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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.

Info Lena Nicole Mims aka Laura Nicole Mims (Italianlnm)

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Well I guess let me start this thread off by saying this is an info thread and only a info on Laura Nicole Mims aka Lena Nicole. This is so people who want information on her can get it before doing business transactions with her. She is well known on FC in Fauna Chat as Italianlnm. She was friends to a lot of people on FC and a lot of people trusted her with valuable personal information as if she was a close friend. She recently announced to all her close online friend from fauna that she was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl. I know all this sounds like I’m babbling but I promise when you read further, you will understand where I am going with all the information I am providing. Heath and Lena where in an online relationship for some time and most everyone that came into the chat on a regular basis knew this. I guess after the break up Heath just felt a little uneasy about who lena was…considering he never once seen pictures of Lena that where just quick snap shots or anything. Just the pictures she would post on her facebook account which can be seen here (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000731312557&ref=ts).

A few days ago Heath Norris (Heathn) found a picture of “Lena” on a teen networking site called golivewire.com by googling her screen name (Italianlnm). On this site she had just had her third child with husband Zac in decemeber of 2009 (keep in mind she is supposedly pregnant with twins and these are her first children on facebook) and posted pictures of a completely different couple and their child from the person we know and loved on facebook. When Heath contacted her on this she closed the account on golivewire.com but the posts and pictures remained…they can be seen here http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-ysintpp-support-a.html You have to scroll down the page but you will see where Italianlnm posted the pictures and then again posted saying this was her third child. The other two children where outside playing with daddy in the leaves.

This incident is what set me into motion when I found all this out. I googled her screenname as I stated before, and found her on a forum called Tortoiseforum.org on here lena posted a lot. On this forum she had just had her first child in September of this year (9/2010) the thread can be found here (http://tortoiseforum.org/Thread-Introducing--18727) but in order to view it you must join. So I saved the pictures she used and also did screenshots of the page which can be found here - (http://s224.photobucket.com/albums/dd173/OohDeeRa/lena/) Once again she posted pictures…of a completely different couple and their child. So at this point I realized something was wrong, really wrong. Why was this person who I considered a very dear friend posting saying she had three kids and then on another site a new baby lil girl and she didn’t look anything like the person I knew her as whom was suppost to be pregnant with twins. So I kept digging and searching and then I stumbled across something I hadn’t noticed before.

On “lena’s” facebook page I seen a watermark on a picture of a baby donkey named MeeHaa that said AM Photography. I found this person on facebook, Alicia Matthews, and searched her friends for “Laura”. I found this person… http://www.facebook.com/Laura.Nicole.M?ref=nf the interest alone told me it was her (reptiles, tortoises, horseback riding, zac) . The real Lena that is, but her name is Laura Nicole Mims. I searched her friends and suddenly I seen something that actually made me sick to my stomach…this- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=565986974&ref=nf

All this time the person I thought was Lena Nicole was actually, no one, she was a made up person. Laura Nicole Mims has been stealing Morgan McLveen’s pictures and using them as her own on “Lena’s” facebook page. Everything about this girl has been a lie, but not only on here but on every other site she is a part of. I just wanted everyone to know the truth because we deserve to know. I also have sent a link to Lena on FC and her Facebook and I also am informing Morgan so she knows that Laura Nicole Mims is using her pictures. Maybe Lena can explain her-self on what the :censored: is going on, but I am just baffled. If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask.
 
 
I called this months ago when I knew she didn't breed ball python morphs and refused to show pictures of her holding them. I knew something wasn't right. Shady
 
DeeRa said:
i agree dand...i am very upset and at a lost for words..
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I am not at a loss for words but I tend to take my time before I post (I like to get my facts straight before I post - ** in no way am I saying you have posted before getting your facts straight **). I certainly have a number of words just ready and waiting to be heard loud and clear.
 
She should be up soon to take care of her 3 kids , so we can hear a response.
 
she is reading this thread now, hopefully lena will come foward and tell us what is going on...
 
DeeRa said:
she is reading this thread now, hopefully lena will come foward and tell us what is going on...
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It seems like she has nothing to say publicly. She's also changed her default photo on her real facebook, Laura Nicole Mims. I'm very disappointed and shocked... I'm sure I speak for a few others.
 
a pm has been sent to Deidra. She can print screen it into this thread.
 
I have no words to say just how thoroughly disgusted and sickened i am at reading this about her:( She played all of her "friends", me included, and obviously she has no problems doing it, and no problem talking trash about others on FB.
 
I agree Crissbella , what Loser she is . Where is the fauna patrol with their pitchforks? , seems when one of their friends gets caught , all of a sudden they have forgotten how to speak.
 
This is what Laura wrote me.

Private Message: BOI
09-25-2010, 06:50 AM
Italianlnm
Loving Life





Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Town
Posts: 43
Name : Laura Mims

Trader Rating: (0) BOI

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I would like to say this on here, but you can post it, if you want.

First and Foremost, the facebook you posted for Laura Nicole Mims is not me. I used her name, because I knew this would eventually be found out and I didn't want it to be my name that was posted. I used her info/likes, and the other persons pictures.

I would also like to say to everyone in fauna that I am sorry for this confusion, and that I know I have a problem. I am also getting help, as it is needed, for my issues. I am actually not a bad person, but I have a psychological problem.

I have a problem where I am not happy with my life and who I am so I try to be other people and their lives. The people that I want to be. Or rather.. the lives that I wish mine were like. A nice family. Knowing their parents. A future. Etc.

I didn't want to post on the actual thread but you can screen-pic this into the thread if you wish.

If anyone else wants to speak with me personally with out bashing, then they can pm me. I am sure I will be banned from this site, and I am not sure what that involves.. So I doubt that I will be able to respond to many pms before I get banned.

again, sorry.
 
Laura said:
First and Foremost, the facebook you posted for Laura Nicole Mims is not me. I used her name, because I knew this would eventually be found out and I didn't want it to be my name that was posted. I used her info/likes, and the other persons pictures.
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Hard to believe since "her" profile photo changed rather quickly, especially at such an odd hour in the day.
 
It really isn't me, Allee. I do have a facebook, but I will not be sharing it on here because I have seen what happens. IE, the messages.

That could have been coincidental, and you never really know. But it is not me. It wouldn't make sense to use my real name if I knew I was going to get caught. I redid all aspects of my life.

Again, I am sorry Fauna.
 
Sorry is just not good enough Laura. I will tell you that i'm not happy with my life, but there is no way in hell i would do what you did, just to make myself feel better. Honesty goes a long way in this hobby, and in life, but you have just destroyed any chance of being respected and liked.

I honestly hope you can get the help you so need right now, because it is obvious you do need it. It also might have helped just a teeny bit to have addressed these issues directly, instead of pm'ing another member, imo.
 
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