• 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.

Disturbing Email from Mephia

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"Hello my dear,
My name is mephia,i saw your contact today at (www.faunaclassifieds.com)
and became interested in you,i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.I believe we can move from here!
(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life) Thanks.
Yours,
mephia.
My email address is;

[email protected]"

Has anyone else got this? I hope it's a scam. lol Unfortunately I messaged her back...

"What the Hell are you talking about?"
 
Yeah, I know of a few people that did...think I was one of them, lol. The name looks familiar; but the subject message didn't indicate any reason I should read the emails, so I deleted them
 
i will also like to know you the more,and i want you to send an email to my email address so i can give you my picture for you to know whom i am.I believe we can move from here!
(Remeber the distance or colour does not matter but love matters alot in life)
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Might have been fun to lead her on a little to see what she had to offer. :yesnod:
 
I got the same email as well. Is she a member on fauna? I was going to look her up (not for any personal gain just to see who she was!! : )but didnt get a chance.

chris
 
I got the email as well, and just deleted it. It smacks of one of those Nigerian scammer emails. Looks like quite a few of us were probably spammed.
 
Be careful about responding to any e-mail like that. I don't know exactly what they do with the info, or how they do what they do, but I've had friends reply to similar spams and all of the sudden, their e-mail had been hacked into! After they gained that access to my friend's e-mail, they started using it to contact everyone in his address book (including me!), trying to scam everyone from money, saying they had gotten stuck in some other country and please western union them some cash to help them get home, or something to that effect. Safest thing to do is just hit "delete".
 
Matt2979 said:
Be careful about responding to any e-mail like that. I don't know exactly what they do with the info, or how they do what they do, but I've had friends reply to similar spams and all of the sudden, their e-mail had been hacked into! After they gained that access to my friend's e-mail, they started using it to contact everyone in his address book (including me!), trying to scam everyone from money, saying they had gotten stuck in some other country and please western union them some cash to help them get home, or something to that effect. Safest thing to do is just hit "delete".
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That happened to a friend of mine. It messaged her whole address book saying she was stranded in England. Needless to say I didn't send "her" the $2,500.00 being requested.
 
DAND said:
That happened to a friend of mine. It messaged her whole address book saying she was stranded in England. Needless to say I didn't send "her" the $2,500.00 being requested.
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Yeah, I think your friend and mine got scammed by the same person/group. I knew something was up just as soon as I opened my message from my buddy. First of all, this guy does NO world traveling. On top of that, his e-mails usually start out something like, "Hey Bro! What's up?" and this one started, "Well hello there. I hope this e-mail finds you well and rested." :rofl:
 
I got also this e-mail. Shed seem nice. I send her most hurriedly $2,500 for to see us meet at location we talked about soon.
Caitn't wait!
 
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