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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 David Davilman 'Never Enough Reptiles'

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On September 7th I sent David Davilman, “Never Enough Reptiles” the full payment for a crested gecko he had listed on Kingsnake after contacting him about purchasing the animal.

On September 8th he sent me a gecko. It was the wrong gecko; I contacted him immediately about the mixup. This is the animal when it first arrived.
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I noticed the front legs looked a little swollen and lumpy in person (it’s difficult to see in the photo), but ignored it as myself just being a little paranoid.

David was very nice and very apologetic. He said I could keep the wrong gecko (at the time I was pretty thrilled about that) and that he would send out the correct gecko on September 13th.

September 14th arrives, no gecko. I send him an e-mail asking if he’d sent the gecko because it had not arrived. He replied with:
“I sent you an email yesterday to confirm you could accept today. I didn't get a response so I didn't ship. Looking at our message log, it doesn't appear my email was sent.”

He shipped the gecko on the 15th. On the 16th no gecko, so I call him after checking the tracking number. The gecko didn’t leave the FedEx location; there was some type of mix up. Not his fault. He said he would ship out the following Monday.

The following day, I noticed the crested I had gotten from him was crashing BIG TIME when I got home in the morning from work.
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It’s flat, not fat, like a pancake and the legs are bowing severely. It was also shaking constantly, as though it had palsy.

There’s… not really any way MBD that bad could set in that fast, even if there was something going wrong with my care. I didn’t want to accuse, I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, and he did still have my other gecko so I didn’t want to act harshly prematurely. So I e-mailed him and asked what he was feeding them on the 17th. He said baby food and crickets. Concerned for the gecko of mine still in his care, I asked him to please feed it some extra calcium. He said he did.

I was really hoping it was a fluke, that it was just this one gecko.

On September 21st the correct gecko arrived. These are photos taken immediately out of the box (with the photo from the Kingsnake ad he had taken).
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Suspicions confirmed he wasn’t supplementing correctly, I e-mailed him immediately after taking the photos and sent those with the e-mail.

I e-mailed him twice more on the 22nd and asked him for a partial refund.

On the 23rd I e-mailed him again, saying, “Hey David, I’m not sure what went wrong with the geckos, but they’re both in bad shape and I’d appreciate a response.”

I have both e-mailed and called him with no response to any messages what-so-ever. I feel I’ve given him ample time to respond to me in some way about selling me geckos with MBD before making this post. I have also e-mailed him with a link to this topic should he choose to reply to it.

-(Amanda) Faye Parker
 
That sucks....that gecko definitely has something wrong with it that didn't just pop up over night. I hope that you get a resolution but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
 
Oof, looks like a classic case of "babyfood diet" caused MBD to me. Best of luck getting this dealt with.
 
E-mail correspondence would help.

If David plans on selling cresteds then he needs to invest in some CGD.. Baby Food and Crickets are just not enough for the poor babies. I would definately avoid purchasing from someone who doesn't properly care for his animals! It's sad that the poor babies are suffering at his hands :(
 
Can MBD like that be reversed with proper care? I sure hope so! Poor little baby looks skinny, too. :(
 
JudyC said:
Can MBD like that be reversed with proper care? I sure hope so! Poor little baby looks skinny, too. :(
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Sometimes, yes. It depends on how severe the MBD is, and how long the geckos have been going without a proper diet and supplements.
Unfortunatly those geckos were probably never cared for and fed properly. Usually the baby food diet results in an obese gecko, but those geckos look skinny- especially the last one. So it would seem to me from the way they look that not only was he feeding them the wrong food, but he was only feeding them barely enough to keep them alive.
I do hope they can be saved though - they have suffered enough.
At least they have a chance, since they are in better hands now.
 
Also, it may just be a severe calcium defeciency, and not true MBD.
Faye, have you checked the geckos calcium sacs yet?
 
Guys, while the MBD discussion is great and the help and advice is probably appreciated by the OP, this is still a BOI thread about David Davilman, not really the place for husbandry discussions about how to help these geckos.
Rather than a lengthy discourse about that here, taking the thread off the intended topic, take your advice about the condition and treatment of the geckos to PM or a thread in the discussion forums.
We need to keep BOI threads focused on the person or business they are about.
 
Not surprising that the seller hasn't posted a reponse to the BOI thread yet. Those cases of MBD are clearly caused by the poor diet fed to those geckos.
 
Deborah.. I believe the second set of pictures is the second gecko he received which was the original one that he ordered.
 
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