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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.

LIARS & THIEVES: Troy and Kellie Wikel (aka exotics2aquatics, Swift, Whiteboro, etc.)

naidraug ohopak said:
Any update on these two?

I believe they are now doing similar things in Hawaii.
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They came and left Hawaii scammed several people. But I thwarted their Go Fund Mes they were trying to pull off. I came across these crooks when they sold a junk Jeep to a single mom I knew. Googled them and found they were trolls of the worst kind.
I had posted a lot of info about that here last year, don't see their Hawaii reports on here by other people.
Last info was they were going to grandma's in Arizona for christmas when they couldn't pull off their "Escape from the lava flow scam" and their covers were pulled here on her facebook page and on other blogs and groups.
They're still loose and running.
 
punapetah said:
They came and left Hawaii scammed several people. But I thwarted their Go Fund Mes they were trying to pull off. I came across these crooks when they sold a junk Jeep to a single mom I knew. Googled them and found they were trolls of the worst kind.
I had posted a lot of info about that here last year, don't see their Hawaii reports on here by other people.
Last info was they were going to grandma's in Arizona for christmas when they couldn't pull off their "Escape from the lava flow scam" and their covers were pulled here on her facebook page and on other blogs and groups.
They're still loose and running.
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We notified every one we could in Aug 2014. No one paid attention to us here.

They caused a very nice young man to lose his home inherited from his recently deceased mom (Ainaloa).

I did hear they hightailed it to AZ last fall. In an odd coincidence, a FOC worked with Kellie Wikel's mother a few years ago.

Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

LAPD was contacted about Troy Wikel intimating that he was LAPD.

But Kapoho NW thought Wike's were just da bomb! THE BIVN's spot was because NW took Kellie around to all the homes in Kapoho. Friends got ostracized for letting people know about Kellie. Can u believe it!!!!

Just saw the sex offender brother who was in Nanawale is now none-compliant with the State. (moved maybe and didnt notifiy??)
 
Besides ripping off landlords, and setting up fraudulent GoFundMe site (which I got shut down) she had her fake photography business, she is NOT a photographer but the local people she ripped off didn't know any better. She really likes using FB to do her crimes.
Her "Save us from the lava" GoFundMe I got shut down too. But I'm sure they ripped someone off to pay for 5-6 airfares back to the mainland. But as more people get hip to their ways and if they find this collection, eventually they will burn the wrong person.
IF it were me they burned, they wouldn't have made it off the island without jumping bail.
 
punapetah said:
Besides ripping off landlords, and setting up fraudulent GoFundMe site (which I got shut down) she had her fake photography business, she is NOT a photographer but the local people she ripped off didn't know any better. She really likes using FB to do her crimes.
Her "Save us from the lava" GoFundMe I got shut down too. But I'm sure they ripped someone off to pay for 5-6 airfares back to the mainland. But as more people get hip to their ways and if they find this collection, eventually they will burn the wrong person.
IF it were me they burned, they wouldn't have made it off the island without jumping bail.
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She is still friends with a number of people from Big Island on her Kellie Swift FB page including Bobbie Jean Leithead-Todd, Kevin Dayton, Sean King, Smiley Burrows, and Alan Mc Narie that I can see. I am really surprised especially to see the names of BJ and Kevin on that list.

She is also still FB friends with Betty Oberman the so called Kapoho NW big cheese.

Are we the only ones who are seeing what a shitz she is?
 
Are we the only ones who are seeing what a shitz she is?[/QUOTE]

yea most those people barely use FB, let along know how to search the web.
 
A friend of ours send the links to FL felony stuff to the Greg Braun (prez of VHCA) and Richard Shea Board member and unofficial legal eagle of VHCA and they just blamed - seriously blamed - my friend for bringing it up to them.

Are these people just blind or is it the way it has always been.... she got befriended by someone in Kapoho NW and that person will never acknowledge that it was a poor choice.

Grrrrrr! Just posting today is pissing me off about Kellie Swift Wikel. Good luck with keeping the public informed. Maybe someone in AZ will google her and this will all come up! and they can benefit from our experiences.
 
From the above link - and so search engines will find it:

The company has 3 principals on record. The principals are Kellie Swift from Biloxi ME, Larry E Wikel from Biloxi MS, and Troy S Wikel from Biloxi MS.

TK AMUSEMENTS LLC
191 Acacia Ave
Biloxi, MS 39530

https://www.facebook.com/kellie.swift
 
Changed name from Wikel to Moody

Kellie swift aka Wikel aka Moody now.

I dont think she knows we keep an eye on her~:samurai_01:
 
naidraug ohopak said:
Kellie swift aka Wikel aka Moody now.

I dont think she knows we keep an eye on her~:samurai_01:
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There are a lot of people with that name. Is there a web site or link that indicates she now goes by Moody?
 
I know it’s been a number of years since the last post on this thread but does anyone have any updates on these two? More specifically Troy?
 
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