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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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Why is it that people who work retail, can not get it through their head, that us Last minutes shoppers, are the ones who give you work so you can have money for Christmas? (ok, or to catch up on bills you didn't pay so you could buy gifts)..

My husband was out of work, so we have been playing catch up with EVERYTHING... the way we budgeted, we couldn't really spend until this week, so last week we took $10 and put stuff on layaway. Then all we have to do is pick it up a day or two before Christmas when his pay hit. Im standing in line, and one of the workers standing by the layaway window (NOT in a back room) is voicing his opinion on all these "stupid" last minute shoppers who make him SOOOO miserable.

Wow... I don't know why I was hurt at this. I mean, if it wasn't for these last minute shoppers, who filled Kmart tonight, causing them to even NEED his bogus butt to come to work, then he would be sitting at home because they were over staffed. My apologies to the lazy cart pusher who made sure everyone heard what he said.

I use to work retail, and I get it. Its not easy during this time of year. People are miserable, they are in a rush, and they have no tolerance for error. Sometimes the best thing to do is make eye contact and smile.. The customer could have been caught in this horrible traffic, and might just need the extra kindness to take the edge off. Not some jackwagon making them feel worse. Isnt it enough that the lines are at the least a 1 hour wait for layaway? Or how about when you put stuff on layaway and they lose half of the items? (that's always fun).. :(

*smh* I just cant wait for this to be over... I am usually a pretty up beat person, but stuff like this really gets to me. I wont even go in a Walmart during Christmas "rush"... you can forget it.
 
I agree, what he said was mean and inappropriate.
Perhaps something happened to him and he too might need some extra kindness.
The reason, for the season.
I'm sorry you have had all these aggravations and that your DH was out of work. That's a lot of stress.
I hope the new year brings you peace and prosperity.
 
Very possible... and because he was not there by the time I was done, I took my cart back up when I was done.. he wouldn't have had to go pull it from the back of the parking lot in the rain. Might not make much of a difference, but well.. its about all I could do as a gesture.

As far as him being out of work, its life, and we expect the unexpected.. :) It is what it is.. yes it makes things a bit more difficult, but things came through.. and I had enough to put a dep on my Crested.. which changed things up for me tonight.. :D :D Im so much happier now..

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and Happy and safe New Year.. lets hope its much better then this last.. :)




Lucille said:
I agree, what he said was mean and inappropriate.
Perhaps something happened to him and he too might need some extra kindness.
The reason, for the season.
I'm sorry you have had all these aggravations and that your DH was out of work. That's a lot of stress.
I hope the new year brings you peace and prosperity.
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Tiss the season lisa.:eek:
I agree there is definitely some ppl worken in retail that clearly dont belong there. Three simple things to have when working with the public.
1. Communication skills
2. Small sense of humor
3. COMMON SENSE
Have a great holiday everyone!! Merry Christmas
 
That works both ways though. My wife works retail and some of the crap she puts up with is nothing short of amazing. Reason I never worked retail. Guaranteed someone would get throat punched.
 
One of the best rejoinders I've ever heard to a snotty "service" professional, and one I long to have the balls to use, comes from the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly - "Get a job YOU LIKE!!!!" :thumbsup:
 
JColt said:
That works both ways though. My wife works retail and some of the crap she puts up with is nothing short of amazing. Reason I never worked retail. Guaranteed someone would get throat punched.
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YES! I've worked retail during the holidays. And it made me totally HATE people. People are bitchier to retail workers during the holidays, (I have no clue why, but they are! I've seen it first-hand.) It's not the retail workers fault if lines are slow (the computers bog down because of so much activity and a lot of things are going on all at once that during normal times wouldn't cause such a stink) and because those lines are slow it makes customers even bitchier, and after having so many bitchy customers, it makes retail workers bitchy too. I understand that being a retail worker entails that you take a lot of flack, but it doesn't mean that all customers can unleash all their crap on the retail workers to deal with. So if a retail worker gets bitchy during the holidays, then maybe that has something to do with customers (and their job in general during that time.)

While he shouldn't have verbalized what he was thinking (especially with customers there,) he did have a right to do so. And if you think he's just being miserable, then that's your right. I'm going to guess it was a culmination of the holidays, work stress and being unloaded on by customers. Still he should have just kept his mouth shut. (Though I know I've made the stink eye enough times that me keeping my mouth shut probably wouldn't have helped either. lol)

And I will say that I've been pretty grumpy this holiday season, but I make damn sure I don't unload on the retail worker (or other shoppers; unless they're rude, then I'm just snarky.) What goes on in my little world is my own and no one needs to know about my crap but me. But after so much crap I do have a hard time going out of my way to be "kind" to people. So I'd rather not say anything and just be done and gone when I'm out. If people take that as being rude, then so be it. But it's better than me ACTUALLY being rude.
 
Helenthereef said:
One of the best rejoinders I've ever heard to a snotty "service" professional, and one I long to have the balls to use, comes from the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly - "Get a job YOU LIKE!!!!" :thumbsup:
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I love Billy. He's hilarious. But if I got a job I actually liked doing; I wouldn't get paid. lol
 
I can add nothing except love Billy Connolly, as a comedian and musician :)

Oh, and bah humbug :)
 
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