• 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.

Bad Guy I was SCAMMED by Joe Oswald

Joe,

If you want to talk like adults on the phone, I’m fine with it. Like you I’m sure, I want this to be over. Take a day if you want. Let’s throttle down. I can call PayPal today to see how to end this as fast as possible. I will let them know you are refunding, I believe you and I both have shipping insurance for this. I will call them later.
 
Joe,

I just got off the phone with PayPal.
I was advised NOT to return the snake unless I have a refund first or the dispute is final. Simply because the mistake caused mistrust from the start and too many people (on my end of these disputes) get cheated by the seller when they return the snake without buyer protection.

I don’t have buyer protection until they give me the green light.
 
Yeah, that's not happening. I'm not protected at all if you return a dead snake so I'll go ahead and give them a call as well.
 
It is still a matter of trust. What happens if the receiver claims the animal was dead on arrival, or if it was a different animal than was supposed to be sent (that would be an irony). PayPal retrieves its $$ and the buyer is left with nada.
 
And if this arrangement is true, it seems odd that Charles has not received notification via PayPal yet.
 
You know this for a fact? Doesn't look like he's been back online since then to me. I don't see what you're even involving yourself. PayPal is handling it so we are BOTH protected. They are going to send him the refund and then when I receive the animal they will take the refund from my PayPal.
 
Guess you just got on but have you checked it? I got the email immediately after getting off the phone with them.
 
GotBoas said:
Once I receive the details from PayPal, I will update this thread accordingly.
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You might think about calling PayPal to verify any email purportedly sent by them.
 
Email

This is what I got from them but it doesn't say exactly what she had said. She actually laughed about sending the refund before receiving the item back but what I said in my last post is what she said would happen.
 

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Do you read the whole post, or do you just jump to where you can troll?

This is what I got from them but it doesn't say exactly what she had said.

but what I said in my last post is what she said would happen.
 
ozzie_1978 said:
Yup Yup... That's on PayPal, not me.. and once again, none of your business... ;)
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There is no proof she said that, I don't believe she did. Why don't you call her back and ask for it in writing...
 
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