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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.

Need Help Pricing Collection For Sale.

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Unfortunately I have to sell my collection, but I'm not current on today's market. I don't know if I am allowed to list what I have here, but can send a list what I have and weights. If anyone can help please PM or email me at [email protected]. Thanks in advance.
 
Sorry to hear you have to sell your collection!
I always recommend browsing the classifieds to get an idea of price ranges.
It should be fine if you want to list animals and ask for what people think the general market pricing would be or what they've seen similar go for - but discussion of buying/selling or people making offers would not be allowed that should be done via PMs or in the classifieds.
I hope that helps.
 
Ok, thank you. Here's the list:

-Male Clown, proven 1200g
-Male Pastel Mojave Yellowbelly, has
locked w/ female 700g
-Male Silver Streak 750g
-Male Pastel Champagne 485g
-Male Black Pastel double het Hypo
& Clown 300g
-Female Pastel Clown 500g
-Female Lesser het Clown 700g
-Female Mojave het Clown 400g
-Female Hypo 66% het Clown 300g
-Female Clown 66% het Hypo 300g
-Female Pastel Butter Granite 1300g
-Female Lesserbee 1500g
-Female Black Pewter 1400g
-Female Pastel Spotnose 1400g
-Female Bumblebee proven 1600g
 
Man, you have a collection that would make me proud. With collection sales you usually get way less than what market value is, I don't know what exactly your looking for but maybe start at 8,000-10,000? (Id get a few more opinions lol) You always start higher and work your way lower without selling yourself too short.
 
Thank you! I was actually trying to figure out their individual prices and list them. I don't mind selling them as a collection at a discount, just didn't think there are buyers that purchase whole collections.
 
Buyers are out there, you just might have to wait before the right person comes along. I was vending at a show a couple years back and the breeder next to me sold 30,000 dollars of boas for 8 grand. That was a huge market cut. But on the one other hand that seller no longer needed to worry about, like, 20+ snakes and make 8000. People buy collections, it just depends on what your price is.
 
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