• 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.
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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.

People who forgot where they came from

That is the nature of the beast when it comes to business, even though it should be common sense should say remember your roots
 
No, I'm not siding with either one of you, but....Seriously? You had to post this in the Bearded Dragon Discussion Forum? This is nothing more than a tift that you want other people to side with you on. If he doesn't want to come off his price then he doesn't have to. That gives you some options...1) Buy from him and shut up about it, 2) Buy from him and continue to gripe, 3) Don't buy from him and shut up about it, or 4) Don't buy from him and continue to gripe. Either way you go, this wasn't something that needed to be brought to the Discussion forum. Simple thing is, Don't buy from him, and then you won't need a reason to gripe about his prices.

Just because he's bought from you, and you gave him certain prices, does not mean that he has to return that favor. You could have charged him just as much, if not more, yet you chose not to. Who's fault is that; YOURS, not his. He's entitled to price his dragons at whatever price he wants, and not come off the price if he doesn't want to.

So don't be talking about "ethics" and "roots". It's all a matter of what one chooses to do. Hell you started this thread, and then decide to tell him,
if you want to talk with me call me.
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That's pretty childish on your part. Call him out in a public forum and then expect him to take it to phone calls. If you want to do that, you should have done it in the first place, and saved the forum space.

Just my two cents. Like I said, I'm not siding with anyone on this matter, just seems to me that this whole thing could have been handled differently from the get go!
 
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