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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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[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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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[-] Poayjay@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

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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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] furycd001@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

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

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[-] netchami@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

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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[-] 3migo@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

BP. Obvious reasoning.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Nestle Apple EA

[-] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 12 points 11 months ago

Seagate, it let me down too many times

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[-] b3an@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago
[-] astanix@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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.

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[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

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

[-] ____@infosec.pub 10 points 11 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.

[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Aremel@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

What's up with DeviantArt?

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[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 10 points 11 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.

[-] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Most of them

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Blizzard/Activision, EA, Every car company (I only buy pre 2010 cars). I could go on but you get the idea. Modern megacorps are fuckin gross.

[-] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I'm going to go classic and name a company that personally wronged me: Noodles & Co. I used to work in a mall and every single restaurant in the mall had a mall employee discount. It was usually a token discount between 5-10% but still it made a difference on your lunch break during an 8 hour shift. Noodles & Co. had no discounts for mall employees and one time I found a hair in my food there. It's petty but since then I have never returned to that restaurant

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[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

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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[-] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

None. I'm not rich, I don't have the luxury of straight-out boycotting any particular company. If I could, both Amazon and Walmart would be top of the list. And I'm sure many others.

Hell, I've been wanting to finally delete my Facebook account for years now, but Facebook marketplace is apparently the ONLY place I'm ever going to be able to sell anything. It's the only reason I still have the account. I have long since delete all posts, photos, and literally any other data that they would let me delete, aside from marketplace posts and associated messenger conversations. Used to buy and sell constantly on Craigslist for many years, now I haven't been able to successfully sell a single item in at least the last 2-3 years. Letgo was a decent one for a while, until the app got bought by, and then shut down by, OfferUp. And the OfferUp people are basically con artists (use shady methods of boosting the number of "active" listings, in order to artificially inflate the value of their company). It has been nearly impossible to sell, or even BUY anything on OfferUp, after several years of trying to make user of the app.

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