• 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.
  • 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.

How to become a paying member of FaunaClassifieds (revised edition)

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Since changing over to the new XenForo platform, obviously a lot of things have changed. Paying for the elevated levels of membership is just one of the changes. So I will detail how to accomplish that task right here in this thread.

First off, find your member login name in the upper right hand corner of the page while on this site.

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Click on your member login name.

That will present you with a small page showing several optional clickable links. One of which will be "Account Upgrades".

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Click on that option.

That will then take you to a page showing all of the options available to upgrade your account on FaunaClassifieds. This includes the Paid Memberships as well as various forum sponsorships that are available. Click on the button that says "Purchase". As of the current time, only PayPal is being accepted as payment. I can accept money orders or checks, but only for the 2 upper level memberships of $100 or $250 per year. I will be looking into adding other optional payment vehicles that this XenForo platform may offer, but that will not happen immediately.

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Clicking on any one of the Purchase buttons will take you to your external PayPal account, where you can log in with PayPal and make payment.

Please ignore that section that shows $1,000,000.00 per day. At the time there was no facility to be able to segregate these options into logical categories so I had to fudge things to make it work. But if anyone REALLY wants to pay me that much money per day for nothing, well, no argument out of me. Have at it. :)
 
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