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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.

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Hey everyone this is Brenda with dragons and tails. I wanted to let everybody know, that I've had my baby, shes now 2 months old and I plan on going back to work in a couple of months time. When I go back to work I'm going to refund the money back to the couple, plus compensation for making then wait so long. I didn't have the extra cash throughout my pregnancy to refund her. I feel extremely bad about this and i apologize to the couple and everyone else, sincerely! As for all the commotion about poorly packaging, this is untrue, I found pictures on my last cell phone with date with the 4 dragons packaged, my father is experienced with this and he took pictures of dragons in the packaging. I take great care of my dragons, feed them variety of salads, crickets daily and dubias. Those who have purchased from me know of this and I know they were defending this. I no longer have any dragons but we are planning on building a separate shed, specially made for the dragons, with stackable enclosures and all, and breeding our own insects. I will take pictures to post of their housing. we plan on future breeding, and when this time comes, if she is interested, I will also send her out four healthy baby dragons plus her full refund. Just wanted to announce myself, and apologize to them and everyone else. I would appreciate if those can hear me out and appreciate the fact that I didnt just dissapear but came back to announce myself and resolve the issue. Thankyou for everyone's time! -Brenda MacSwan
 
So instead of putting all this on the bad guy thread started about you, you just trot out a good guy thread about yourself saying that la, la, la everything is all good now?

And you plan on giving a refund but you haven't done it yet. (And you say it is at least a couple months down the line) And you plan on doing all this other stuff but it too has not been done yet,

It doesn't work that way. It might in fact be worth a shout out for the buyer to announce a full refund has been given to her, but not for you to come on here and just say that sometime in the future you might get around to making good.

Go have yourself a little nap, it must be really hard to stretch and pat yourself on the back that way :rolleyes:
 
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Hey everyone this is Brenda with dragons and tails. I wanted to let everybody know, that I've had my baby, shes now 2 months old and I plan on going back to work in a couple of months time. When I go back to work I'm going to refund the money back to the couple, plus compensation for making then wait so long. I didn't have the extra cash throughout my pregnancy to refund her. I feel extremely bad about this and i apologize to the couple and everyone else, sincerely! As for all the commotion about poorly packaging, this is untrue, I found pictures on my last cell phone with date with the 4 dragons packaged, my father is experienced with this and he took pictures of dragons in the packaging. I take great care of my dragons, feed them variety of salads, crickets daily and dubias. Those who have purchased from me know of this and I know they were defending this. I no longer have any dragons but we are planning on building a separate shed, specially made for the dragons, with stackable enclosures and all, and breeding our own insects. I will take pictures to post of their housing. we plan on future breeding, and when this time comes, if she is interested, I will also send her out four healthy baby dragons plus her full refund. Just wanted to announce myself, and apologize to them and everyone else. I would appreciate if those can hear me out and appreciate the fact that I didnt just dissapear but came back to announce myself and resolve the issue. Thankyou for everyone's time! -Brenda MacSwan
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The appropriate place to post this would have been in the original thread. Maybe a mod can merge them together.

I don't even think its ethical for someone to post a good guy about themselves! I thought Good guy posts were for people to tell others about their transactions, not about their businesses.

Lucille is right on the dot with her entire post. Coming and posting a new post on the BOI is just a butt-pat for you. If you were serious you could have just called or PM'd your customers to let them know personally.
 
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Hey everyone this is Brenda with dragons and tails. I wanted to let everybody know, that I've had my baby, shes now 2 months old and I plan on going back to work in a couple of months time. When I go back to work I'm going to refund the money back to the couple, plus compensation for making then wait so long. I didn't have the extra cash throughout my pregnancy to refund her. I feel extremely bad about this and i apologize to the couple and everyone else, sincerely! As for all the commotion about poorly packaging, this is untrue, I found pictures on my last cell phone with date with the 4 dragons packaged, my father is experienced with this and he took pictures of dragons in the packaging. I take great care of my dragons, feed them variety of salads, crickets daily and dubias. Those who have purchased from me know of this and I know they were defending this. I no longer have any dragons but we are planning on building a separate shed, specially made for the dragons, with stackable enclosures and all, and breeding our own insects. I will take pictures to post of their housing. we plan on future breeding, and when this time comes, if she is interested, I will also send her out four healthy baby dragons plus her full refund. Just wanted to announce myself, and apologize to them and everyone else. I would appreciate if those can hear me out and appreciate the fact that I didnt just dissapear but came back to announce myself and resolve the issue. Thankyou for everyone's time! -Brenda MacSwan
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Hum, you wrote a nice g.g. thread about yourself. :rolleyes: You should try squaring this problem away with your customers instead of patting yourself on your back for a idea. That you should have resolved along time ago... Spend more time with your kid and less time with this hobby. It May be the best route for you and this hobby.

Lucille, right on the head as usual!
 
Post your reply in the original thread, please. We're all happy that you think you're doing good business; but there's no reason to post a thread in your own name to say you are going to fix things with somebody that disagreed. Besides, doing it this way doesn't help anybody reading the other thread...those people will think you never stepped up and took care of things.
 
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