• 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.

Bad Guy BRIEN KLIEN

So, here is my revised theory:

Obviously John is the "J" in the "S&J" formula for success.

Shelby does the deal with me while John is at McDonalds working and when he comes home from a hard day's work she is giddy with excitement at the deal she has struck with me. He is tired and doesn't pay full attention since she runs the show while he is at work. He tells her thats a good job and goes to bed to get ready for the next hard days work.

The next day she sends me the Leos and discovers that I have added more EBT's to my add and tells him about it when he calls on lunch break. He is angry that she did not get more for the trade citing the original expense that they may or may not have shelled out for the leo group on the way to my house. She, in order to save face and to stop the haranguing from hubby starts to figure out a way to humiliate me into submission. Throwing the Spotlight from her bad deal onto me.

I think that pretty much sums it up.

Brian
 
brianklein said:
So, here is my revised theory:

Obviously John is the "J" in the "S&J" formula for success.

Shelby does the deal with me while John is at McDonalds working and when he comes home from a hard day's work she is giddy with excitement at the deal she has struck with me. He is tired and doesn't pay full attention since she runs the show while he is at work. He tells her thats a good job and goes to bed to get ready for the next hard days work.

The next day she sends me the Leos and discovers that I have added more EBT's to my add and tells him about it when he calls on lunch break. He is angry that she did not get more for the trade citing the original expense that they may or may not have shelled out for the leo group on the way to my house. She, in order to save face and to stop the haranguing from hubby starts to figure out a way to humiliate me into submission. Throwing the Spotlight from her bad deal onto me.

I think that pretty much sums it up.

Brian
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Bravo! That about sums it up, IMO! :yesnod:
 
You guys do realize who she was right???

Remember geckoguy what ever John Perkins that threw a fit and made a false "bad guy" thread on me, he got banned.. Came back and said he was leaving for good. Well she made a comment about her bro being right about this places and she was never coming back either. HAHA..

Amanda
 
I believe her "bro" is her husband ... I posted a link to a marriage photo earlier in the thread -

I sincerely hope they are not blood related! :ack2:
 
Oh so her mans name is John?? 0.0 Ooooooook

Humm odd she said her brother, yuck just junk.. lol!!

Oh' well he did say he was married and when he left the site she became active so was probably him posting that crap the whole time.
 
I am almost 100% positive that Shelby was actually John the whole time. If you go back and read the John Perkins stuff he says,"WOW" a lot and the same with my correspondence with him/her.

Brian
 
joseydiann said:
You guys do realize who she was right???

Remember geckoguy what ever John Perkins that threw a fit and made a false "bad guy" thread on me, he got banned.. Came back and said he was leaving for good. Well she made a comment about her bro being right about this places and she was never coming back either. HAHA..

Amanda
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Oops, you were already onto him. Sorry I was asleep at the wheel.

:iagree: Brian
 
I agree Craig. Was probally a dude the whole time.
 
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