digi2124 wrote:
woscafrench wrote:
Haven't been on this forum or neopets for about a year, no-one'll remember me, they might remember my blinking pile of dung avatar though...
Yeah, there is a point to all this. I am currently doing work experience for a journalist who publishes lists of the wealth of rich Britons. One of the many pieces of paper work that I had to sort through was an email from a certain Adam Powell, or should I say Borovan?
He was wanting to know whether his fortune was high enough for him to be included in a list and I can proudly tell you that in 2001 his shares in Neopets were worth about £3.4 million, that is $5.6 million, if he kept them, I wonder how much that would be now with the increasing size of the site?
He does still work for neopets right? I'm not just rambling on here I hope...
I heard from a friend that he isn't in fact working for neopets anymore, he just retains administrative rights. He should have kept his shares. He would have stopped Neopets from going into the ground.
Examples of curruption:
-Neopets portal: Pay for it and you get better random events
-Random freezing
-Favorism
I can't think of any more that are on the top of my mind, but i'm sure they're there.
He is still listed as Founder, Donna is listed as Co-Founder. They do both post occasionally on the site as well as forums and are the faces of Neopets, like with the upcoming mall tour. So I think he does still work for the company. He just doesn't (and hasn't for quite some time) own it.
Keeping his shares - well who knows whether he still does or not unless he personally tells you, I don't think would have stopped anything unless he held (or holds) the majority of stock. I do think things have started snowballing out of control -- an avalanche may be coming!
What seem to be big problem areas:
the Portal, toolbar, email service, ISP (and the evil service they chose to team with);
glophone;
unfair freezings;
lack of customer support (not their fault - just not enough staff);
constant glitches/lost np & items/downtime/lag (again, I think due to not enough staff);
I have to agree with favoritism - I've seen it in action;
lack of communication between TNT and members when something happens (thinking great tp glitch, unequip glitch, big security glitch);
a truly vague and incomplete T&C (not even support can decipher it with complete confidence)
Whatever, it looks like he's done rather well for himself. I hope Donna has been able to do the same! And welcome back! Keep us updated on interesting things like this
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And it would take owning ALOT more than one or two shares to even be invited to a shareholder meeting, let alone be recognized and listened to.
