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I Won't Buy from (Company Name)!

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StarSwirl05:
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.

PandoraFox:
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.

kaoskat:
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.

Eviecorn:
I don't really have any, but that's just because I tend to stick to brands that I know are good.  *shrug*

little.fox:

I boycott Nestlè.

Not because of bad quality but because of their ethics.

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