• Posted 12/19/2024.
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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.

A Keepers Choice inquiry..

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That's just Nics way of twisting what everyone else says.

If he can twist your words to suit him, then he hopes the attention will be taken off of him.
 
Then if you know it all, what would you have done in my position?
 
Nicholas Bonn, Stop trying to worm your way out, there is no escape. Your actions of late have been very poor at best. You are now paying the price for your actions. Every action, has a reaction. You have shown your true colors in this Inquiry. You went and asked that Chuck be banned, then twenty minutes later you made this thread. We are not deceived, nor stupid.
 
nicolai said:
Then if you know it all, what would you have done in my position?
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Kept my mouth shut and passed on the purchase.

WHAT is your point here nic?

It LOOKS like you're trying to make Bill look bad by bringing up, several times, that he made threats against you.

Then you turn around and say you MAY still purchase from him. Are you STUPID? Why?

MOVE ON.
 
I didn't know you asked to have Chuck, dang the name, banned.

THAT makes it even worse for you nic.

Low, very low indeed.
 
I never mention threats or anything else in this thread, other people brought that into this thread. I made an inquiry!!! Please go back and read the original inquiry. Nothing bad in it at all!!!
 
nicolai said:
Sorry but your wrong. I did not post a bad guy thread I made an inquiry, nothing more, because after he threatened my life in the hell forum i thought twice about sending him any money.
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THIS is the first mention I see of a threat.

YOU made it nic.
 
nicolai said:
I never mention threats or anything else in this thread, other people brought that into this thread. I made an inquiry!!! Please go back and read the original inquiry. Nothing bad in it at all!!!
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Now you are telling a bald faced lie!! Look at post #30. That is your post, right Nic?
 
If I thought my life was in danger, I would be on the phone with the police, not posting an inquiry about a potential business deal....my life and that of my family is much more important than any lizard!
 
nicolai said:
Then if you know it all, what would you have done in my position?
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If someone threatened my life on the forums I would have ignored them and gone on with life.
 
Jim O said:
Oh please Nick. You are losing whatever respect some of us may have had left for you.

Take your petty disagreements with Chuck back to Hell where it belongs.
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this is where it was brought in to this thread!!!!!
 
Laura Fopiano said:
If I thought my life was in danger, I would be on the phone with the police, not posting an inquiry about a potential business deal....my life and that of my family is much more important than any lizard!
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We all know this Laura. Nic is trying to hold his head above the water. But telling flat out lies is not going to get it done.

He says:
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I never mention threats or anything else in this thread
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He did not mention it once, but rather twice. Post #30 is one of them as well. He took it from the mod forums and pasted it here. It is where he was asking for the banning of Chuck for the threat.
 
Laura Fopiano said:
If I thought my life was in danger, I would be on the phone with the police, not posting an inquiry about a potential business deal....my life and that of my family is much more important than any lizard!
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You are correct, about family being more important. But business is business.
 
nicolai said:
this is where it was brought in to this thread!!!!![/QUOTE]

You are right, and you are the one that did it!! Your words are now proof of your intencions!! So you were not planning on buying anything from Chuck, correct?
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varnyard said:
We all know this Laura. Nic is trying to hold his head above the water. But telling flat out lies is not going to get it done.
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Did you read my first post bobby boy?? all anyone had to do is say "yes i would deal with him" or " no i wouldnt deal with him" or " tell about any actual business dealings they have had with him. Other people have turned this from an inquiry about a business to something else. Now when people search his business name they get all this instead of reading about what people felt about his business ar how peoples transactions with his business went.
 
varnyard said:
nicolai said:
this is where it was brought in to this thread!!!!![/QUOTE]

You are right, and you are the one that did it!! Your words are now proof of your intencions!! So you were not planning on buying anything from Chuck, correct?
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what are you talking about bobby boy, I quoted Jim O bring the hell matter into this thread not me.
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nicolai said:
Did you read my first post bobby boy?? all anyone had to do is say "yes i would deal with him" or " no i wouldnt deal with him" or " tell about any actual business dealings they have had with him. Other people have turned this from an inquiry about a business to something else. Now when people search his business name they get all this instead of reading about what people felt about his business ar how peoples transactions with his business went.
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Since the only mentions of him in this thread were good, I don't see any problems there for him.

YOU on the other hand......

You got some splaining to do.
 
Wilomn said:
Since the only mentions of him in this thread were good, I don't see any problems there for him.

YOU on the other hand......

You got some splaining to do.
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I think not, since all i did was post an inquiry on the BOI.
 
nicolai said:
I think not, since all i did was post an inquiry on the BOI.
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It's only coincidence that you had only minutes before ask that this member be banned?

Somehow, I find that rather hard to believe.
 
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