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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.
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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.

California Silkworms (John Lucas and Dennis Scott): Bad Business Practices

Lorraine

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I really hate to do this but things here have gotten a little too out of hand. Around January of this year, John Lucas mentioned that he was starting a website. He was going to sell silkworms and I was going to sell lobster roaches. My part of the deal was that he would be allowed to use my kingsnake account to post our ads and his part was that he would design and pay for the website, we were going to share all advertising costs and booth costs that would arise. I took lots of pictures of my animals eating silkworms for him to use on the site and helped correct all his spelling errors on all the pages of the site. Things went fine for awhile but then my living situation became alittle unstable and I had to stay at my moms for a time. I told John to send all the orders to my earthlink account because I had no way of checking the california silkworm email account from my moms house. I continued to get all orders out on time until John sent two orders to the wrong email address and I did not receive them. Those two orders were placed by Lane Gergely and William Alexander. John called on Thurs wanting to make sure that I had gotten Lanes order out on time and I told him I never received the order. He resent them to the right email address and I mailed them out the following Monday, April 19. I included a note of apology for the delay and doubled the orders for free to make up for it. John then informed me by phone that things had changed, he needed a more reliable supplier and he had found a new one already. I later learned out that this new supplier was Dennis Scott. I had considered Dennis a friend and I had given him free roaches about three months earlier when he had told me he was thinking of starting a colony. I also spent several hours on msn messenger with him telling him how to set up the bins and what to feed them. I had helped Dennis before with chameleon advice and looked up and info he needed in books, even offering to lend the books to him if he needed them. I also learned that Dennis and John had been planning this for awhile, I think they were just waiting until they had an excuse. The only reason I am posting all of this is because it was brought up on a thread about Aline how Dennis had stabbed me in the back. Dennis was calling all of it outright lies and is now threatening to sue a friend of mine for slander which is kind of hard when my friend only told the truth. So heres your big chance Dennis, all of the slander written down for you by the originator of the so called lies, if you want to make a legal issue out of this then it had better be with me. Stop being such a coward and threatening my friends, if you want to do it then stop sneaking around and lets just bring all of this out in the open for everyone to see. So far your best excuse for any of this is that I'm not a friend, just an acquitance, and that my boyfriend handed you the roaches. I'm sorry but thats a pretty poor excuse for what you have done. Lets see if you can some up with a better one on here. I am anxiously awaiting your response.

Bonnie Person
 
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