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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.

Bad Guy Philip Vena buy-axolotls.com

It is a bummer of a situation but we only lost $30. Paypal disputed the rest after Mr. Vena decided to notify his credit card company and withdrew the purchase. Not sure the correct language there with the credit card company hold. If PayPal paid him the extra $165 then he owes that amount to PayPal.
 
ChameleonCans said:
It is a bummer of a situation but we only lost $30. Paypal disputed the rest after Mr. Vena decided to notify his credit card company and withdrew the purchase. Not sure the correct language there with the credit card company hold. If PayPal paid him the extra $165 then he owes that amount to PayPal.
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Ah, okay.
Good to see that it was only $30, that you lost, rather than the entire amount.
Although, if 10 Axolotls were not missing, it would be $30 too much.
Either way, considering it could have been worse, it turned out "okay".
 
Pasodama said:
Ah, okay.
Good to see that it was only $30, that you lost, rather than the entire amount.
Although, if 10 Axolotls were not missing, it would be $30 too much.
Either way, considering it could have been worse, it turned out "okay".
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Better than worse, but not least worst.
 
Yeah, l would just prefer people to buy our axolotl from us rather than buy our axolotl through him.
 
To be fair it wasn't until post #21 that ChameleonCans clarified only $30 was returned and not the entire $195. Until that point I also thought the entire order had been stolen, and more than one member tossed the words "theif" and "stolen" around. Considering the seller insists they sent the complete order amount (plus extra) and a chargeback was filed regardless, the label "thief" might be accurate and not libel whatsoever.
 
Only 15-20 were "stolen" from me but the remaining 40 were "stolen" from PayPal. Regardless of the lack of proof I have, there is plenty of evidence that the axolotl were stolen from PayPal as the complete $195 was refunded to Mr. Vena. He ended the deal with 40-60 axolotl and $195.
 
ChameleonCans said:
Only 15-20 were "stolen" from me but the remaining 40 were "stolen" from PayPal. Regardless of the lack of proof I have, there is plenty of evidence that the axolotl were stolen from PayPal as the complete $195 was refunded to Mr. Vena. He ended the deal with 40-60 axolotl and $195.
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That was something I was thinking about after learning that you only lost $30. If Mr. Vena sought a full refund (as it appears), it would still make him a person wanting/seeking to get something for nothing.
 
This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

This is a false statement. As you know from the post that you removed. You have 30 days from today April 30, 2015 to May 30, 2014 remove this link;

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455000

Should you decided not to remove it, After May 30, 2014 I will then take legal action against you. To have the Court make you remove it. I will also ask the Court to issue penitiles and damages you have cause me.

This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

Philip Vena
Founder of Buy-Axolotls.com

We Protect Axolotls
www.Buy-Axolotls.com
4531 Cornell Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515-2609 USA
(Near West Side of Chicago)
Phone: 1-630-390-7070 (Landline)
Email: [email protected]
 
If there is a possibility of legal actions, please delete my posts. I don't have time to mess with it. However, I do believe that a few people, Jacob included, where planning on buying thousands of dollars worth of reptiles until they saw this post by Mr. Vena.
 

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Buy-Axolotls said:
This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

This is a false statement. As you know from the post that you removed. You have 30 days from today April 30, 2015 to May 30, 2014 remove this link;

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455000

Should you decided not to remove it, After May 30, 2014 I will then take legal action against you. To have the Court make you remove it. I will also ask the Court to issue penitiles and damages you have cause me.

This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

Philip Vena
Founder of Buy-Axolotls.com
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Boy does this bring back memories! I dealt with some crooks from Chicago years ago
that basically said the same thing. I told them to bring,then shove it!:thumbsup:
 
Buy-Axolotls said:
This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

This is a false statement. As you know from the post that you removed. You have 30 days from today April 30, 2015 to May 30, 2014 remove this link;

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455000

Should you decided not to remove it, After May 30, 2014 I will then take legal action against you. To have the Court make you remove it. I will also ask the Court to issue penitiles and damages you have cause me.

This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

Philip Vena
Founder of Buy-Axolotls.com

We Protect Axolotls
www.Buy-Axolotls.com
4531 Cornell Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515-2609 USA
(Near West Side of Chicago)
Phone: 1-630-390-7070 (Landline)
Email: [email protected]
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This will not be removed, ever. If you're going to make empty threats, you might consider proofreading them next time. You messed up your dates - it's 2014, and I doubt you really meant that the court would issue "penitiles". I'm not sure what those are, but it sounds like something a reptile would have two of.

Remember (and I've phrased this is a way I hope you'll understand):
"How You Represent Yourself I Under Your Control."
 
Reset the counter to zero.

I think simply telling your side of the story would have done your business MUCH less damage than that nonsense you posted.

What's your side of the story?
 
Buy-Axolotls said:
This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

This is a false statement. As you know from the post that you removed. You have 30 days from today April 30, 2015 to May 30, 2014 remove this link;

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455000

Should you decided not to remove it, After May 30, 2014 I will then take legal action against you. To have the Court make you remove it. I will also ask the Court to issue penitiles and damages you have cause me.

This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

Philip Vena
Founder of Buy-Axolotls.com

We Protect Axolotls
www.Buy-Axolotls.com
4531 Cornell Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515-2609 USA
(Near West Side of Chicago)
Phone: 1-630-390-7070 (Landline)
Email: [email protected]
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You made my night. I love it.. The old threat of a Huge Lawsuit, with damages and Penalties, and prison time, and a hanging.. It cracks me up. Does anyone who threatens a lawsuit in this manner ever go through with it? " My Brother is a lawyer and where gonna sue you" Or Im suing for liable, slander et. It never happens. I love America, If anything ever goes wrong its " Im gonna Sue"!!!
 
Please let me remind you that I won my Paypal dispute with you. listed below:

Chris Van Aken PP-002-927-971-128 Other

Chargeback
-$195.00 USD 1/28/2014 Case Closed 2/7/2014 View

Let me also remind you that you do not have a Guarantee Live Arrival, and that you intentionally try to kill the Axolotls by not putting any air in the bag.
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So, you openly admit you originally attempted to charge back the entire $195.00 cost of your purchase, even though you actually did receive at least 40 of the 50 ordered? And then want to brag about it? Yeah, okay.

Additionally, even if they do not have a Live Arrival Guarantee in place, you freely chose to place an order. That said, I personally will never order from a vendor who only advertises on FB and does not have full TOS disclosed. Fail #1.

So, you also publicly state that Chameleon Cans intentionally tries to kill their Axolotls by not putting air in their shipping bags? Hmmm, sounds like libel to me. You got proof of no air and your 40 Axolotls in "the bag"? Fail #2.

This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

This is a false statement. As you know from the post that you removed. You have 30 days from today April 30, 2015[ to May 30, 2014 remove this link
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Yeah, this last one is kind of a joke. Text-book litigation threat along with the Back To The Future time threat to remove the thread. Does kind of induce a chuckle.
 
Buy-Axolotls said:
This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

This is a false statement. As you know from the post that you removed. You have 30 days from today April 30, 2015 to May 30, 2014 remove this link;

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455000

Should you decided not to remove it, After May 30, 2014 I will then take legal action against you. To have the Court make you remove it. I will also ask the Court to issue penitiles and damages you have cause me.

This is NOT A JOKE. What Happens Next I Under Your Control.

Philip Vena
Founder of Buy-Axolotls.com

We Protect Axolotls
www.Buy-Axolotls.com
4531 Cornell Avenue
Downers Grove, IL 60515-2609 USA
(Near West Side of Chicago)
Phone: 1-630-390-7070 (Landline)
Email: [email protected]
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Oh, no! Not the penitiles!

Apparently, this is NOT A JOKE!
 
ChameleonCans said:
We do not guarantee live arrival on shipments in which the buyer chooses two day deliver over next day. On all of our shipments we try to push the seller into using next day shipping which we offer live arrival. However, most people choose to save the money and select two day shipping over next day shipping. Mr. Vena chose two day shipping over next day shipping.
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Here is a quote from Buy-Axolotls.com:

"Next Day Air shipping is the best way to ship a live Water Dragon (Axolotl) because it has the lowest risk for your Water Dragon (Axolotl) will NOT be Dead on Arrival or Dying when it arrives.

It seems a bit hypocritical for Vena to cheap out when buying when he seems to be so concerned when selling. Appears to be all about the money, in my opinion. And in my opinion, this thread shows that 'money first' mindset of Mr. Vena's to be true.

Buy-Axolotls said:
This is NOT A JOKE.
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No, it isn't. I think anyone thinking of doing business with you needs to see this thread.
 
Phil the only way you would have a leg to stand on is if you had paid for overnight shipping and all of the axolotl came in dead, neither of which happened.....and you received a full refund, isn't that fraud?
But it is nice that you offered all of us penitiles....thanks but I will probably just pick some up locally.
 
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