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More Mates #eqnz

by Whaleoil on February 27, 2011

This morning I blogged on Mates and Not Mates.

I have just received some more information from a tipline source in Sydney about more Aussie mates.

I can report that Dick Smith stores are Mates. They have signs up in their stores asking for donations all over Sydney.

Coffee Club are mates. A a store in Sydney yesterday the owner was all dressed in Red and Black and had signs up asking for donations.

When people realise that my source is from New Zealand they are deluged with offers of support and condolences by even more of our mates from across the Tasman. Plenty of people know what it means to be mates.

Qantas and their subsidiary are still Not Mates.

Yesterday there was this news about Jetstar where they tried to stiff a nurse who helped out in a mid-air emergency. Jetstar are Not Mates and this just confirms it.

So far our Mates are:

Air New Zealand, Coffee Club, Dick Smith, Fonterra, Kiwishops

UPDATE: The two “Kiwi shops” in Perth have set up donation boxes to collect from local ex-pats.

Not our Mates are:

Qantas, Jetstar

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  • jaghut

    I think its great that you’re highlighting those helping out in this crisis. It will be a long road to recovery, and Christchurch will need all the help it can get.

    • genebrarian

      Jetstar are definitely NotMates. Nor even responsible. Our Brazilian student was travelling around NI, but due to fly Wgtn ChCh on Wed. Jetstar wouldn’t allow her to cancel her flight to Chch so she could rebook to fly Wgtn to Dunedin or Queenstown with another airliner (Jetstar don’t do those routes direct). Her ChCh accommodation had cancelled due to the EQ, and all available accom needed for homeless ChCh residents and rescue people.

  • jonno1

    Agree that Qantas are NotMates, but it’s nothing new. I need on-board oxygen due to desaturation at cabin pressure. On a trip from the UK a few years ago missed a connection at LA due to late arrival from Heathrow. Fair enough, happy to take the next flight but guess what? Had to pay again for on-board oxygen at US rates (twice the original rate) and Qantas also refused to refund the original charge. It was only money, but still left a nasty taste. (Sorry, slightly off topic).

  • peterwn

    Looks like Bunnings (and probably WestFarmers Perth WA their owners) are mates. See:
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/4710384/No-price-tampering-as-quake-limits-supplies

    “There’s certainly been no tampering of prices in terms of putting it up knowing that people are going to buy it anyway.
    “None of that will happen at Bunnings, they just wouldn’t allow it and I wouldn’t work for them if they did to be honest,” he said.
    The store had been discounting large orders and selling at cost to emergency services and groups of volunteers.
    “We’re helping where we can,” Mr Heap said.

    There was this Indian dairy owner who was definitely a ‘mate’ on September 4. Hope he, his family and his business are OK this time round.

  • cribble

    Genebrarian’s comment makes DeathStar a fair-go not-a-mate but it’s a bit tough citing a Nov 6 (2010?) Incident as a “not our mates” .
    That incident just confirms that they are arseholes. We probably have a few mates who have acted like arseholes in the past, too.