Wednesday, June 14, 2017 4:19 am

AAAmazing: Alan Grace’s ‘First’ post (always at the top)

BlogEpitaphMy name is Alan Grace. I live in Titirangi (Auckland, New Zealand). Titirangi is known for its bush, beaches, and Titirangi village.

Presently I am just trying out WordPress.
This is my first post since I last tried WordPress years ago.

The views expressed in this blog are my own. They are my personal opinions.
I believe my opinions are correct at the time of writing.

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If you want to see my most recent post, just keep reading!

You may like to see All posts in chronological order (oldest to newest).

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Friday, August 25, 2017 8:35 am

The Last Post

I have now documented some of the evidence I have regarding Neighbourly.

It is time for you to look at the evidence yourself and come to your own conclusions.

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Neighbourly’s hard-line approach suggests anything may be on the cards.
Whaddya think?

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Friday, August 18, 2017 5:01 pm

[Final DRAFT] Open letter to the CEO of Fairfax Media; Comments please :)

Alan Grace
21 August 2017

Open letter to:     The CEO of Fairfax Media

 

Dear Sir

Concerns about Neighbourly

[Final DRAFT: Please email me any changes you think may make improve this letter]

View the pdf version of this open letter. Please read the disclaimer.

I understand that Fairfax Media has at least a 45% shareholding in Neighbourly.

I further understand (or at least hope) that Fairfax may be unaware of the members’ concerns throughout the country.

I have written this letter under my name alone to prevent Neighbourly from kicking out more members.

I am writing this letter to make you aware of Neighbourly members’ concerns regarding:

  • Ads on the Neighbourly Noticeboard: Recently even a single business ad on the Noticeboard means no member posts can be seen
  • The sacking of Leads and kicking members out
  • The lack of interest of the Neighbourly Team in resolving issues/ bugs on Neighbourly
  • The hard-line approach of the Neighbourly Team
  • The number of members according to the Neighbourly Team being considerably more than that recorded on the site (over 15% more apparently)

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Friday, August 18, 2017 7:28 am

Hyperinflation of membership numbers: Why add GST to the number of members?

At the end of November last year, overnight the Neighbourly Team (NT) appears to have added 300 ghost members to the number of Titirangi members.

The same was done throughout the county on the same date (circa 25/26 November 2016).

Was something like 15% added to the actual number of members (address-verified; at least with an “L” plate) and rounded up to the nearest 100 for bigger suburbs?

Adding the equivalent to GST to the actual number of members does not seem right to me. What do you think?

The actual number of address-verified members at the end of June 2017 in Titirangi (and perhaps the whole of New Zealand) was still less than the actual number of members claimed at the end of November last year 😦

Was this done just to make a KPI (Key Performance Indicator) look better?

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Thursday, August 17, 2017 1:28 pm

Neighbourly Leads: Why won’t NT listen to their feedback? Why are NT sacking Leads?

The above questions are of course rhetorical.

The Neighbourly team (NT) never had any intention of listening to what the Leads (or members) had to say. Sadly NT has not shown any interest in fixing the bugs (they probably regard them as features) that they have been aware about for years 😦 Active members are getting tired of Oops and Woah (sic) messages. They are tired of having to work around the issues.

A number of Leads have donated their valuable time to help improve the site only to be sacked or give up in frustration.

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