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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.

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Today I stayed home from school. I planned to get Captain around 10:30am, put him in the tank and leave to go to my last class (Biology) at 11pm. I was not able to get on the internet today, so I could not check on his location on ups.com. From 11am - 5pm today I checked outside many times for him under the back porch (that's where I tell the UPS guy to leave packages) since I never heard anyone knock on the door. When he did arrive (5:09pm) I rushed to open the box because he had been in there for way longer then I expected. When I opened his container he was freezing cold and dead! I was very upset and went downstairs and sat on the couch and prayed that somehow GOD would bring him back. Since geckos are reptiles and cold blooded I went back into my room and held him between my hands hoping that somehow I could bring this dead gecko back to life. I knew that the only way for him to have a chance of coming back would be for him to get warm and his heart rate might pick back up. Around 15 minutes of holding him, his tail started to twitch. I really did not get excited because many things have electrical nerve transmission after they die causing them to move, plus, I didn't want to get my hopes up. About 2 minutes later I felt his arm move and noticed that his eyes were open. I then realized that he was alive and rushed to put him into my incubator which was already on. I covered him with vermiculture and closed the incubator. To make my long story shorter he was revived and appears to be okay. I looked in the box to see if the heat pack was still warm. I dumped all the peanut foam out and found it. It was cold and hardly big enough to keep him warm. How many hours was this thing supposed to last? From it's size I would only expect a couple of hours. This was really bad judgment on your part. With Captain being in such a large box and the heat dispersing throughout the box he had to have been very cold for almost the whole shipment. You really need to get bigger heat packs (Uni-heat 40 hour packs are good) if you care about your animals, and i'm sure you do. I am just happy that he is alive because he is such a beautiful gecko. I thanked GOD many times for using me to perform a miracle of life. I just wanted to inform you about this so it doesn't happen again, the next gecko might not be so lucky. Thank you for Captain, and I will care for him for the rest of his life.
thanks,
Matthew
East Coast Reptiles

This was the e-mail I sent after recieving the gecko. I will not post the companies name as not to bring negative attention to them because nothin intentionally wrong was done.
Thank you for your time
 
Sorry to say, but your gecko was most likely dormant because of the cold and not "dead", which is why he eventually became consious and started moving when you warmed him up. Glad he's ok after his ordeal though.
 
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