• 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.
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  • crazycoolpaul
    OK So iam a contributing member and ever since the server change i can not upload picture's and this is really getting frustrating! the message i keep getting is
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    Hi, I wanted to know if you could add my last name? I rec'd an infraction for making a psot with out my last name. Thanks
    chongorojo
    Webslave I would like to say thank you for all you do for us and this hobby. Keepin the garbage in check and the scammers out of here . . Woo hoo good work. I posted a coment on boi yesterday and forgot my full name . . . .yet again, which earned me a second infraction on that slip of memory. hhmore let me know that I could ask you to put my full name in my account so that me and my feeble mind do not have to remember to add it to the bottom of my boi posts?? If you could do that for me when you get back from hiatus that would be great!! I feel bad when you moderators have to waste time giving me infractions for something that I forget to do. Again sorry for the extra work. thank you for your time and a great place to do business.

    Brian Hettinger
    Aka 480 Pythons
    WebSlave
    Mr. Sanders - I strongly suggest that you ask your attorney to become intimately familiar with the Communications Decency Act. I am pretty familiar with my own TOS here, but it sounds like neither yourself nor your attorney have actually read it.
    D
    Hello, I have recently visited a lawyer here in PA about business stuff. One thing that came up were the postings about myself and dragonfortress.com through your BOI forum. It appears that there are some legalities that come along with the false comments that were made against me through your site. Not only are these statements false, but your TOS clearly states that there are several violations during the posts from other users. I have been informed that I do have legal rights in this situation. I am kindly asking that you remove the posts which contain false information and where there are several violations of your TOS from other users. If they are not removed appropriately, I will be forced to seek other means to have the slanderous information removed against me. These threads are contained in the BOI, and I am sure that if you read them, along with other completely unrelated posts, you will see they violate your TOS, but they remain on the board? Please let me know your intentions. Thanks

    Edwin Sanders
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    HEY SO YOU DELETED ANOTHER ONE OF MY MESSAGES... DO YOU THINK YOUR COOL? I PUT MY NAME ON THERE YOU JERK.. STOP DELETING MY POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    MayorNewton
    Hi, 'Slave.' I know you're busy...sorry. This is 'Mayor Newton/Randolph James Linburg' and I'd like to know if it's 'kosher' that this 'Mick' (Fireside3) yesterday, as soon as he got off 'suspension,' edited his last post on this thread.(http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136668&highlight=Mick to add even more insults towards me? He writes:
    Basically, this accuser throws a hissy fit because I refuse to do business with him.

    He is NOT complaining that I took his money and he did not get a product.

    He is NOT complaining that he received a substandard product from me.

    He IS complaining that on the same day he placed his order ( after being rude and unreasonably demanding ) he received a full PayPal refund within hours of his payment, and I then asked him to do business somewhere else. My prerogative. Suck on it.

    Last edited by Fireside3; 07-11-2009 at 11:46 PM.

    One would think he would have understood to not post 'BOI-type' stuff on a 'regular' thread, after having been smacked for it once. Thanks for looking into it...I apologize, as I know you're busy. Mayor (Rj)
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    I was banned for not having my name in my profile and posted on the BOI. Please add it for me so I dont get banned again.

    Jay Hayden

    Thanks
    D
    Hi I was wondering if you could pm me about how or why im not
    receiving emails when someone replies to my adds thanks Keith
    dumje
    I tried too leave positive feedback for someone and it would not let me? Was it suspended from before? Will I get it back? how do i get it back?

    thanks
    Mike
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