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What's your list of banned brands?

What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don’t keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don’t make it there anyway. So I’m asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.

On the flip side, what’s the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

Nemo ,

Coke. Assassinating union leaders is not something I can stomache.

black0ut ,
@black0ut@pawb.social avatar

CocaCola did what?? Why didn’t I know that? Guess I’m a pepsi guy now, wow.

Supervisor194 ,
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world avatar

Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty car rental. Also Budget, but for different reasons.

Never use Dollar, Hertz or Thrifty under any circumstances unless you want to be fucked. Never prepay with Budget unless you want to be fucked.

__init__ ,

Can confirm, got fucked by Hertz last time I rented a car. Who’s your go to?

Supervisor194 ,
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world avatar

I truly do not know. I was using Budget, my truck was in the shop and two days’ rental was going to be $142. Two hours after reserving it my mechanic tells me he’s going to have me done today - so I cancel the reservation.

Because I chose “pay now” rather than “pay later”, I’m charged a $150 cancellation fee on a $142 rental (the fee posted on the website - $50 - is not for “prepaid” “same day” cancellations - not that the website told me this anywhere obvious, of course).

So I literally would have done better financially to drive the fucking thing around for two days for no good reason.

Protesting to customer service gets me a resounding “go fuck yourself.”

I’m now open to suggestions, I was using Budget because they had the best prices of what remained to me, but never again.

__init__ ,

Damn. I’d have tried a chargeback, especially if their site is incorrect or misleading (idk how recently this was). It’s damn near impossible to see who actually has the best prices because you can’t tell what anything really costs until they tack on all the horse shit fees after returning the car.

hperrin ,

I avoid Nemix RAM, because the first time I bought a bunch of sticks from them, they had an 18% failure rate. I paid to ship the bad sticks back, and they sent me more bad sticks. Nemix said they worked fine, so I sent them the Memtest screenshot with all the errors. They didn’t want to pay shipping to replace them again, so I just returned them and got some Micron RAM, and it’s been working perfectly.

Zagorath ,
@Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

Samsung. For a bunch of reasons, but I think the main starter of it was when I learnt this story.

Amazon. I don’t think I need to explain why on this site.

Obviously both of these are near impossible to avoid completely. Samsung makes the internals of far more products than they put their name on, and AWS runs a big percentage of the web. But I avoid their store, Prime, and Audible.

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Completely agree on both points. I actually use a Samsung phone, and it’s been nothing but a privacy nightmare. I’m planning to switch as soon as I’ve saved up enough to afford it.

Yeah, Amazon is a mess. I personally avoid anything even tangentially related to them. I’ve noticed that they tend to be lower quality with worse privacy than the alternatives, and their only benefit is price. Even then, Audible is a ripoff on a massive scale.

Aurenkin ,

Holy shit I hadn’t heard that story, that makes my blood boil. I would have contacted my embassy and turned that shit into an international incident. Also isn’t paying for someone’s flight in and refusing to let them fly back home some kind of trafficking charge?

Anyway, I guess it’s easy for me to say because I could at worst afford to pay for my flight home in a pinch.

andrewta ,

Hyundai . i will never buy another one again. ever.

seats are hard as rocks. they break down way to fast. the rear view mirror is set way to low in the window creating a safety hazard for looking forward. it needs to be set much higher on the window. (so i have to look up a little to see the mirror… so f’ing what?!) get the damned thing higher so it doesn’t block my view when i try to look front and right of the car.

that’s just a few of my annoyances with that car. i’m done with that company.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

☝️Note - only applicable in North America

They have virtually zero consumer protection laws so companies can get away with selling utter crap at inflated prices, and so obviously, they do.

Samsung home appliances, Hyundai and Kia cars, TVs with adverts built in (lol) are just a couple of examples of good quality products that have specific models that they only sell in the US because they can get away with it

Perfectly fine to buy them elsewhere

DirigibleProtein ,

Crowdstrike
Microsoft

marketsnodsbury ,

Walmart and Sam’s Club.

You know you’re probably dealing with the baddies when the Criticism and Controversy section of your main article on Wikipedia grows to the point where it links to another Criticism of Walmart main article.

pr06lefs ,

Tesla. Elon is proving to be a consummate billionaire scumbag and I don’t want to be associated with him.

KittenBiscuits , (edited )

Jimmy John’s

The owner has been photographed with big game “trophies” of elephants and a leopard.

TW: deceased animals

Snopes fact check: true

This guy pisses me off so much. Hunting like this (where it’s private land, the staff do all the work of finding you a prize, & they basically point you at the endangered animal when it’s time to pull the trigger) is so obscene, grotesque, unnecessary, and self-fellating. Fuck this dude in particular.

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Completely inexcusable. How people can get away with this kind of behaviour is beyond me.

punkcoder ,
@punkcoder@lemmy.world avatar

chik-fil-a…

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Huh, haven’t heard that one before. What did they do?

I’ve never been to one, so continuing that isn’t much of a bother to me anyway

Chozo ,

The chain's owners regularly donate to anti-LGBT organizations. They used to do it through company donations, but after being called out for it they stopped donating through the CFA corporation, but still donate privately to the same organizations.

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Good enough for me, I’ll avoid them in the future.

TheBigBrother ,

Apple

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Relatable. I’m in a pretty Apple heavy area, so I’m in the minority in my dislike of anything Apple. At least they are easy to avoid, with how obvious they make their branding.

owenfromcanada ,
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Obligatory: fuck Nestle

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Fair enough. They’re so big I need an app just to keep track of if something’s made by them or not.

eatham ,
@eatham@aussie.zone avatar

Which app? Is it on f-droid?

SethranKada OP ,
@SethranKada@lemmy.ca avatar

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear with my reply. I haven’t actually found an app that does this kind of thing very well, just yet. My reply was more in the line of “I wish I had an app to do this, because searching the internet takes forever”.

Some brief searching came up nowhere when I went looking a few hours ago. I did find two apps on Google Play that seemed like they might work, but both had their own blend of issues, and neither was on f-droid, unfortunately. They were “No Thanks” and “Boycott X”, if you want to try them out.

Sterile_Technique ,
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Don_Dickle ,

Late to the apparent party but Phillip Morris . They own a shitton of food and pot licences.

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