• In the past two days I have gotten emails asking about being requested to provide credit card info in order to register and also to make a post in the classifieds forums. PLEASE NOTE: In no instance will this site ask you for this sort of information. The only time any request for payment is made is if you choose to opt-in for a higher membership level, and that is done SOLELY through PayPal. Anything else is coming from a source other than this site. My guess is that this is coming through Google Adsense, but when I can get someone to send me a screen shot of this sort of request, I will know more.
  • 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.

Stop texting my number

I'm trying to figure out why a new thread is an effective way to handle this. Your ads (a) specifically direct prospective purchasers to text you, and (b) aren't, as far as I saw, marked as 'sold' either in the header or in a reply. Somewhat famously, there isn't a time period after which all readers presume that an animal is sold.

There also (and also famously) are thousands of scammers and thieves trolling ad boards like this one looking for emails and phone numbers to reach out to in order to take advantage of someone. They know low-hanging fruit when they see someone unwise enough not to use the PM system for sales contacts. Likely at least some of your annoyers are professional scammers. Lesson learned, hopefully, to keep the place clean so as not to attract cockroaches.

But for the legit buyers maybe a polite reply to each of the ad threads pointing out that the animal is sold is in order? Sounds too simple to help, I know, but has the virtue of being pretty easy to figure out. ;)
 
Can't take 5 seconds to type SOLD, but will take a couple minutes to post a public outcry screaming "leave me alone, NOW LOOK AT ME"!

Typical of the world these days.
 
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