• 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.
  • 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.

Greg Vanzweden to be avoided as a customer or a seller ~ Possible Mental Illness

If I had felt is would be better to wait 30 or 90 days before I shipped to avoid being scammed I would have done just that. In this business one has to watch their backs and even the backs of their friends to watch out for porential problems suck as this. I truly feel that If I had shipped the same day I received the return I would be out the monies for the thransaction as Greg would have put some type of paypal dispute on them. Like Jim said it is done now and there is no chance of it ever happening with you or your brother again. Just for the record I do talk to 90% of my customers before they place an order with me.. I consider everyone of my customers my friends!!!
 
Kathryn Mary,

Here's your last post:
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Lest there be any confusion about my above post, after the first sentance, all of the "you's" refer to Kathryn Mary.
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i figured it was me you were refering as you are most likely matts friend and not mine, even though matt has commented more than i on this subject.

kathrynmary
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KM, I believe that I can say straight-faced that I mean you no ill will. This is also the second thread in a week in which I have been accused of being a friend to someone I do not know, never met, and have never done business with. Whatever my motivations are, and it is pointless for me to state them as each will assign what they will, I have no personal stake in Matt G. KM, I am not unsympathetic with your earlier concerns about how your brother was characterized. Rightly or wrongly, I would have fired a few salvos in reply myself. And once done, I can only hope that a friend would have contacted me and taken me drinking!
 
Matt,

Don't you got some guns to go shoot? A nice young lady to take to dinner? A new order that needs shipped? Maybe a cage or two that needs cleaned? Perhaps some bird droppings that need pressure washed off your deck?
 
shrap said:
Matt,

Don't you got some guns to go shoot? A nice young lady to take to dinner? A new order that needs shipped? Maybe a cage or two that needs cleaned? Perhaps some bird droppings that need pressure washed off your deck?
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Actually all of the above..lol IM done..
 
Kathryn, Matt had every reason to be careful with an order coming from you after having to deal with your brother. The run around Greg gave Matt has been quite interesting and at times difficult to follow. As for me, I would have been extremely cautious, as Matt was, if another person came into the situation to buy products stating they are related to a person I just had a hard time putting an order together for. Not to mention being accused of destroying merchandise before shipment when the accuser did not properly read the ad before placing the order. Why would Matt not be careful after Greg had other people involved as it is, along with the possibility all the e-mails were from Greg and no one else?
 
OK one more.. I know it is hard to follow but the money sent to me by Kathryn was for Gregs products..lol..
 
I'm glad I brought your fakeness to light, it appears Tons of bigger reptile breeders then I ever was. Had many problems with you, and where are you're sheep now? It's funny I came across this 20 years later, yet remember it perfectly.

No one mentioned the real problem, I don't know why that is. But you're out on bad terms now, and I am not. Any words at all Matthew?
Why would someone buy that many feet in 12 inch flex? It was all cut to 10 and 11inch peaces, it would make so much more sense to buy a roll of 10 inch & let me cut it.

Everyone that backed his great customer service, is a joke. 😆 Just look at urself and think about it. Matt has been found guilty of many many things, on here now as it clearly shows. If you are so inclined to look, can't say I'm sorry about non of it. Glad you got what was coming 😊 to bad others didn't listen up. I was way to busy to waste my time on you 20 years ago. But id like to poke at you now, if your still with US?
 
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