• 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.
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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 Either Tim Koppenhofer is a thief or Bob Martin is!

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The is the last of the debts that I am owed and since my last BOI post brought about a positive resolution hopefully this will too!

In May of 2008, I sold Bob Martin roughly $5,000 worth of adult animals. This included my adult male Salmontine, adult female albino and a few other animals. Bob paid me a bit here and there but within a few months still had a balance of $1700. Because Bob was local and also a police officer, I was not worried. Well, things dragged out for 2.5 years and the $1700 is still owed!

I contacted him this past fall demanding the money and was then informed that a few months after buying them from me, Bob consigned them to Tim Koppenhofer of Special K Reptiles. Bob informed me that Tim had basically stiffed him for the money.

I have copied the emails from me to Bob which also includes a response from Tim agreeing to the debt and stating that he would be paying asap. I don't care who pays this but it needs paid immediately. I realize ultimately my deal is with Bob and I will take him to small claims as he lives 10 minutes from me. But, if Tim Koppenhofer would honor his obligations OR come on here and confirm with proof that he paid Bob, then we will at least have some clarification as to where the money is at.

Here are the emails:

Bob,

I know I've past your due date but I am still working on this and this is the communication I received from Tim today.

Officer Bob Martin
University of Illinois Police Department

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From: Tim Koppenhofer [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:00 AM
To: Martin, Robert Keevin
Subject: RE: boas

Hey Bob i am sorry I either did not receive the e-mail or I just missed it- Sorry!

i am still waiting for the insurance payout from my daughters insurance! Her funeral expenses have put me back a whole lot! As soon as I receive funds I will send you the balance!

If I get lucky and sell something before I will try to send you something

Thanks & Merry Christmas
Tim

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:28:35 -0600
> Subject: boas
>
> Tim,
>
> Haven't heard back from you regarding my email below. Please advise.
>
> Officer Bob Martin
> University of Illinois Police Department
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Martin, Robert Keevin
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: boas
>
> Tim,
>
> I need to close out the account I have with Bob Woodard regarding the snakes I've given you. At this point $1700 remains to be paid. I'm not sure what the status is on the snakes, ie. what's been sold, what's being used as we haven't talked much in the year since you took them nor have I been keeping tabs on what's gone across kingsnake.com as I've been out of snakes since then. In any case get back to me with some sort of time line on paying this off please.
>
> Officer Bob Martin
> University of Illinois Police Department
>
 
Let me also add that as of the last correspondence from Bob Martin (just a week ago) was that Tim has ignored all of Bob's emails requesting payment.
 
It would also appear from reading Tim's response that he sold the animals and used the money for other expenses. While I can't comprehend losing a child, it was also not his money that was being used. Tough times = tough decisions....I understand but it's been a year and he's obviously making other transactions. It's time to wrap this one up!
 
Well Bob owes you the money plain and simple his debt with you should be settled no matter what.
 
Bob,
I'm going to have to ask you to redo this with one person named in the title.
Since your transaction was with Bob Martin, that would seem to be the appropriate choice.
You can still ask Tim to respond, about his part in things...but consider which one of them is the focus when selecting the new title.

I've locked this thread, and will leave it in place to allow you to copy/paste into a new one.
Hope you get everything sorted out, and your money paid in short order.
 
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