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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.

Bad Guy Dale Anthony Dively daleanthonydively- misrepresenting flipped animal

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This has sense been somewhat resolved as the gecko is coming back for a refund, but I still feel like this should be known as this isn't the first time this has happened and likely won't be the last. This animal was first posted here on fauna within 2 hours of receiving it and was posted with false lineage. Please be patient and I will upload all proof

Dale Anthony Dively -misrepresenting animals

A friend named Domino Myles passed away this summer and her leachies and other geckos were being sold to raise money for a scholarship fund in her name. Mr. Dively offered less money for a single male and a pair of geckos, both being sold as animals with no locale or real info to go off of. He claimed the animal was ONLY going to be a pet, his kid loved them, etc and that is part of why he wasn't willing to pay more. He paid $750 shipped. We declined the pair deal as this female was worth more. Gecko shipped Monday for Tuesday.

He posted the gecko back up for sale less than a few hours after getting it on Tuesday. While this is scummy, it's not really a major offense. He only talked down the price on an animal for charity promising it would be a treasured pet. But not a crime and something I actually anticipated possibly.

However, he also posted the animal is a pure locale animal, a Nu Ana apparently. He was told it was non locale. Attached are screen shots of transaction and his for sale ads. In the comments I will also attach screen shots from Domino when she bought the geckos, saying they were non locale. He then told people inquiring about the gecko that it was "just brought to his attention that the animal is non locale" after being called out. Both his fauna and Facebook ads disappeared.

This is extremely shady and sad, especially when many people really take pride in lineage and info.
 

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More. The last two pics are from when Domino sent me that she was getting the geckos, proving they are non locale. Leapin Leachies has confirmed as well
 

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First photo is him back peddaling that the animal was just found to be non locale, when he knew from the start and used it as a bargaining chip. Second pic is confirmation from LL he wasn't listed accurately.
 

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Wow.

What kind of person takes advantage of grieving families and friends? Doing it in an ordinary situation is bad enough... but to use people's grief to try and turn a profit is just wrong.
 
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