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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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SOLD!! Marbled Children's Pythons

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I love this species of python because they are small lovely and cute.
But right now i can keep them due to the nature of my work.
Please i will love my python to fined a new home with reptile lovers and good care .I got male and female.
Contact me if you need them i will lovely ship them over to you for a nice price .
please email me directly to this email account :

[email protected]

Thanks i will be waiting to read from you.......
 

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SCAM

VERY UNLIKELY you'll be reading from anyone here on Fauna...

Did you really think you'd scam someone here with the same BS all scammers use??

It's just a moment or 2 away, before you're banned...
 
Marbles children's

Hello I my sell love these snakes and would love to have a pair as well but I was wondering if you would ship first and I give you my word that I would send payment as soon as receiving a pair please let me know would love to hear from you thanks
 
hhahaha!! thanks to all who put em in his spot quickly.. its possible he could of got someone new to fauna like myself
 
ThomMinota said:
hhahaha!! thanks to all who put em in his spot quickly.. its possible he could of got someone new to fauna like myself
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Hang around here for a while before you get your credit card out. Read all the ads. Read what the old-timers say in response to them. Learn how scammers work, and how to spot them. Always only send secured funds.

People who sign up today and buy a reptile tomorrow are easy prey for scammers. Don't be easy prey.
 
If you do a reverse image search on the photo, it is from a FB page from a pet store in Australia.

No one bought it. Well, no one in the US, and not from Iowa.
 
Its too bad there's not a branch of law enforcement that would be interested enough to track some of these douchebags down.
 
som16724 said:
Its too bad there's not a branch of law enforcement that would be interested enough to track some of these douchebags down.
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What, in Nigeria? Pakistan? Russia? Good luck with all that. Call Interpol -- maybe they're not busy next week and can look into this.

There isn't enough time left before the heat death of the universe to track down all these scammers, let alone the funds. They're innumerable, and scattered all over the world.
 
I realize that quite a few of them are in other countries, but a bunch are right here. I also realize most law enforcement agencies don't have the time or resources, I just wish they did. People like these go unpunished, and that sucks.
 
som16724 said:
People like these go unpunished, and that sucks.
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Agreed.

If everyone gets smarter (much smarter; collectively, and since time began, humans are as sharp as a bag of wet hair on these things) about scammers -- not just fake herp sellers, but phone scammers, Russian email spoofers, comment bots on YouTube, statistical data illusionists, advertising gimmicks, personality cults, misleading warranty terms on household appliances, Instagram photo editing, and all the rest -- they will go away. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a brain is a good guy with a brain.

The list of human misbehaviors that have been successfully addressed by the "cuff-em-and-stuff-em" method is vanishingly small, unfortunately.
 
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