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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.

Need Info About Chris Guida

yasin

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Hello,

I agreed to buy a het pied pair from Chris Guida (CMG Reptikes). We agreed on 6 equal payments of 300$ for the snakes and I started making payments through paypal. I made the first payment on Apr. 9, 2004 and the last payment on Sep. 13, 2004.

He was supposed to send the animals in September but he didn't. He always told me that he is gonna send the animals "next week" but that "next week" never came.

Later on I saw all the posts about him here but still tried to deal with him. However he stopped replying my e-mails to me about a month ago.

I had a car accident and I have a lot of hospital bills to pay also I am temporarily disabled because of this and I can not work. I need this money :(
I did nothing bad to lose my hard-earned money but to trust a person :(

Paypal doesn't help me and I can not think any other way. What should I do?

Please help me...

Thank you
Yasin
 
yasin said:
Paypal doesn't help me and I can not think any other way. What should I do?Yasin
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It sounds like you have had a series of unfortunate events occur, and hope the link to this thread helps. Read the bottom post of mine and the steps that I took to recover my money.

http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?p=208499&highlight=Muth#post208499

Hope things get better for you.

Jeff & Starr
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Thank you very much.

I will try anything possible cos I need the money pretty bad...

By the way I guess I need to write my full name for my post to stay.

M.Yasin Cakmak
 
I agree on the unfortunate issues. The only thought I have would be how you set up your paypal. You may still have time to recover some/all payments IF you set it up with a creditcard.

Best of luck to you and I'm glad you found this place, now you can check folks out BEFORE you send them your loot.
 
You could try filing a complaint with paypal to lock his account. That way he won't be able to use his account until the money is refunded.

Diana Mason
 
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