• 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.

Did anyone see this???

How exactly does one ensure that eggs (or the boxes their in) don't get rotated during shipping. For that matter, I'd be impressed with ANYONE who could ship a package and keep it within +-1 degree. Check out some of the rest of his site. It's pure promotional money-making bullsh... His front page basically admits that this is just another business of his trying to make some money.

He even has his own book on the care of leos.. .featuring a special green-headed leo and a picture of cash...and he says "you can judge this book by its cover". I'm also thinking some of his sold animals are fake... some are the exact same weight and (from what you can tell behind the big sold banner) they look very similiar. Nobody has 30 animals that weigh the exact same (even to the nearest hundreth!).

And take a look at his terms... definitly lawyer-written. Check out the sections discussing order returns and live animals... kinda funny actually. If you buy anything and something happens, it's damn near impossible to get a claim, even if you paid for delta dash...
 
WOW this guy is a real riot! Just reading his site I would never never never (wait did I say NEVER) buy from him. My head hurts just reading that terms page, and the terms are rediculous (50% charge is order cancelled?!?!) wow is all I have to say. Oh ya I hate the shipping of the leo eggs, it will never work.
 
Milwaukee Reptiles said:
And take a look at his terms... definitly lawyer-written. Check out the sections discussing order returns and live animals... kinda funny actually. If you buy anything and something happens, it's damn near impossible to get a claim, even if you paid for delta dash...
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I'm glad you pointed that out.

I would never purchase anything from a seller with that sort of legal disclaimer. How bout a guarantee that says "I will help guide you through any problems you may occur"?

Geeze, I'm glad someone else noticed this guy besides me. I knew I would never buy from him when he rudely started another conversation while I was speaking with him at a show...lesson learned.
 
This is so sad to see. Just think anyone unknowing enough to buy one of these eggs is probally new to reptiles. With the bad exsperience they on bound to have who is to say they would ever try keeping any reptiles ever again.

This really should be brought to the BOI threads as a warning.
 
I think putting up a thread on KS or reptileroom will work better as there are more new reptile owners there?
 
Why sell eggs for 5 dollars? Wait a few months and get 30 for the gecko! What if one of the eggs was a bright golden leo?? I wouldnt sell somthing till i knew what it would look like.
 
Milwaukee Reptiles said:
KS would likely remove a thread bashing it's paying advertisers.... they're not nearly as nice as Webslave...
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Sombody wanted to know of a good breeder in the WI area and i said garrick deymeyer and gave his site and that thread was deleted. Theyre way too strict.
 
I emailed him and here's the response:

"With regard to you question, we are working on a successful manner in which to ship fertile leopard geckos eggs, so that they will arrive viable an extremely high percentage of the time; however, as for now, we are only permitting for pick-up and delivery, based on successful trials. Yes, we do guarantee fertile eggs."

-Courtland from Coldbloods.com


If this is any consolation to anyone.
 
geckonate said:
I emailed him and here's the response:

"With regard to you question, we are working on a successful manner in which to ship fertile leopard geckos eggs, so that they will arrive viable an extremely high percentage of the time; however, as for now, we are only permitting for pick-up and delivery, based on successful trials. Yes, we do guarantee fertile eggs."

-Courtland from Coldbloods.com


If this is any consolation to anyone.
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I still dont see why someone would want an egg, just buy a hatchling.
 
The NY Gecko said:
I still dont see why someone would want an egg, just buy a hatchling.
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Maybe because they think they can get away with paying five bucks instead of 30 for a hatchling and hope that the egg lives.
 
Then in that case its in my personal opinion that the person deserves to be slapped. Anyone agree or am I alone on that one?
 
Did you girls and guys also notice that he had 31 eggs hatch on 6/13/04 alone.... I smell a big steaming pile of BS.....
 
Gregg M said:
Did you girls and guys also notice that he had 31 eggs hatch on 6/13/04 alone.... I smell a big steaming pile of BS.....
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I read the index page, that was enough for me.
 
How nice it would be for 3 seperate clutches of over 20 eggs each to hatch the same day... Also most seem to be ~35 gram 2 year olds.... granted he doesn't list the day of the photo or the weighing, but still

Gotta love the date on this girl (just lends itself to the fact this is fake):

ID#: CB.WS.EMLG-03
Hatch Date: 12/34/56
Weight: 36.69 grams
Sex: Female
Price: $125.00
 
Agreed, it would be a really good post there. Now where's that moderator when you need her....
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Oh, I'm right here... exactly what do you need me for? If you are suggesting I move this thread to the BOI, that I will not do. :hehe: Any of you are free to start a BOI thread on the company however. Ah, it looks as if one has been started :) Thanks Gregg. Anything relevant should be posted in that thread.
 
Thanks Gregg. And Kelli that was the suggestion but I was just giving you a hard time. Good to see you're on top of your game :)
 
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