don't mind if he pays you to sell them again! I guess we can see how many of us want to see Lucille stuck with those cute, vicious vermin and how many want to see them sold!
 
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