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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 The Serpentarium- Lodi, Ca

I would like to point out that if Bill is going along with Robert and his wife then he is no better than they are. So far you guys have painted Bill as a liar, spineless and foolish. Yet you claim to admire him! What the heck do you guys say about those you don't like?

Oh! I remember you insinuate their children are bullies and thieves.
 
KORBIN5895 said:
I would like to point out that if Bill is going along with Robert and his wife then he is no better than they are. So far you guys have painted Bill as a liar, spineless and foolish. Yet you claim to admire him! What the heck do you guys say about those you don't like?

Oh! I remember you insinuate their children are bullies and thieves.
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Unless there's some sort of coercion involved. Can you say there is not?

I can say that there is something very not right about this.
 
Kevin - usually I agree with your posts, but not here.

What If - the closed-door session we are not privy to involved a lawyer (as was suggested) or another form of "if I lose the Serpentarium, you lose any payback I was giving or going to give you"?

Bill is not as bad as Robert. I believe he has been painted into a corner.
 
He complimented them. A lawyer cant coerce you into complimenting anyone. A lawyer could have made him present only certain statements, but not compliments. I doubt it.
 
I think Robert talking Bill into making that post is a lot more likely than Bill transferring the property to Robert without his knowledge.

At what point during the discussion of sales terms did Robert plan to mention that he was in the midst of a 'BK'? The number $228,000 has been thrown around...surely they had a conversation or two before the transfer occured.
 
Robert and I had our own contract and even notarized but when I transferred the property to Robert later on without notifying him, the State found it and he could not do anything about it. I sent up a red flag unintentionally. My mistake!
Bill Gillingham
 
Thanks, Bill. All I am trying to say is that he should have told you prior. If you had a contract notarized and everything, how is it NOT shady of Robert to try to buy the place when he was dealing with a bankruptcy?
 
Yes, that would have been nice but he did tell me after my transfer of property.
 
wbgill said:
Robert and I had our own contract and even notarized but when I transferred the property to Robert later on without notifying him, the State found it and he could not do anything about it. I sent up a red flag unintentionally. My mistake!
Bill Gillingham
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Even if that is all true I still don't see how that was your fault. Had you been made aware of Roberts bankruptcy prior to writing up a contract would you have still gone through with the deal? Would you still have transferred the property to his name? I think (hope) not.

Why are you holding yourself accountable when Robert is the one who withheld some very relevant and important information from you which could have prevented the whole mess if you were made aware of it from the beginning?
 
Well, that's how it all went down. Robert and I both made mistakes, thanks to his mom to buy it from the State before someone else did.
 
theadjustor514 said:
Even if that is all true I still don't see how that was your fault. Had you been made aware of Roberts bankruptcy prior to writing up a contract would you have still gone through with the deal? Would you still have transferred the property to his name? I think (hope) not.

Why are you holding yourself accountable when Robert is the one who withheld some very relevant and important information from you which could have prevented the whole mess if you were made aware of it from the beginning?
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An excellent post. Bill, there are many questions here that need to be answered.

Most importantly, would you have gone forward with this if you knew Coral was in Chapter 7?
 
Bill, I get what you're saying but whats hard to believe is how can you just transfer anything to anyones name without them knowing? Unless the person has given power of attorney to someone due to a physical or mental disability I dont see it..
 
I would have waited until it was over. Robert was in a rush because several other people were very interested in purchasing the Serpentarium and that was the business he really loved and wanted to do.
 
My wife and I went to a legal document assistant who filed out the necessary papers for the transfer and I went over to the County building in Stockton and filed it.
 
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