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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.

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I love chess. As a teen I even played in some tournys.
Anyway, about eight years ago I bought this chess set, a nice one. The person who made this set is Michael Ricker out of Colorado. After I purchased it at one of his outlets I went to his main place and met him in person, very nice man. Showed me around and to not ruin one of my pieces he engraved a gold plate with his name for me to put on the board. This set I bought is a limited edition and numbered.
Curious to see its value now I went to his site only to find out he passed away last year. I was saddened by this and wrote to his site to send my wishes to his family.
I received a letter back thanking me and stating that he and his sister are continuing in his brothers work and asked for my address and phone number to put on record as I do own a pretty big piece of work.
If I knew for sure it was his brother I would give my info but as it is over the internet I am not so sure. It looks like his official site but it does not look like it has been used plus there was a re-sell place that is no longer up.
I am not sure exactly what I am asking here...do they have an obligation to keep these records discreet?
I know I am sounding paranoid and perhaps I am a bit but this particular piece had gone up by about 1k before his passing...
Maybe I should just ask to call him and then ask and give the info?
 
maybe you should get His phone number and then see where that leads you. maybe call other places around that area. Just dont give them your address... just in case. Good Luck, Im sorry that he passed away.. but its nice that you have something wonderful from him too! and an engraving... which is very cool as well!
 
It is a very nice set Alicia. The theme is North American wildlife so it is all animals and made from pewter. Like the kings are elk with a nice rack (antlers)
I am going to try to get ahold of the brother by phone, I believe he said he is at the store in San Diego Ca. Thanks for your reply.
 
Somehow I just KNEW you would be the one to pick that up :dancer01:
Shouldn't have left that queen of yours exposed, pawn takes queen. :raspberry
 
My queen, if she wants to expose her rack, well far be it from me to control that. Lucky pawn.....
 
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