• 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.
  • 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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  • If you have a question, please don't ask me via bad karma. I was letting him know that he had pictures posted in case he wanted to see them. :)
    been good as well..im just finishing the season off with some girls still laying.really late season for me.i have a few for back up for this season.but we shall see.
    I appreciate that more then you know.. I completely understand.. I should have refunded you before I made the other purchase.. I didn't think my computer would do that to me so it's completely my fault... We all learn from our mistakes and I have learned a VERY Valuable lesson in this! Thank you for showing me the errors of my ways :)
    I payed that person for the snake.. went to pay your refund and the computer froze up on me... I found your paypal addy and sent the payment this afternoon as soon as I could get paypal working again. I have dial-up so my computer is extremely touchy about secure sites! I really am sorry about the whole situation and I wasn't trying to beat around the bush with you... I did make it right and hope that all is square!
    Deb, I asked you to give me some time to make sure that the person I sold the Het Albinos to was satisfied with them. I just E-mailed him and received a response last night that they were doing fine so I was going to refund the money. I couldn't get into my paypal account to send the money to you. I am in there now but I need your paypal address again so that I can send that to you now!
    I read the whole thing.

    You didn't give me BK for anything in your post. You went to Christina Davis thread and picked out a post to give me bad karma for. So if you are now saying that it was for giving you bad karma (before reading the whole thing...how would YOU know that?) that you gave me bad karma in CD thread for giving you BK in your post..that sounds awfully like "retaliation." You want to be careful with that.

    If you can't find a legitimate post within YOUR thread to give me BK for..it seems childish to search other threads and give a FAKE BK for something that happened in YOUR thread. But you are welcome to give as much BK as you please. :)
    Was talking about my post where you just have me bad karma before reading the whole thing, I already said I'd replace his reptile.
    I need to get an avatar one of these days. I'm getting tired of looking at the question mark.
    Yeah, unfortunately it seems like a lot of people just use it to beat up or retaliate against one another...
    Thanks for the Karma feedback (both positive and negative). Sometimes I need to be grounded when emotions get the better of me!
    Haha yea :D

    I browse the BOI a lot, but don't post a whole bunch. I'm mostly on BP.net as cinderbird :) Do you go to any of the shows here?
    noooooo...I'm still leetle Nicky :)

    The blue username is loud enough...caps would be overkill :)
    PSH! I'm sure there's plenty I can learn just from you, but thank you all the same. ^.^

    Hopefully we'll run into one another some day. That'd be epic.
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