• 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.
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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 John Perkins aka geckoman2

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John!!!!!!!!

Well what can we say, he has some serious issues going on and I don't see why he is still on this site. He has been banned many times.

I would like for him to explain just WHY he gave me a BAD negative feedback rating today when he never had any deals or transactions with me???

I did not trade with him and he didn't but anything from me so how can he be allowed to leave me any rating at all?

This was his comment "very confused woman needs help"

I would like to know if anything can be done about this?

He IS a bad guy through and through and I for one have had enough!


Amanda
 
So what what your business dealing with him, since you put this on the BOI? Or are you just complaining out loud?

A PM to one of the mods probably would have been sufficient.
 
Humm no, sorry but I think people needs to know just how is he and what he is going around doing. I just seen another post where he did it to alot of others..

I guess he got coins so he hit everyone he didn't like today! With a bad trader rating, but how can it be allowed, when he has not done any business with them?
 
Amanda, I know that DAND has already posted the screenshot in several other threads, but as per BOI rules you need to post additional evidence of the wrong-doing. If you can please take a screenshot from your own computer and post it here, that would be appreciated. To take a screenshot, all you have to do is hit the "print screen" button above your delete key, then right click > paste or ctrl-v inside of a word processor or image editing software to transfer the screenshot to a savable format.

Hopefully your screenshot will show less open windows than DAND! Holy cow, I've never seen so many scrunched icons on a toolbar in my life, haha!
 
Yeah I didn't see all the other treads drug up on him and didn't know Dand had screen shots but I'll get one of my own and post it..
 
snowgyre said:
Amanda, I know that DAND has already posted the screenshot in several other threads, but as per BOI rules you need to post additional evidence of the wrong-doing. ...... QUOTE]


Just to point out, there is NO rule stating you must post evidence on the BOI. If you want people to believe you, in general, you should post evidence, but just to clear it up, you do not HAVE to post evidence to post on the BOI.
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Here is a screen shot of what he left me for no reason. I have NOT done business with him so he had no right leaving me a rating at all..

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Theresa, thank you for clearing that up. I was under the impression that it was a rule because it is so frequently called for by members here. But yes, rule or not, it's a good idea to back up your story.

Shadera, We already know from other threads that John Perkins has given negative trader ratings to a number of people who had no trades or sales with him so this thread is rather redundant, but Amanda seems to have spotted her own negative trader rating before examining the contents of the BOI... easy mistake. As a potential customer I want to know if a seller leaves fraudulent feedback, since I do not need someone who is hot-headed and immature hurting my own reputation if a sale goes bad for whatever reason.
 
snowgyre said:
Hopefully your screenshot will show less open windows than DAND! Holy cow, I've never seen so many scrunched icons on a toolbar in my life, haha!
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Yeah, I do have a lot of irons in the fire (hence the million open windows, tabs, folders and documents) and having to deal with the childish crap of geckoman2 leaving me and others negative trader rating just adds to my never ending list of things to keep up with. I guess it's a good thing I can multitask. Back to juggling I go...... :bolt01:
 
Just wanted to add that John has been banned and thanks to Rich for deleting the false trader rating he gave me. And I'm sure he removed it from the other 5-6 people as well.
 
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