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What companies will you never give another dollar to?

What happened that put them on your blacklist?

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[–] Poayjay@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There’s so many. Oreo changed their cream filling and you can see they only fill the rows by like 2/3 now Ebay (I honestly don’t know anyone who hasn’t had problems on the platform how are they still in business?) When I was a teen, my manager at dominoes fired me after I caught him stealing my tips. I wont even eat free dominoes

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[–] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Easyjet. They sent us an update in their app saying they delayed our flight a few hours due to ill pilot. We were waiting near the gate (nearest cafe) but not quite within view, and no flight boards nearby. They decided not to delay after all but did not send an update to the app, and nothing over loudspeakers. My paranoia got the better of me so i wandered down to the gate around the original time of flight to take a look. When I saw they were boarding after all i called the family down, but we had missed it by a minute or so. They would not let us board. They preferred to delay the flight while they unloaded our baggage. We had to pay for and book with another airline to arrive at our hotel at midnight losing a day of our Greek Island holiday. When we complained to their service desk, they refused to refund us, and said "we DO suggest you always keep up to date by watching the flight boards". There was a giant sign by their desk that literally said "download our app to keep up to date on your flights". I will never give those fucks another dollar, and I tell this story to anyone who will listen.

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

All of those shitty Big Tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and many others, all corporate Social Media platforms (including Reddit of course, fuck Spez), those shitty Hollywood media corporations, CDNs like Cloudflare or Akamai, Tesla and everything related to Elon Musk, Starbucks, basically all fast food chains, every Chinese or Russian company, every Israeli company, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestle and many others. I also try to stay away from PayPal, banks and insurance companies as much as possible, they are criminals.

We shouldn't just focus on shitty companies. Foundations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are basically tax-exempt billionaire investment funds in disguise. This is a great video about the lies of billionaire philanthropy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OH4uh8cHuto

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[–] HansSlonzok@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Apple and Microsoft will never get my money. So i don't use any MS and Apple products. Apple products are for fools who have no brain.

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[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Nestle Apple EA

[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

EA, Ubisoft, Activision/Blizzard, Netflix and any streaming service, LG

[–] oraw1234w@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Home Depot (they helped found autism speaks),

nestle,

Walmart,

Warner Discovery,

Anything homophobic/transphobic,

anything that supports Trump,

any company that supports autism speaks,

[–] Globulart@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What's the deal with autism speaks? I read the wiki page but only saw a few relatively minor controversies

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

McD.

20 or so years ago I had several bad experiences back to back in different restaurants, and I just decided to not go there anymore.

And EA. Fuck them

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Also EA, you're right. Fuck em.

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Seagate, it let me down too many times

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

EA, Ubisoft, ActiBlizz. All for their various flavours of greedy nasty and/or sexual abuse. Bethesda is honestly likely to go on the list soon as well.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Amazon, PayPal, Google. Did I say PayPal? Oh, right and don’t forget PayPal.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] astanix@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

PayPal acts as a bank without having to follow any banking laws. You have 10k in your PayPal account and PayPal decides its theirs? No recourse for you.

Just search paypal took my money and you can read all the horror stories.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

I only have PayPal linked to a credit card, so I can always pit that ruthless company against them, I guess. But it does sour me on them if that's how they treat their merchants

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[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Burger king.a few years ago i went through the drive through to get my little sister a milkshake. Machine down, okay what about an ice cream? Oh thats down too. " i didnt know I came to McDonald's" dude over the menu laughed.... but then this big ole cunt of a manager comes yelling at me to leave their property! I dont remember what all was said but it ended with me yelling back at her "fuck you, you dont just come screaming at people over a joke. YOU FAT BITCH!" Then i went to a McDonald's and told their drivethrough lady and got free ice cream while they laughed. And i havent been back since.

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[–] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Chick-fil-A. Hobby Lobby. DeviantArt/Wix (any Israeli company, in fact, until Palestine is free).

[–] Aremel@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's up with DeviantArt?

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[–] furycd001@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Spotify & pretty much most music streaming services. I buy all my music directly from the artist whenever possible....

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I’m boycotting Sabra hummus until Israel gives us a motherfucking ant-colony-level Hamas bunker under that hospital. We were promised a whole ass command center and got a wack ass video of one hole. I want to see the secret lair.

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[–] ____@infosec.pub 7 points 9 months ago

CVS and Walgreens.

Walgreens pulled out of selling certain reproductive health items in numerous states even though they would have been an ideal test case and certainly could have absorbed the costs of litigation.

CVS fucked up my meds years ago during a period i was cash pay, and then doubled down on the error and expected me to pay for it. Basically, extended vs immediate release, and $100 va $1.

Never did get an apology, or even an admission that the paper scrip said immediate release.

My employer unfortunately insists on using them as a PBM but that doesn’t mean i need to buy drugs from them.

They did another thing a few years prior that angered me deeply, but that’s neither here nor there. Something something “the law requires…” and the law verifiably did not require that behavior or process.

Also, you can bet your ass that I will never give one unnecessary dime to Express Scripts. Without disclosing too much, they have a monopoly on a thing that’s got some regulations around it, and I’m stuck with them for fulfilment. Doesn’t mean I’ll ever give them a penny voluntarily.

Seriously considered switching to a different formulation of the same long term med just to avoid them, but it didn’t make sense for my use case. Doing so would just have put me back in Come Visit Satan’s clutches anyway.

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