• 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.
  • 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.

Two Headed Albino Hognose

Hey I am new here and just saw this post. Just wondering how the little thing is doing it is ToO Cute !
 
bigjej said:
Why are you all hating on him so much? Don't like it? Dont buy it. If the price is higher than its value to someone, then it wont sell and its his problem, not yours. If you really want to hate on someone, there are plenty of sellers here offering wild caught animals that are endangered and have a high probability of being illegally sold, with false paperwork, or legal animals being sold to inappropriate buyers, and other such examples. An object is worth as much as someone will pay for it. That simple.
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The hating is a bad idea period...
It definitely won't fly in the classifieds, and there are increasing restrictions on that type of stuff even on the BOI. If somebody's got to gripe about a member's ad, let them tell it to their spouse, significant other, friend, dog, or whoever. Disrupting an ad with negative comments WILL result in infractions...and any sideline bickering resulting from those negative comments is fair game as well.
 
sweet snake if i had the cash it would be mine dont worry about the people bitch about the price if it was theres they would do the same. remember theres a a$$ for every seat someone will sit down when they got the $$ good luck
 
i agree......its cool,extremely rare and worth it to some one who has a need for something no one else has.and has stupid amounts of money.i meet people like that who will pay what ever for something like that.Has it eaten yet? (I cant belive your posting it in other places for that price and hasn't eaten and theres a chance it might not even be able to properly take the food down. I'm not downing you for how much your asking because I want to get paid as much as the next guy but at least get it eating so your not screwing someone out of their cash.)and your not screwing someone if they know that it hasnt fed yet.if you dont like it dont buy it,but quit complaining about someone else who is doing something you wish you where.thats for the haters.....lol
 
I just think that is crazy money for an annomoly that pops up like you said one in a million. If it only comes up that much,it obviously is not genetic and can't be reproduced with it. It probably will not live long. You are like the freak that sold the grilled cheese with the shape of jesus on ebay for crazy money.......lucky for you there are retarted people out there with too much money!
 
Enough comments from the peanut gallery. I strongly urge anybody considering making a negative comment to think twice - three times if necessary. This ad is 5 months old, and this is not a discussion forum.
 
One forum member has to make a motion to change the thread into a discussion followed by another member shouting "second".

I say we turn this thread into a discussion. Any seconds?
 
..lol if it hatched in anyone of their collections they would be asking an astronomical price tag on it as well, hopefully they are eating and growing fine its a very well formed oddityand its Albiino, michael jackson bought the skeleton of the elephant man for a shit ton of money rite .. people need to stop hatin...like i said if it popped up in anyone of their incubators they would be tru the roof with it ....people need to stop hatin
 
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