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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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[–] snaprails@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Caledonian Sleeper who carefully wriggled out of paying a refund on a booking cancelled by the March 2020 C***d lockdown.

[–] systemguy_64@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Credit card chargeback. The services you paid for were not rendered.

[–] snaprails@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

They ran the train but lockdown started the next day so my 8 day trip was off. Then they said you couldn't get a refund on advanced tickets but could rebook later (at extra cost) up to a certain date but who knew when lockdown would end? I wouldn't have been able to get more leave anyway. Then they said a few days later that advance ticket refund would be given but when I applied they said "Too late, it's after the date you were due to travel". Every other company I'd booked with gave refunds even those bookings that were non-refundable. It looks like Caledonian Sleeper's days might be numbered anyway. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Sodastream because they were built on Palestinian occupied territory before they moved facilities back to Israel to avoid the bad press.

Spence Diamonds because they have the most annoying advertising and diamonds are bullshit carbon anyways.

Advertising being horrible is a huge red flag that your business is somewhere I won't be going at all. Car dealerships giving away gold bricks, hot dogs, telling you they are your friendly neighbor, giving away trips or extras with every purchase means those things are all baked into the price already and you are spending more then elsewhere.

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Seagate - bought 3 of their drives . All 3 failed within a month of the warranty being up. But they said "Warranty is up so suck it"; two can play that game.

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[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Twitter

Tesla

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

Most.

For being shitty.

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Carl's Jr. because of that awful sexualized man campaign. Awful ad campaigns also for Dove, Axe, Jimmy John's and Jersey Mike's. I'm sure there are others I'm not remembering at the moment.

Burger King and Chili's because of cavalier attitudes towards food poisoning.

McD's, Twitter, Susan G. Komen, commercialized fundraising of any kind, and Reddit for obvious reasons.

Lots of games I won't play and apps I won't download because of their ads.

[–] burliman@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can I get a link to that Carl’s Jr commercial?

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There were multiple. It went on a couple of years.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

None. Because I’m a realist.

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