The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: StarSwirl05 on February 10, 2012, 07:08:51 AM
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Is there a particular company you refuse to buy from? Like you've either had bad experiences or their products were a bust? For me, I won't buy from Audiovox. The CD player I bought from them lasted a week before refusing to play at all (was only $25). My mom refuses to buy GE products because of their breakdowns and I think I'd follow that path because two of our GE products died. Our oven, first had a defect with the digital clock display, then went on the fritz because of a thunderstorm and then died completely. Next to go was the microwave. The handle broke at the bottom and then one day apparently it died too because it was off. Keep in mind that our 2nd microwave isn't a GE product and hasn't had a single problem and has been in the house since at least we moved in (no doubt the old microwave and oven were there too but didn't last as long. Okay that's enough of my rant.
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Toshiba, I'm not buying anything from them again if I can help it. I've had nothing but bad experiences with their products.
My first laptop contained a toshiba dvd drive/burner. Lovely if not for the fact that Toshiba refused to update the software drivers for it. This meant that withing months of getting it, I'd have to scour the shops for certain kinds of dvds if I needed to burn anything. Since it refused to recognize any other ones.
I figured it was a one time fluke, so when my friend advised me to get a Toshiba laptop for my next one I listened.
I bought this rather high end laptop because I needed a good machine for my college education, I'm learning to do 3d modeling, animation and rendering among others. Which requires quite a powerful processor and graphics card.
Now this laptop functioned fairly fine for 2 years. I did notice that a program or 2 seemed incredibly unstable on my machine for no explainable reason, but I shrugged that off since I had alternatives. Untill I had to start using a program with no alternatives, installed it and was told I needed to upgrade the software drivers for my ATI graphics card. No problem I thought, so I puled up ATI's page to get my drivers only to be told I wasn't allowed to because Toshiba made it's own drivers. The update simply refused to run on my laptop. So I headed over to Toshiba's page and was told I HAD the newest drivers, since they weren't updated in 1.5 years.
I bought a Toshiba laptop geared towards high end graphical work, and they refuse to update the software for it after no more then half a year. Needless to say I was rather pissed off at that point, I couldn't take my college class because I couldn't run the software.
Only a month or 2 later the hard drive of the laptop broke down. With Toshiba's warranty service taking weeks to pick up an fix a laptop, and me not having the time for that with all my college work, I paid for a new one out of my own pocket. Six weeks after that the graphics card died. Now I know I used this laptop quite intensively, but my previous B-brand one still functioned fine after over 4 years of intensive use. Hence, at this point I'd completely had it, and invested in a new laptop.
Added to this are the problems my friend had with her Toshiba. She bought an even more high end laptop then me and it hasn't functioned properly ever since she got it. It kept randomly crashing and turning itself off even after having been sent back for repairs several times.
There have been huge waiting times because they didn't have he correct parts on hand, and several guarantees that they fixed the issue this time, but the problem never went away.
Now it seems Toshiba outsources some of their repairs, seems to have to do with extra purchased years of warranty, which are then handled by an outside company. This company tried to repair my friends laptop the last time it was sent in, only for something to have gone wrong in their computer system. They were convinced the laptop was no longer under warranty, so they demanded a large sum of money for the repairs. My friend then spend an additional 3 weeks without her laptop, because Toshiba and the repair company needed that much time to squabble back and forth, while the machine was held hostage.
After all of this we've both firmly decided we're never buying Toshiba again. Both of us have a new laptop at this point and had surprisingly little problems.
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Well..............Sorta............Thing is, I MEAN to but then I forget and mix names up and end up doing it anyway and kicking myself when I end up in the same spot again.
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I don't really have any, but that's just because I tend to stick to brands that I know are good. *shrug*
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I boycott Nestlè.
Not because of bad quality but because of their ethics.
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After the horrible treatment I got while working there: barely getting scheduled, sent home early the few days I was scheduled to come in, working five and a half hours twice with no break whatsoever and being given bullcrap excuses as to why they had no hours for me, I will never ever give Dairy Queen a cent of my money. I'm so mad at them after that, that I can't even look at Dairy Queen garbage on the ground without feeling highly annoyed.
I also don't buy Kit Kat since they've gone with those annoying crunching sounds for their jingle. That noise really grates on my nerves. For the longest time I wouldn't buy Toaster Strudels because of the snotty kids they used in their commercials acting all high and mighty about having a strudel and bashing Pop Tarts. Also thought their slogan was pretty dumb. I couldn't care less what kids want to eat. =P
I've also recently decided never to go to JC Penny's because of the commercial they have running right now that consists of nothing but people screaming. I don't like to go to department stores anyway though so *shrug*
I've made it a longtime practice to avoid products/places that have obnoxious commercials. =p This goes back to when I was a kid.
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Toshiba, I'm not buying anything from them again if I can help it. I've had nothing but bad experiences with their products.
I won't buy HP for the same reasons! Printers, laptops, software, I'm never buying anything from HP again!
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E-machines! My computer hard drive crashed literaly a few days after the one year warranty was up. Not cool! I was so angry i let everyone know about it and to this day ill tell people not to buy them.
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I will never EVER use Clear internet ever ever ever again! I had the worst experience with them and their shoddy "customer service". It's incredibly sad that Time Warner Cable is better for me (and I've had issues with THEM too!)
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After the horrible treatment I got while working there: barely getting scheduled, sent home early the few days I was scheduled to come in, working five and a half hours twice with no break whatsoever and being given bullcrap excuses as to why they had no hours for me, I will never ever give Dairy Queen a cent of my money. I'm so mad at them after that, that I can't even look at Dairy Queen garbage on the ground without feeling highly annoyed.
I also don't buy Kit Kat since they've gone with those annoying crunching sounds for their jingle. That noise really grates on my nerves. For the longest time I wouldn't buy Toaster Strudels because of the snotty kids they used in their commercials acting all high and mighty about having a strudel and bashing Pop Tarts. Also thought their slogan was pretty dumb. I couldn't care less what kids want to eat. =P
I've also recently decided never to go to JC Penny's because of the commercial they have running right now that consists of nothing but people screaming. I don't like to go to department stores anyway though so *shrug*
I've made it a longtime practice to avoid products/places that have obnoxious commercials. =p This goes back to when I was a kid.
OLD NAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's one I avoid like the plague!!!!!! For the same reasons you mentioned! Their commercials drive me batty!!!
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Well I never watch TV so I don't boycott anything because of commercials - since I don't watch them!
I don't purchase HP products because of the poor customer service issues I've had with them. Apple for much the same reasons.
Mmm. Trying to think of some others.
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These are my big ones:
Another for Toshiba. Never buy their 'satellite' computers. Yeah, they update from their satellites and then crash and burn! :blink:
2 local car companies, I don't want to be sued for mentioning their names. Crooked sellers don't disclose that the brand new Jeep that we bought (with 8 miles on it) was in an accident on the lot, then they are bought out by a larger local car company, larger company is aware that Jeep was in an accident and doesn't disclose when said vehicle is taken in for an oil change; instead they void our factory warrenty and suggests that the $1,000 worth of repairs needed to keep tires attached to front end of vehicle with less than 35,000 miles are 'routine.' :mad: (Only slightly ranty here.)
Applebees. My husband and his sister and 3 other people went there for dinner. They were told wait time was 10 mins. Ended up being 50, as they continually sat people in open individual tables and wouldn't put 2 tables together. They tried to seat 5 people (including one baby in carrier) at a tall bar table. As husband leaves angrily because he refuses to eat his meal out of his lap, the manager has balls to say 'what the he!! is his problem.' Corporate has been called. >_<
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Nexxtech, their electronics are *crap*. Anything I buy of their lasts a month. Maybe two.
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I refuse to shop at WalMart. I hate their business practices.
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The way I was treated the last few months at my last employment keep me from buying anything from Coop. If I'm in a mall in need of groceries and that's the only store, I go to another place. I've not put my foot in any store from that chain since my last day working there.
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Hasbro...they make those funky pony things and then they screw up the character colors...ugh ^_^
:silly: :silly:
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Radio Shack. Mr. Skeen managed a local one a few years ago and the stories are not pretty. He liked the work, and he liked the people, but he hated the company and its policies and the way it treated its employees.
That said, I will buy anything HP makes. Every computer I have ever owned has been an HP and my decade-old college computer still runs like a dream. I play older games on it to keep my newer HP freed up for more advanced games & such. I also love my HP tablet. I am never without that thing!
Oh! And Cox Communications internet and cable. Hate. I had them for nearly a year and they never billed me correctly. They always said I hadn't paid, when in fact I clearly always had. The problem? They were crediting MY payment to my parents' account because we have the same last name. My parents would call and ask why their bill was so low and they'd never give an answer, and I'd BE called and asked why I hadn't paid AGAIN that month. I turned my bank on them (I love you, Chase Bank), and they got me all kinds of refunds and special offers, but it happened again the following month so I dropped Cox for Dish Network and have never looked back. I LOVE Dish! It's gone out fewer times in bad storms than the cable did.
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Im not a big fan of Best buy or Microsoft for thay matter. During my college years I bought a computer from them. I had so much trouble with it. Sometime 2 years later or so, one of there sales people was honest with me and told me that my problem was that I had window ME. If anyone remembers, it was nicknamed "Memory Eater" beacause it was so messed up and pretty much a broken version of an OS.
After that, I desided that I would build my next computer myself. I don't trust these computer companies to be honest and back up there product.
Now I have had trouble with my custom built computer, buy for the most part, it was software rather then hardware. Bonus, I have been able to help friends and family upgrade there computers.
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Dell.
My husband bought a high-end laptop from them about two years ago. Since then, he's gone through at least 8 motherboard replacements, 2 refurbished computers, 2 replacement speakers, and just now two of his usb ports have decided to stop working.
Their customer service is fast. They send a repair guy to our home with the parts instead of making us send the computer away. But in the end, all of this doesn't matter because they frequently send the wrong/broken parts and his computer still doesn't work like it should! This is his work computer when he does stuff for the army at home and what he has to use to get his graduate work done.
As for my older HP laptop, it runs a little hot and the cat killed the battery when she knocked it to the floor, but it still plays games better than the hubby's. Hah!
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I won't download music from Amazon, did it once and my order went kind of funny so I'm not keen on using their download service, had no other issues with their normal shopping though.
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For me, I tend to stay clear of Samsung displays and HP laptops. I've had three Samsung CRT displays fail on me in a ridiculously short time.
As for HP laptop, bad experience. I bought a HP Compaq laptop and the LCD backlight failed within 6 months. HP refused to repair it, saying that model is obsolete and kept pushing me to buy a new laptop. Fair enough, a third party store replaced the backlight for me, at a cost. Later, the display graphics chipset couldn't go beyond a certain driver version. It turns out that the video BIOS is outdated and a update is needed. Problem is, ATI, the makers of the video chipset of the laptop, did not distribute the BIOS openly and asked me to go back to HP. HP again kept telling me that the laptop is obsolete and kept pressing me to buy a new laptop, even though at that time, the laptop was hardly three years old. I stuck to the old drivers, even though this means many games won't run on it. I stopped using the laptop after I left college and only recently bought another laptop, one that isn't HP.
Dell.
I feel your pain. Dell is #2 on my laptop avoidance list. Not only did they provide crud support (my netbook's LCD display developed a crack, and they refused to service it even though the machine is still in warranty. It also only came with 1GB of RAM and refused upgrade modules of many companies), they refused to repair my mom's Dell XPS laptop on the account that the warranty has expired. And how much do they want for repairing the thing? Three thousand freaking Malaysian ringgits to extend the warranty. If I don't extend the warranty, it will still cost around a thousand for a new motherboard. Nevermind that the problem the laptop developed is widespread on the internet and there is a recall program, when pressed they told me that the recall only applies to North America.
That Dell laptop now sits in the store room, stripped off it's hard disk and memory modules (I used the memory modules to upgrade my sister's laptop). My mom now has a nicer, newer laptop that is not a Dell.
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Burger King.
NEVER EVER AGAIN!!!
For starters their "value menu" is $.50 higher than any BK I have ever been to.
I bought two 4 piece chicken nugget things for a total of $3.33.
Didn't have any cash on me so I used my Visa card.
Ate my food and went about life like normal.
Fast forward two weeks later when I get my statement.
Burger King CHARGED ME $ 33.33!!!!!!!
I almost came unglued.
I called the store manager and he basically told me I couldn't prove anything without a eceipt.
Funny thing is, they TAPE your receipt to the bag, so once you're done eating you toss it.
Mad beyond all belief now I file a claim with Wells Fargo.
They let this drag out for TWO freaking months only to tell me to kick rocks because I can't prove I didn't buy $33.33 worth of food.
Moral of the story?
Don't trust Burger King or Wells Fargo to do the right thing or care about their customers.
:/
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I'll be staying away from Ricky's for awhile since they gave me food poisoning on Christmas eve. It made for a not-so-pleasant Christmas day.
The same thing happened with a local Mexican food restaurant on my birthday back in 2008. I might get the courage up to go back there one day soon - mostly because they are the only non fast-food Mexican food place in town. Plus they got lots of sunflowers decorating the place.
Not interested in Sun Life Financial. Despite the fact that they are always looking for employees, they gave Mr. Stomper an endless cold shoulder. We could have used the income. So they are on our "no thanks" list.
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I've been boycotting Microsoft since 2006.
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I also won't order from Via Roma, an (italian?) restaurant that's part of the shopping district close to my house. Their food wasn't that good and that was topped off with the power going out due to a severe thunderstorm arriving that night. So we were practically in the dark waiting for our food (though we sat where the only pint size source of light was). I'm also the same about Wal-Mart. They never seem to have what I'm looking for.
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Just recently...Asda [Walmart's UK brand] - I am fed up being made to feel a criminal because I want more than one plastic bag to take my shopping home!
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I refuse to buy anything from Starbucks. I don't care if they are all over the damn campus, their coffee tastes burned and they are so expensive. >.< If I'm with my friends and someone wants to treat me I'll get a chai latte but I won't go there on my own.
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Wendy's - I got food poisoning from there a while back and haven't gone back since.
Hewlett-Packard - I bought their dv6000 media notebook when I first started college. I always do my research before buying any sort of technology and NOWHERE did it say that that specific model had been recalled. I hadn't even had the thing for a year when the BIOS battery died and the computer only displayed a black screen on startup. I called HP and they said, "Yeah, we recalled that model because the BIOS battery has a tenancy to die." Thankfully it was under warranty and it got fixed for free. I've also dealt with several HP printers. Just... ugh. They're not getting my money every again.
Dell/Alienware - Do I even need to say anything here?
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Virgin Media actually made me cry...they are the worst internet providers EVER. 0_0 ...I...I...can't even go into the grief they gave me! *trauma*
(google 'funny ntl complaint letter' - (ntl is the name VM used to go by XD ) I would also not fly by Virgin Air just because it's also owned by these bad people.
I also made a point of boycotting MLP and showing my disgust for g3.5 mlps by not touching them with a barge pole lol.
Hm, and I did not buy any Golden Compass merchandise because it just dissapointed me too much.
Aaaand many individual shops that have been rude to my Mum because of her disability ><
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Like Kittybethy, I too shall never get another HP product.
I also boycott a tooth paste brand called Colgate, because of their use of triclosan in their products.
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For me, I tend to stay clear of Samsung displays and HP laptops. I've had three Samsung CRT displays fail on me in a ridiculously short time.
As for HP laptop, bad experience. I bought a HP Compaq laptop and the LCD backlight failed within 6 months. HP refused to repair it, saying that model is obsolete and kept pushing me to buy a new laptop. Fair enough, a third party store replaced the backlight for me, at a cost. Later, the display graphics chipset couldn't go beyond a certain driver version. It turns out that the video BIOS is outdated and a update is needed. Problem is, ATI, the makers of the video chipset of the laptop, did not distribute the BIOS openly and asked me to go back to HP. HP again kept telling me that the laptop is obsolete and kept pressing me to buy a new laptop, even though at that time, the laptop was hardly three years old. I stuck to the old drivers, even though this means many games won't run on it. I stopped using the laptop after I left college and only recently bought another laptop, one that isn't HP.
Dell.
I feel your pain. Dell is #2 on my laptop avoidance list. Not only did they provide crud support (my netbook's LCD display developed a crack, and they refused to service it even though the machine is still in warranty. It also only came with 1GB of RAM and refused upgrade modules of many companies), they refused to repair my mom's Dell XPS laptop on the account that the warranty has expired. And how much do they want for repairing the thing? Three thousand freaking Malaysian ringgits to extend the warranty. If I don't extend the warranty, it will still cost around a thousand for a new motherboard. Nevermind that the problem the laptop developed is widespread on the internet and there is a recall program, when pressed they told me that the recall only applies to North America.
That Dell laptop now sits in the store room, stripped off it's hard disk and memory modules (I used the memory modules to upgrade my sister's laptop). My mom now has a nicer, newer laptop that is not a Dell.
Dell...
Nearly every computer/laptop we have in college is a Dell model and they suck. They are really slow and they just lag so freaking much it puts my old laptop to shame
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I thought of one, actually ... I will never, ever have another Comcast service as long as I live. Their customer service is just terrible.
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Simba toys. One of my daughters received some of these (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Character-Options-Princess-Mermaids-sisters/dp/B001AMFB2E/ref=sr_1_13?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1328914826&sr=1-13) for Christmas and the accessories in them stunk of cannabis :shocked:
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Sony. Never again. My Vaio laptop crashed after a few months. Customer service was great, but still.
Procter & Gamble because of what they do to animals.
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Oh, I have another too! Electronic Arts. OMG they will NEVER fix the Sims3. And they don't care! And they've made it perfectly clear they don't care! Screw them! *spits*
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Simba toys. One of my daughters received some of these (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Character-Options-Princess-Mermaids-sisters/dp/B001AMFB2E/ref=sr_1_13?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1328914826&sr=1-13) for Christmas and the accessories in them stunk of cannabis :shocked:
But those are mermaids..?
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Acer laptops. Just ugh. I had so much issues with them on my previous laptop and all my friends who have had their laptops have had all these issues with them too.
The funny thing is my new laptop is a Dell and I have been completely happy with it so far. :P
Otherwise I don't have any brands or stores that I try and stay away from.
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There's three companies I will never buy from again:
American Apparel. Shady business practices and sexist marketing.
Chick-fil-a. As good as the waffle fries are, I won't support such a homophobic company.
Forever 21. Ethical and copyright violations.
I also don't buy from that something-and-Fitch store because really? You want me to buy something in the dark when your store smells so bad? It's ridiculous.
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Chick-fil-A - for their treatment and thinly veiled retraction of their negative remarks toward the gay community.
Salvation army- for their similarly homophobic views and their support of extremist christian groups
Steak N Shake - Just too gross. Can't do it. I'd rather bake myself a lard pie, it would probably be healthier.
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There are several dog food companies I will NEVER buy products from again....Purina, Iams, Cesars, Eukanuba, Ol' Roy, etc. I will also never buy jerky made in China because it is treated with radiation and too many pets have gotten sick from chicken jerky. I cannot help but wonder what is in this meat where it needs radiation? It's horrible to think about.
The reasons I will not buy from some of the leading dog food companies anymore is that I have discovered the truth in what goes into many of them. Rendered pets.... I saw the video that someone took in an Iams factory where they were putting euthanized cats and dogs in the food. Vets say pets all go to a common grave if you don't cremate them. This "common grave" is a dog food factory. Half the time they won't even remove the collars....they just let it all be ground up.
That's not all.....zoo animals, road kill, rotten meat, and butcher junk meat left on the floor is put in this food. Anytime a brand has meat by-products in their food it can be any kind of animal.
The drug used to euthanize animals cannot always be cooked out of an animal so your pet is ingesting small amounts of this stuff. Many leading dog food companies use this. I'll never buy something you can find at Wal-Mart or any supermarket for my pet. I go for companies that use GOOD, HUMAN-GRADE food.
All of the leading companies like the ones mentioned above use meat by-products. Many have been recalled for making dogs sick. Geez, I wonder why?
Yeah....I'm off my soapbox now. I wish more people realized what goes into this stuff.
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Huh. I see Toshiba mentioned in here a couple of times....but the Toshiba Satellite laptop that I am on is 6 years old, and I have never had any issues with it. But I am not doing anything extravagant with it, just living on-line :) i musts have gotten lucky!
I am not a big WalMart fan, and I don't eat Burger King either.
I don't care for Dell, but I have several Samsung products (2 LED TV's, 2 BlueRay players, 2 Smartphones) that are all awesome :) We have never had any issues with any of them yet.
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Ugh, Dell and Acer. Have had laptops from both these comoanies and the problems started on day one with both. Customer service for both are TERRIBLE as well!
And Staples....whee I bought these comps from. They don't even keep your name in the system for warranty so proving you have one is a pain in the rear end. And their customer service is awful. They don't treat you like a human being, more like an annoying fly they want to just swipe away.
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There are several dog food companies I will NEVER buy products from again....Purina, Iams, Cesars, Eukanuba, Ol' Roy, etc. I will also never buy jerky made in China because it is treated with radiation and too many pets have gotten sick from chicken jerky. I cannot help but wonder what is in this meat where it needs radiation? It's horrible to think about.
The reasons I will not buy from some of the leading dog food companies anymore is that I have discovered the truth in what goes into many of them. Rendered pets.... I saw the video that someone took in an Iams factory where they were putting euthanized cats and dogs in the food. Vets say pets all go to a common grave if you don't cremate them. This "common grave" is a dog food factory. Half the time they won't even remove the collars....they just let it all be ground up.
That's not all.....zoo animals, road kill, rotten meat, and butcher junk meat left on the floor is put in this food. Anytime a brand has meat by-products in their food it can be any kind of animal.
The drug used to euthanize animals cannot always be cooked out of an animal so your pet is ingesting small amounts of this stuff. Many leading dog food companies use this. I'll never buy something you can find at Wal-Mart or any supermarket for my pet. I go for companies that use GOOD, HUMAN-GRADE food.
All of the leading companies like the ones mentioned above use meat by-products. Many have been recalled for making dogs sick. Geez, I wonder why?
Yeah....I'm off my soapbox now. I wish more people realized what goes into this stuff.
That's pretty horrifying. Is there solid proof for this?
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I thought of one, actually ... I will never, ever have another Comcast service as long as I live. Their customer service is just terrible.
I hear this a lot, but I've never had an issue with Comcast, and they've been our TV provider since 1996 and we've had their internet service since it became available a few year after that. If there's ever an outage of either the TV, internet or both, I just call them up and they give us a credit on the bill and it's usually fixed pretty quickly.
There was only one time when I wasn't happy with them, and that was when the new DVR box I got wouldn't get any channels above 100, so they had to send out a guy to fix it. First off, he sees the cords we have running along the hallway and asks why we have cable hooked like this. I tell him it's nothing to do with the TV, it's the internet cords, which run from the router in the living room to the bedrooms. He tried to argue and tell me they weren't internet cords, like I wouldn't know, even though I'm the one who bought said cords and hooked them like that. I kept insisting that I should know what they are, after all, it's my house and he eventually dropped it, so I led him to my TV with the defective DVR. He kept insisting it was likely the cable lines that were bad (they were just replaced like a year earlier) and wouldn't accept that it could be a defective DVR box since it was new. So I took things into my own hands and ended up grabbing the working DVR from the living room and hooking it up in my room. Of course, all the channels came in just fine. So I take the non-working one out to the living room and the whole time the guy's still going on about how it can't be the box, but sure enough, once I hooked it to the living room, it could only get the lower channels. In the end, we got a new DVR and everything was fine. But I wasn't happy about that guy treating me like an idiot, then in the end, I pretty much had to solve the problem myself.
Anyway, as far as companies I avoid, there aren't many. Of course, there are brands I really like that I tend to stick to. Like Sony. Most of the electronics in our house (HDTV, digital camera, PS3, DVD player, etc) are Sony. I've never had any problems with any Sony products, other than a defective keyboard that came with my Vaio computer several years back (I now have my brother build my computers) and they sent me a replacement right away, which had pre-paid shipping labels to return the broken one so all I had to do was reseal the box with the broken keyboard, slap the shipping labels on and drop it at the UPS Store.
Well, I guess I do have two companies I strongly dislike. One is Wells Fargo, and the other is Electronic Arts.
EA, I mostly hate because I've been a Sims player for 12 years (since the beginning) and I really hate how EA is treating the franchise. The game is riddled with bugs, but they won't fix anything because they're too busy pushing the Sims Store DLC that's WAY over-priced. Oh, and I'm still pretty upset that back in the Sims 2 days, when the Bon Voyage EP came out, they switched their anti-piracy software to SecuROM, which promptly broke my CD burner and forced me to reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows XP to get rid of it. Then there's the crappy, spyware-ridden Steam wannabe, Origin. I will never use it, ever.
Wells Fargo, I hate because of the way they treated my brother and my mom. So a few years back, I think 2006 or so, my brother bought his first car, a 2004 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. It was an awesome car, and he was really proud of it. Unfortunately, the loan was through Wells Fargo. When his National Guard unit deployed to Iraq for a year, they were supposed to lower the interest, but they never did, and my mom spent a lot of time trying to get someone to fix it, but they either said they would do it (and didn't) or refused to talk to her. One lady accused her of not having permission to talk about the account even though they had it in writing and was so rude to her it made her cry. Even after he came back they refused to refund the difference of what he overpaid by them not changing the interest rate and screwed up his payments more than once. He finally ended up selling the car, just to be rid of Wells Fargo.
Actually, I just thought of another one: Microsoft. So my brother bought an XBox 360 a few years back (it's some kind of Halo edition, so the system is green and orange) and got two XBox Live accounts, one for himself and one for his roommate/best friend since they played together quite a bit on the same system. When he found out he was deploying to Iraq, he called Microsoft up to cancel both Live accounts because he'd be gone for a year (he told them why) and while he could bring his 360 with him, he couldn't use the Live service in Baghdad, so he wasn't going to pay for it. The first person he talked to said no, he couldn't cancel it. The second one told him he was lying and he could use it when he was overseas (apparently they also thought he'd have tons of free time) so he should just keep paying anyway. The third time he called, he finally got someone who said she could cancel it. Well, it turned out, she only cancelled one of the accounts. He tried calling back to get the other one cancelled, and they again, refused. He ended up having to cancel his bank card and got issued another one with a new number to stop the payments. His bank said they've gotten complaints about Microsoft not wanting to cancel accounts, and had suggested getting a new card. It makes me glad I own a PS3 and don't have to pay for online.
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Salvation army- for their similarly homophobic views and their support of extremist christian groups
I am not a big fan of Salvation Army either. I will never donate to them and I only shop at their thrift stores reluctantly. I prefer Savers but when it comes to toys at thrift stores you can only find what you find and if Savers is a bust that day but Salvation Army has something I collect I'm gonna buy it. But at least I don't feel guilty if I find a rare Pixietail in a G3 pony's hair and only pay .50 for the both of them.
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Proctor and Gamble for one I can think of at midnight. I don't buy a ton of processed foods either but no particular brand I can think of besides Market Pantry.
As far as pet foods go, Nutro used to (I mean over a decade ago) test positive for pentabarbitol. This is the chemical used to put companion pets to sleep. It is not used on cows or horses or livestock animals that would either be too big to use a costly medication to put them to sleep with or would be used in human consumption. The only conclusion you can draw as to how Nutro foods contained this chemical is rendered companion animal meat.
I also don't use Blue Buffalo because they hide the by-products using scientific names. And also out is any food containing menadione.
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Couldn't they use that stuff to kill fur bearing animals? Not that rendered fur animals is much better but as long as people continue to wear fur the bodies need to go somewhere.
I don't see what is so bad about by-products. In the wild animals don't just eat the parts humans would eat. They eat everything including the organs and skin.
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Salvation army- for their similarly homophobic views and their support of extremist christian groups
I am not a big fan of Salvation Army either. I will never donate to them and I only shop at their thrift stores reluctantly. I prefer Savers but when it comes to toys at thrift stores you can only find what you find and if Savers is a bust that day but Salvation Army has something I collect I'm gonna buy it. But at least I don't feel guilty if I find a rare Pixietail in a G3 pony's hair and only pay .50 for the both of them.
The only way I can justify shopping there is that I'm rescuing them from their evil clutches :P I've actually never been to one.
Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
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Kind of, but not quiet. I will generally purchase products, but not walk back in the door of certain places because of various reasons. Harvey Norman in Cranborne is on my no go list because the staff are idiots and the manager tries to tell you in a nice way you are a moron because you purchased a $2500 oven from them that is faulty. They just don't want to know about it.
The Commonwealth Bank signed me up for some form of life insurance about 8 - 9 years ago without my authority to do so, I tried to cancell the policy 3 times and failed to do so, I then shut my account down, and got a letter in the mail from them saying "please give us the details of your other account so we can start taking $ out of it for the policy you a) didn't sign up for and b) have also tried to cancel 3 times previously" I sat down there & then and wrote them a long letter to the manager stating if I ever heard from them or their insurance company again I would see them in court. I haven't heard from them since, and never walked back in their doors and I am a very happy woman.
Same goes with transactions online, if I have a poor transaction through ebay or similar I will never purchase from that seller or company again.
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Another one for me,
Dorthy Perkins I've brought several T-shirts from them, all of them basicaly shrunk, the design on them faded or cracked and they got holes pretty quickly. My brother won't shop at Burtons anymore for similar reasons.
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
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Huh. I see Toshiba mentioned in here a couple of times....but the Toshiba Satellite laptop that I am on is 6 years old, and I have never had any issues with it. But I am not doing anything extravagant with it, just living on-line :) i musts have gotten lucky!
I am not a big WalMart fan, and I don't eat Burger King either.
I don't care for Dell, but I have several Samsung products (2 LED TV's, 2 BlueRay players, 2 Smartphones) that are all awesome :) We have never had any issues with any of them yet.
I've got the opposite thing going actually. Ever since I've switched from Toshiba to Dell I haven't had any issues at all. Despite many people apparently having a lot of problems with Dell systems. I suppose it's partly down to luck really.
I'm just personally not taking my chances with Toshiba again.
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Only one comes to mind. A holiday company called Bonus Week Breaks. Dad got a marketing call out of the blue a few years ago and actually bought a weekend break with them. I then read up online and found the feedback was mostly bad so recommended he cancelled. He tried but they weren't having it. They now ring us up to remind us it's "expiring this week" but they've been doing that for the past few years! At that time they can ring 4 times a week. Because they're based abroad we can't report them for nuisance calling. I've also tried three times to cancel with them but they still keep ringing back. I'm hopeful they've finally got the message but I'm not holding my breath as March is the time they call the most.
I'll also never put any clothes out in Charity bags that come through the letterbox. Half of them aren't from real charities and they get sold for profit rather than going to people who need them!
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I wouldn't ever use Direct Line insurance again after they kept my car for two weeks longer than expected after it was broken into and I had to give the hire car back before I got my own car back! And their communication during this time was shocking! This was ten years ago; I do not forgive and forget!
Scottish Power: they seem to think they are a savings account and that you should pay way more for your gas an electric than you what you actually use so you have a huge credit balance the whole time, even in summer. They also misrepresented their prices to hook me in then told me I wasn't paying enough (in the beginning before putting my payments up to waaay more than I was using like I first said)
TalkTalk: they changed our telephone service over to them without permission!! They phoned, we said send some info, they switched us!!
Close Premium Finance! Appauling service for too many reasons to remember! Many insurance companies use them as a finance company and if they do, I will NOT buy their insurance!
I think I'll stop there, I loathe poor customer service so could probably go on lol :P
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Another one for me too. Speaking of service providers- Astro, a local Pay TV provider.
Fed up of them. I've been asking them to bring in Boomerang, KidsCo and CBeebies for years and they never did (CBeebies eventually got picked up by a competing service, which I'm now subscribed to). They're more keen on bringing in Taiwanese and Hong-Kong drama channels and channels pertaining to soccer. They're also known to interrupt channels to show their own advertisements. They also dropped BBC Entertainment on the pretense that the channel wasn't popular (it's the only place Malaysians can get Doctor Who) and refused to bring in Discovery HD- they only have Discovery World HD, which does NOT air Mythbusters at all.
And they play dirty- they're known to force channels into "exclusivity" deals which prevents the channel from also signing with competing Pay TV providers in Malaysia, and they've probably did something very bad to be able convince the local regulatory bodies to prevent the competition from also transmitting using satellite (the competitions here all use IPTV, which uses a set top box that requires an Internet connection, instead). And to top it all off, they're partially owned by News Corp (aka FOX).
Ditched them in 2010. Sometimes I look back, then remember that they're the reason I can no longer get to watch Doctor Who.
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
Acana is another one. It's made by the same company as Orijen. It's what I feed my guys.
Wardah - it isn't so much the use of by-products that is the problem. It's the fact that most dog food companies ONLY use by-products for their foods with very little REAL protein in them. You want there to be a balance, since you're absolutely right that SOME by-products aren't unhealthy for animals to have as they would be eating part of that within the wild. Essentially you want to look for a dog-food company that breaks down the ingredients and some sort of REAL protein should be within the first 3 ingredients since that is what the majority of the food is made of.
If possible, you also want to see a % breakdown of the ingredients used - for example Acana's Grassland (what my Aussie is on) is 60% protein with about 55% of that being human-grade meat sources (in this case lamb). The first 4 ingredients are boneless lamb, lamb meal (high density lamb, with water removed - actually a better protein source for dogs than straight meat in dry dog foods), salmon meal, and herring meal. All of them are real protein sources. I choose a grain free product since my pup has skin allergies so they use potato's for a binding agent.
The bottom line is: Know what goes into the dog food. You should be able to read most of the ingredient label and understand what was included in the food. Pet food choices are a personal thing - some dogs do great on the 'mac n cheese' diet (ol'roy, beneful, kibbles and bits, etc.) but other dogs will need something more specialized, just like with people.
Others that I like are Nature's Instinct and Nature's Balance.
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for me, its Lush (the store that sells the high end soaps and lotions and stuff).
i dont shop there myself, but i helped my little sister place a order around $35 for a few different body butters and bath bombs and other stuff from their christmas line while it was current. we placed the order at the end of december right when the christmas line was discontinued (but they still had some in stock). here it is the middle of february and the order still hasn't been processed. waste of time and money.
then last year my sister ordered a cup (one of those really good thermal ones) from Glitzy Glam or something like that. the picture showed the cup with "professionally computer printed decal patterns" of purple and blue polka dots and a letter of your choice. so she placed the order but accidentally ordered one with a letter B instead of a T, so when that one came in we sent it back before ever opening it, then when we got the right one and opened it up, those "professionally computer printed" decals were STICKERS! about half of the decals peeled of the cup now. professionally computer printed MAH BUTT! that was a ripoff!
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Toshiba, I'm not buying anything from them again if I can help it. I've had nothing but bad experiences with their products.
I won't buy HP for the same reasons! Printers, laptops, software, I'm never buying anything from HP again!
I feel the exact same way! HP is garbage!
BTW...I love your new avie!
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I have kitties but I assume the same thing holds true.
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I have kitties but I assume the same thing holds true.
Yup! I have a kitty too - I used the same idea for her food too.
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
Just want to second Wellness :) My cats and dog eat that exclusively. Both dry and canned (for the kitties).
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I dunno, haven't had any problems with my HP purchases but not buying anything from Utz (sells cheese dip but that's all I know). Their cheese dip is awful. It's not smooth, more glob-y and just badly textured. Definitely not buying anything from dyson (my mom did). Sorry, dyson fans but I just think they're overly priced hunks of scrap metal. Seriously: $230 for a fan? No thanks. Mine works just fine (has for a good number of years), is less expensive and TBH, I don't find any "unsettling buffeting" at all.
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Toshiba, I'm not buying anything from them again if I can help it. I've had nothing but bad experiences with their products.
I won't buy HP for the same reasons! Printers, laptops, software, I'm never buying anything from HP again!
I feel the exact same way! HP is garbage!
BTW...I love your new avie!
Thanks! I love her too!
Kanthanka drew her for me!
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Emerson! Even though I've only owned vcr's from them, I'm reluctant to buy any kind of electronic from them again because I've had 2 vcr's from them about 10 years ago and neither lasted a year! Really crappy quality. One would barely record and the other just quit. Guess they were trying to get people to use DVD players more.
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I don't tend to get too picky, as I wouldn't be able to buy anything if I did......
But I tend to stay away from Home Depot, as I don't like their persistent support of the "gay lifestyle" (for lack of a better term). I steer clear of Pepsico and Nestle, when possible, for the use of fetal stem cells in flavor research. And there are several brands (and major charities - Komen, etc.) that I avoid for donating to Planned Parenthood.
Makes it a major pain to shop during October, I tell you, when everything in the store is festooned with a pink ribbon, all going to Komen. (I'm like "I just want a box of broccoli!! UGH!!!")
I love my Comcast internet service........but I had SO much trouble getting it installed - I've lost all respect for Comcast customer service, and I'd be hesitant to get anything new with them.
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After the horrible treatment I got while working there: barely getting scheduled, sent home early the few days I was scheduled to come in, working five and a half hours twice with no break whatsoever and being given bullcrap excuses as to why they had no hours for me, I will never ever give Dairy Queen a cent of my money. I'm so mad at them after that, that I can't even look at Dairy Queen garbage on the ground without feeling highly annoyed.
I work at Dairy Queen right now too. Obviously under a different store owner but it comes with its problems too. Sorry you had such a crappy time there...wow. The only thing that keeps me sane is that I get the day shifts so I don't have to deal with the insane night crowd. :bolt:
hmmm... I avoid Starbucks now. I used to like the burnt coffee taste but the last few times I have gotten it, I just felt sick on it. It's also way too expensive.
Wendy's has been avoided for over 5 years. We went through the drive thru once and all we ordered was 6 jr. cheeseburgers and all of them were the same. The manager had a hissy fit and rudely yelled at us to come inside if we want to make an order that large. We were the only car in line. Really, I operate a drive thru myself, COME ON, that's nothing! lol
I also no longer shop at Forever21. Nothing super personal there, but you really do get what you pay for.
I'm surprised so many people have trouble with Dell laptops. Maybe I just got lucky! I had my first one for 7 years and ran it every single day. This one is five years old, took a beating and shows age but it is still going! I never had to deal with their customer service though. I figured when the 7 year old one never started up one day, it was just plain time for a new one. LOL.
EDIT: Oh, I used to avoid Best Buy only because whenever I would go in, the employees would always HOVER and follow me around as if I were going to steal or something. Or maybe they were trying to stick around customers so much so they wouldn't get into trouble. It was VERY uncomfortable and awkward to me. They got a very nice, polite letter and took it into consideration. Then I went back later and it was a perfect balance of not hovering, but still being available if you needed help. Stayed that way ever since lol!!
EDIT AGAIN: Holy smokes. Pepsi and Nestle are on my avoid list too now, until I do more research and it 100% proves otherwise. :blink: Fast search shows that Kraft does it too? :blink:
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I won't buy Dell products due to bad products and awful customer service.
I won't use AT&T or Comcast services due to repeated terrible customer service from past experiences.
I won't shop at Hobby Lobby because I don't believe in the things they believe in. Same for Chick-fil-a and Salvation Army.
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This is more of a 'learned my lesson' than 'avoid company' story. And it's sort of long...
My husband and I have Sprint and in July 2010 I got a new phone upgrade for cheap for continuing to be with the company. Phone's ok and all is good for a couple of months. November rolls around and the phone decides to randomly turn off. Not a big deal, it doesn't do it while I'm on a call, and I can turn it right back on. For another month it shuts off on its own, still a little annoying but not enough for me to do anything about it. Then it shuts off and takes a few tries and a battery removal to turn on. Then it shuts off while I'm on a call. This is not ok as I drive a slightly junky car and I don't want to be stuck on the side of the road if my car breaks down and my phone is acting funky.
Now, we don't have any insurance on either phone and I tell every single person I speak with throughout this whole ordeal that we don't. I make sure they understand this and that we don't have the money to pay extra; doesn't this qualify for a free fix? And every time the response is 'Yes, you'll get a free repair.' We didn't buy the insurance because I don't beat on my phone and my husband's phone is one of those "indestructible" ones because he's an EMT going for his paramedic's license and he treats his phone well too.
So I call Sprint and they give me a bit of a run around to tell me to call the company that sells the phone. They give me another run around and say 'Why didn't you call Sprint?' and I say I did, they told me to call you. So they tell me they'll fix it free as long as I didn't break the warranty (which boiled down to "I didn't try to 'drown' my phone and I didn't chuck it.). I am to send them the phone and they'll fix it over the course of seven business days. Now, if shipping there and back takes at least three days each = six days and they'll have to keep the phone for at least seven business days, that's a possible total of three weeks (allowing for weekends) that I'd be without my phone! Heck no! So the company says that I can take my phone in to Sprint, Sprint will send them the phone and give me a loaner phone for free. Ok, I'm fine with that. I call our usual Sprint store to confirm and they say 'Sure, we'll help. We'll confirm 1) free fix as warranty isn't broken, 2) loaner phone available, 3) double check: yes, no cost to you.'
So I go to the store and they basically deny everything. They won't give me a loaner (they don't have one and that's not their policy). I will have to buy insurance to get the phone fixed. The good news is I'll either get a new phone or it'll only take three days to fix the one I have. The insurance is $4/three months = $12. My husband and I decide that that's not too bad and we buy it and I hand over my phone. While I'm there I ask if this insurance that I just bought will cover fixing my husband's phone; the earpiece doesn't work and he has to use speaker phone. They say sure, as this is something that usually happens with this type of phone.
So my husband goes in about two weeks later to get his phone fixed and they tell him that he has to get his own insurance! That one is about $25 so we say ok. (Really annoyed at that because this is a typical problem with his phone type!!)
Funny thing is the guy in front of my husband was having the same sort of run around/denying problem we are! He'd bought his phone through work at his local Sprint store and a month or so later was having trouble with it. His local store had told him to go to our store to pick up a replacement. His store had called our store and our store said 'yes, we have a phone.' Only the poor guy arrives at our store (approximately 45 minutes out of his way) only to find that they don't have the dang phone!
Lesson learned: Take notes and write down who I'm talking to so that I can prove 'they said so'!! Still annoyed at them for this... What a headache! We don't really want to change service providers because then we'd have to buy a new plan and phones and possibly have to change numbers. We don't have the extra money to do this and besides this we've had no problems.
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
I will only feed my dogs Natural Balance and they love it. Plus, its way more affordable than Wellness, Innova, Orijen... etc The others are really great, just not in my price range.
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I feed Castor and Pollux Organix dog food and 4Health
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One that I forgot to mention that I won't buy from is T-Mobile. Service is terrible. Just setting up took 5 minutes and multiple tries when they clearly said "a few seconds". Didn't even keep login info either so I'd have to login all the time.
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Ugh right now it's Dirt Devil and Hoover. I've bought two vacuums from them - bagless - that both stopped working within six months! Four months even. I'm just going to buy the plain bag vacuums! Ugh. Over 200 wasted.
I dont support Chick-fil-A or Susan G. Komen.
I've had nothing but good experience with Toshiba but YMMV.
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Well, it's not a company, but it looks like I won't be visiting Atlantic City, and I'll be suggesting to my friends that they avoid it, too. They're bringing back diving horses (where they make a horse dive 40 feet into a pool), and won't get a single penny from me until they cancel it.
I also try to avoid big food chains and buy local, free-range, etc. when possible (though I live on imported cheese).
I try to avoid Walmart (I'd rather pay more for stuff that I won't wear out).
I won't be buying anything from Susan G. Komen again.
I don't buy any fast food.
I don't eat at one restaurant near me that gave me food poisoning...
I won't use Geek Squad (because they have ripped my boyfriend and me off repeatedly by fixing things that weren't broken, ignoring what we brought the computers in for, at the end of the warranty, so that we then have to pay to get it fixed) OR the small computer repair shop nearby (because they charged me for parts that my computer didn't need, couldn't fix it anyway, offered me a refund for the parts, and then no matter how often I contact them, never refunded me).
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[Snip] Oh! And Cox Communications internet and cable. Hate. [Snip] I turned my bank on them (I love you, Chase Bank), and they got me all kinds of refunds and special offers, but it happened again the following month so I dropped Cox for Dish Network and have never looked back. I LOVE Dish! It's gone out fewer times in bad storms than the cable did.
Seconding SO MUCH HATE for Cox. My boyfriend and I joke that they're well-named (we're gutter-minds). Our digital phone and Internet have gone out FIVE TIMES since the week before Christmas, and that first week they were out for over five days! *Not* good when you're trying to do last-minute Christmas shopping online and relatives are trying to call you to say happy holidays. Cox took the Sony PlayStation Network route and won't own up to the problem. They only say every time, "We're aware that some users may be experiencing problems, and we are working hard to fix this issue." Losing service five times in six weeks is just unacceptable. It's not even like we're out in the sticks--we're in the middle of town, where the physical network lines and such are supposedly maintained best for our area. If this is the "best" service for our area, I pity the people living further out. And don't even get me started on how often our cable TV and Cox DVR box crap out.
I'm sorry, but a lot of my income depends upon being able to get online, and Cox cable is a service we're paying for--it's not right to keep your customers in the dark! And there's been no compensation for what is now over a week's total of no service since December. We've been looking at Verizon FiOS in our area, but haven't heard enough consistent opinions on it yet to make the switch.
I'm jealous you have Dish now! We had that at my parents' house before I moved to my current location, and I loved it. Cox has been nothing but a step backward.
Also seconding the dislike for Salvation Army and their homophobia, as well as the horribly rude people who work at the one my family used to take stuff to. We once dropped off a box at the dock, only to have this real roughneck-lookin' type yell at us for bringing them clothes "covered in cat hair that [they'd] just have to throw out" (there was some cat hair caught in the tape on the box). I pointed out that there was no hair on the clothes, and even if there was, it would wash out. The guy started griping loudly that they shouldn't be expected to wash clothes before putting them out for sale (uhhh...you mean there's NO sterilization whatsoever at that shop?!)
I said, "Fine, we'll take the box to Goodwill. I know for a fact the one on [street name] actually cleans the things they sell" and grabbed the box. At which point the guy said he was going to call the police, because I was stealing from Salvation Army. His claim was the box--MY box--became their property the moment it touched their dock. Their property. Which he'd already said he was going to throw in the trash. Which is sooooo not how it works.
I grabbed the box, told the guy to do something to himself with a rusty dull knife--something that I will not elaborate upon here since the language I used would get me kicked off this forum XD --booked it to the car, threw myself in along with the "hairy" box, and floored the gas pedal out of there and on to Goodwill before he could get my plate number. The nice ladies at Goodwill were horrified at my story and the fact that this Salvation Army didn't sanitize their used clothing. One of them even said she was going to report the SA to the health department and/or the police. I honestly have no clue if that Salvation Army is still there anymore, as I never again took my donations anywhere but Goodwill. Boy, I hope Goodwill doesn't also have unsavoury political connections, or I'll have nowhere to take my donations! =^^;=
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Well, it's not a company, but it looks like I won't be visiting Atlantic City, and I'll be suggesting to my friends that they avoid it, too. They're bringing back diving horses (where they make a horse dive 40 feet into a pool), and won't get a single penny from me until they cancel it.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think it is the city of Atlantic City that is doing it. It doesn't really make sense to not visit a city just because one company there is doing something unsavory especially since I don't think the city can do anything to stop it.
Edit: The company that was going to do it canceled anyways.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/us-usa-horses-diving-idUSTRE81E20M20120215
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
Just want to second Wellness :) My cats and dog eat that exclusively. Both dry and canned (for the kitties).
Do you know what stores carry it? Target only seemed to have Purina and Iams. Its so gross, I look at the food labels and the first ingredient on every one is corn meal or chicken by-product ><
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
Just want to second Wellness :) My cats and dog eat that exclusively. Both dry and canned (for the kitties).
Do you know what stores carry it? Target only seemed to have Purina and Iams. Its so gross, I look at the food labels and the first ingredient on every one is corn meal or chicken by-product ><
Southern Agriculture carries it here, as well as Innova (I feed their EVO weight management to my cats), Canidae/Felidae, and Taste of the Wild. Can't say I've noticed Orijen there, but I stopped buying from them about a year ago when my husband realized we could buy 2 bags of EVO cheaper online, including shipping, than at the store.
And now my cats LOVE the mailman.
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I'm going to second Taste of the Wild and add Chicken Soup for the Pet Lovers' Soul. Both are great foods and pretty inexpensive to boot.
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Dunno if it's been mentioned or not but Blue Buffalo is another great do food with quality products. My little Dixie didn't care for it, though. :( I am slowly introducing her to Innova and she seems to like it.
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I'm incredibly happy to see people buying better food for their companion animals. :) My guy eats Nature's Balance Vegetarian formula (he can't eat meat due to allergies.)
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I'm stuck with my Samsung phone but I will never buy one again. I didn't have Windows and they won't release phone updates that are compatible on a Mac. I finally bought a Windows laptop for situations like this and PC games. It just so happened that it was the *one* version that can't run Samsung Droid updates. My phone also completely melted down within a year of me buying it. Fortunately the replacement was covered by the warranty with just two weeks to spare. I've had the replacement for 2 months and it randomly turns itself off.
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BP. After the oil spill and the workers that were killed. Not to mention how bad our ocean became polluted. (Granted yes, I know it wasn't the ONLY oil spill that happened, but it was one that affected ME personally)
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I've also recently decided never to go to JC Penny's because of the commercial they have running right now that consists of nothing but people screaming. I don't like to go to department stores anyway though so *shrug*
I've made it a longtime practice to avoid products/places that have obnoxious commercials. =p This goes back to when I was a kid.
I thought I was the only one who did that! Oh my gosh, seriously! I have found a brother in arms.
Does it seem to you that recently, commercials have gotten more and more annoying and random? Most of the time, the content of the commercial has nothing to do with what they are selling. And I have noticed that there are just commercials with people screaming. It is so irritating. Plus, if you watch a couple shows back-to-back on the same channel, the screaming commercials pop up like 10 times. I swear to god.
I refuse to have anything to do with Geico. Those pig commercials...they KILL ME. LITERALLY.
I work at a restaurant that has 3 TVs on the entire time, so my 6 hour shift is consumed by commercials. I feel like the ads are being punched into my head.
And i'll be darned if I don't hear that pig at LEAST 6 times a day.
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Is there any pet food you guys recommend, since there seem to be so many who use gross byproduct?
Canidae/Felidae, Natural Balance, Taste of the Wild, Wellness, Innova, Orijen
Just want to second Wellness :) My cats and dog eat that exclusively. Both dry and canned (for the kitties).
Do you know what stores carry it? Target only seemed to have Purina and Iams. Its so gross, I look at the food labels and the first ingredient on every one is corn meal or chicken by-product ><
Petco in the US carries Wellness.
Tractor Supply Co carries 4Health, Diamond, and Taste of the Wild (all made by Diamond).
I get my Acana from a local store, costs me as much as Wellness when I fed that, but it about $10 more than Taste of the Wild. I just prefer Acana & Wellness to Taste of the Wild because they have stable food recipes (e.g. the same amount of each ingredient goes in each time).
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I've also recently decided never to go to JC Penny's because of the commercial they have running right now that consists of nothing but people screaming. I don't like to go to department stores anyway though so *shrug*
I've made it a longtime practice to avoid products/places that have obnoxious commercials. =p This goes back to when I was a kid.
I thought I was the only one who did that! Oh my gosh, seriously! I have found a brother in arms.
Does it seem to you that recently, commercials have gotten more and more annoying and random? Most of the time, the content of the commercial has nothing to do with what they are selling. And I have noticed that there are just commercials with people screaming. It is so irritating. Plus, if you watch a couple shows back-to-back on the same channel, the screaming commercials pop up like 10 times. I swear to god.
I refuse to have anything to do with Geico. Those pig commercials...they KILL ME. LITERALLY.
I work at a restaurant that has 3 TVs on the entire time, so my 6 hour shift is consumed by commercials. I feel like the ads are being punched into my head.
And i'll be darned if I don't hear that pig at LEAST 6 times a day.
I can agree with you with annoying adverts. We have some real offenders here, not shops so much but things like
'We buy any car' they've sort of calmed the advert down though so the annoying song is only at the end
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Kmart/Sears online. I may go to their stores but NO WAY I am trying to purchase something from their website again. I wanted to get a plush beagle stuffed animal for my friend's little boy who just lost their family dog and that was the only place I could find one so I put in the order and then what did I receive? A plush Newfoundland dog (and a more expensive plush at that)! In trying to figure out how to return it to get the correct one I called and learned that they have no guarantee that an item listed as In Stock on their website is actually available and they could not tell me if I would actually get a beagle if I placed an order again. WHAT?? So I decided to try one more time and ordered the beagle again without returning the other dog yet. I waited a week without receiving any type of shipping update or anything on the order status. I write to them to find out where my order is and then they tell me the order was canceled because the item is out of stock. I never got any type of message from them about this. And they spelled my name wrong my name wrong twice in their reply. Blah, I was done with them. I took the Newfoundland dog and put it up on eBay and got more money than my original purchase price was for the beagle.
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Well, it's not a company, but it looks like I won't be visiting Atlantic City, and I'll be suggesting to my friends that they avoid it, too. They're bringing back diving horses (where they make a horse dive 40 feet into a pool), and won't get a single penny from me until they cancel it.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think it is the city of Atlantic City that is doing it. It doesn't really make sense to not visit a city just because one company there is doing something unsavory especially since I don't think the city can do anything to stop it.
Edit: The company that was going to do it canceled anyways.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/us-usa-horses-diving-idUSTRE81E20M20120215
They did just cancel it, but I posted this before they did. It was the company that runs the boardwalk area, and they were doing it with support from city officials, so I think it did make sense. Especially since they were doing it to bring people into the city, since the boardwalk and casinos are the attractions there.
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Well, it's not a company, but it looks like I won't be visiting Atlantic City, and I'll be suggesting to my friends that they avoid it, too. They're bringing back diving horses (where they make a horse dive 40 feet into a pool), and won't get a single penny from me until they cancel it.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think it is the city of Atlantic City that is doing it. It doesn't really make sense to not visit a city just because one company there is doing something unsavory especially since I don't think the city can do anything to stop it.
Edit: The company that was going to do it canceled anyways.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/us-usa-horses-diving-idUSTRE81E20M20120215
They did just cancel it, but I posted this before they did. It was the company that runs the boardwalk area, and they were doing it with support from city officials, so I think it did make sense. Especially since they were doing it to bring people into the city, since the boardwalk and casinos are the attractions there.
I'm just saying even if there was a boycott, the City couldn't legally do anything to stop them from doing it. Even if the City had said that they don't support it, they still can't stop them.
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I won't buy anything that is fake/a knockoff
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These are my big ones:
Another for Toshiba. Never buy their 'satellite' computers. Yeah, they update from their satellites and then crash and burn! :blink:
This. I bought their 'Satellite' laptop and it was dead like a WEEK after the warrenty gave up.
I also try to avoid Dairy Queen. I worked there...and teenagers don't handle spoiled milk well. *shivers*
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This topic has now gone far enough. :)