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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.

Is this a scammer?

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I received a request to buy some items from 2 of my different posts in Other Herp Related Supplies. The person used the same phone number (256-600-2959) for 2 different member names (One1 and lounder101). This person also used 2 different names and is located in 2 different places. When I call the number I cannot reach anyone. When I text the number the person is very vague about my questions...
 
How were you initially contacted? PM, email, did you put your mobile # in the ad...???
 
I was contacted through the Fauna Private Message Center and given a number to text from the person who was interested in my items.
 
Is there a way for Fauna administrators to check into this individual and delete his account if he is a scammer? I would never have suspected this "duck" if I was not contacted twice.
 
marc said:
Is there a way for Fauna administrators to check into this individual and delete his account if he is a scammer? I would never have suspected this "duck" if I was not contacted twice.
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Forward the PM to any moderator and explain what happened.
 
marc said:
Is there a way for Fauna administrators to check into this individual and delete his account if he is a scammer? I would never have suspected this "duck" if I was not contacted twice.
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I took care of this yesterday. Sorry, got other things on my mind at the moment.
 
I received a PM from a user bestowedlord, with the same number. Was this person a scammer? The user name has zero posts, and joined today 6/15/22. When I searched the number this thread popped up.

Thanks
Buddy B
 
buddyb said:
I received a PM from a user bestowedlord, with the same number. Was this person a scammer? The user name has zero posts, and joined today 6/15/22. When I searched the number this thread popped up.

Thanks
Buddy B
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The weed appears to have already been pulled.
 
buddyb said:
I received a PM from a user bestowedlord, with the same number. Was this person a scammer? The user name has zero posts, and joined today 6/15/22. When I searched the number this thread popped up.

Thanks
Buddy B
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In the future if you think a user is a scammer just report the post or forward the PM to a moderator so we can investigate.
 
Suspect scammer

I suspect this phone number is a scammer, he texted me, wants to “ send immediate payment “, with cashiers check, buying for father in law, surprise gift, looked up phone number and found this, told me he wanted snake shipped to Pennsylvania, 19132.
 
blichtenhan said:
I suspect this phone number is a scammer, he texted me, wants to “ send immediate payment “, with cashiers check, buying for father in law, surprise gift, looked up phone number and found this, told me he wanted snake shipped to Pennsylvania, 19132.
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Both your email address and cell # are in your ads, which makes it easy for scammers to harvest them and contact you since they don't have to create an account to scam you.

Remove them and have initial comms go through the PM system. That way if you get a bad vibe from a buyer you can have a moderator investigate the buyer's account.
 
I received a message from this scammer as well. Messaged me on here a couple days ago saying they were interested in the skinks I have for sale. Wanted to pay by certified check, so I searched up the number they provided and came across this post.
Hope nobody ends up actually sending animals to this low life.
 
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