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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.

Nigeria, the land of the scams

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If anybody watched the Dr. Phil's Show recently ( in as much as i don't normally do ) , he had the very subject on the scams coming from Nigeria but the axis was on these dating sites that are fleecing our hopeful dating connections in the USA and other countries. But this doesn't just stop at the dating thing as it is bleeding into other. We have seen it hit the animal sites. We have seen it on the " get rich " scheme. There are vivid class rooms and a tele-marketing rooms filled with these scammers reading from a script. There is false photos of people contending to be someone else or themselves. There is identity theft. There is down right theft of money transactions in the forum of money orders no good but not known at the time by the un-suspected. There is a twist of to much money sent and one needs to send back the extra after cashing in or depositing. There is almost a " cartel " ( maybe there is in fact a cartel ) of these scams and life can be even threaten. Unfortunately as explained, these scams are not going away since they thrive on the un-suspected and they get their meet hooks in.
Unfortunately I know know one individual that got fleeced by a Nigeria scam on a dating site. She let her heart be her guide and paid out thousands of dollars before she was notified of the scam by a investigating firm. Ya say it couldn't happen to you ? She has a PHD. The scammers are also very intelligent and many hold degrees in something as well. Or they are attending college while scamming. It IS NOT going to stop as the land of Nigeria is still of the old west scenario and lawlessness is the order and while all crimes are committed imaginable, the scam thing is not a priority. Or could it be political ?
 
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