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“Never Again”: 30 Brands, Items, Stores And Restaurants People Banned From Their Lives
Interview With Expert
Building up a positive reputation is very difficult, but blunder after blunder can damage it. In a similar vein, it takes a lot of focused effort to turn people into loyal, returning customers… but losing them is possible if you’ve got the wrong strategy. And no business is completely immune to shocks to their profits if they consistently let their customers down.
Today, we’re looking at some of the biggest offenders in the business world, as shared by frustrated internet users in a viral thread on AskReddit. Scroll down to get a better understanding of how some brands, stores, restaurants, and companies earned their ‘never again’ moniker for these disappointed people.
Bored Panda wanted to learn about brand loyalty, including at what point businesses should get worried and start adjusting their strategies, as well as what issues they should prioritize. So, we got in touch with marketing psychology expert Matt Johnson, PhD, the host of the Human Nature and Psychology of Marketing blogs. He was kind enough to shed some light on our questions.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Neiman Marcus. I went there to buy a Prada bag for my mother. She had a knock off she loved, so I figured she’d appreciate the real thing.
I wear t-shirts to work, but this day it was at least a fancy one. It didn’t matter. The sales lady told me “It’s very expensive,” rolled her eyes and walked away.
So, I went next door to the actual Prada store and bought one.
I don’t need to be judged by an angry middle aged woman working retail, thank you very much.
Mike F 8 months ago
Upvote for AbFab reference! Patsy is my spirit animal.
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nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
If there is a Prada store next door, I'm not sure why anyone would bother with NM.
Barong 8 months ago
I’m surprised by this. No one should be treated this way for a simple t shirt. I have a client that is a billionaire or d**n near close to, that wears t shirts and jeans much of the time and is content to mow his own lawn and fix and clean things personally. He doesn’t look particularly wealthy. As for Neiman Marcus. We’ve had nothing but great experiences. Granted this was 20’years ago. My wife’s Chanel sunglasses has become scratched. We went to the sunglasses counter and looked at getting possible replacement. My wife found a pair she liked. The sales woman simply exchanged them and said “I hope you are more careful with these.” She made a customer for life.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
This made me think of the young salesboys in the men's department in Houston that wore obvious makeup in the early 80s.
"Brand loyalty, depending on the industry, can be remarkably resilient. Consumers often stick with familiar brands even when alternatives exist. This stickiness is rooted in habit, emotional attachment, and identity alignment," marketing psychology expert Johnson told Bored Panda in an email.
"So, when customers begin to abandon a brand en masse, it usually signals that something significant has gone wrong. Minor complaints or isolated incidents don’t typically warrant a strategic overhaul. But when dissatisfaction becomes systemic—declining product quality, perceived ethical breaches, poor customer service, or a major shift in brand values—loyalty erodes quickly."
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#2
We bought a flea medicine from Hartz to use on our cat and she became lethargic and didn't eat anything. We took her to the vet and they told us that they have been trying to get that medicine off the shelves because of how it affects animals. I was in a theater watching despicable me when my cat finally passed away. It sucked knowing that my cat is dead because of some money-hungry brand who doesn't care about the safety of the animals it gives its products to.
Nikole 8 months ago (edited)
Hartz is generally awful. Never buy that brand. Edit: I’ve been hearing this about Hartz for 15 years at the very least.
Pat Fisher 8 months ago
Closer to 30 years ago, our middle aged cat reacted severely to Hartz. My kids were still in middle school or high school and they graduated in 2000 and 2001
Load More Replies... Chicken Mitten 8 months ago
From the comments, it appears this is well known. I didn't know this. Thank you, Panda's, for educating me.
The Queen Of France 8 months ago (edited)
I had the same thing happen to my cat. She didn’t die fortunately but my vet took the manufacturer to task for saying that the product was safe for pets. I nearly killed her (the cat, not the vet).
🇺🇦 PrincessPatton 🇺🇦 8 months ago
WTF? How is it possible for a brand to get away with such things? And that it's still on the market and people are buying it? :O
*raspberry sound 8 months ago
I haven't used it since the 90's, I put it on my cat back then and he started yowling and racing around on his back, trying desperately to rub it off. Never again.
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
"I'm sorry if your dog went blind, but your gripe is with Hartz Mountain, not with me." The Simpsons knew back in 1995 (Two Dozen and One Greyhounds).
#3
Wal-Mart. Because of the everything.
BrownEyedGrrl 8 months ago
We live in a rural area. We are old. We are disabled. Walmart HAS put all of the smaller stores out of business. Walmart delivers to our house. Where are we supposed to shop?
Tamra 8 months ago (edited)
Wal-Mart has managed to drive out almost all other, smaller stores. Especially in rural areas, they are often the only game in town, which makes it really difficult to avoid them. I loathe Wal-Mart for various reasons (mostly for the appalling treatment of their employees), but they are often the only place people have access to.
JacPot 8 months ago
As a non-US person, what is the reasoning behind this? Google won't give a list and the people know more. I'm genuinely curious.
K Barnes 8 months ago
Walmart tends to put smaller local businesses out of business. They have access to cheaper goods because of their size and it's been said that (in the past, not sure about today) they priced even lower the first few years a location opens to really undercut existing local businesses, then increase them once they are the only option left. They pay poverty level wages and don't treat workers well and often those wages are subsidized by the state (tax dollars) through support services for low income people. Small local businesses tend to pay and treat workers better.They also have very poor quality items of dubious origin. Some people also take issue with the rich owners, which you could look up.
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Also Ansinfer 8 months ago
Yay! I'm so glad I'm not alone! Never been in one, never going to go in one!
Johnson, the creator of the Human Nature and Psychology of Marketing blogs, explained that businesses should become "seriously concerned" when their formerly loyal customers start to disengage publicly. Especially across multiple channels like reviews, social media, and direct feedback.
"The priority should be addressing issues that threaten the brand’s core promise—what customers believed they were buying into. For example, if a health-conscious brand starts using questionable ingredients, or a premium service cuts corners, the perceived betrayal can trigger lasting damage," he said.
"When multiple concerns arise, companies should triage: prioritize issues that impact trust and value perception, especially those coming from long-term customers or high-value segments. Strategic shifts should be driven by a clear pattern of eroded loyalty, not isolated noise. In other words, if your brand’s story is no longer believable to your most loyal fans, it’s time to rewrite the narrative."
#4
Nestle.
Tiny Dancer 8 months ago
So bad they have a page on Wikipedia for JUST their controversies over the years, imagine! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Nestle
geezeronthehill 8 months ago
Unfortunately very hard to avoid. They seem to have no competition in this food desert.
Keith Lancaster 8 months ago
Nestle are an awful company that deserves to be bancrupted. I could type on here for days explaining why people should avoid them.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
Amazon. They are one of the worst places to work. I know 3 people who had worked there. They said it was pure hell.
#5
Panera. They raised prices and shrank their portions a while ago. Not worth it anymore.
Val 8 months ago
I personally have never liked their food. I don't like hard bread? If that makes sense.
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
I agree with you 100%! I worked in a bakery for 14 years and know how bread should be made. For years, Sam's made and proofed their own doughs, pies, pastries, muffins, cakes, donuts, etc., plus years of making EVERYTHING from scratch when I was growing up. I'm not sure what they're doing to their food, but it's seriously off and the consistency sucks. People are comparing them to hospital food, so when Mercy OKC and Oklahoma Heart Hospital make better food then y'know they're fūcking something up.
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detective miller's hat 8 months ago
They're also lying about the number of calories in their foods. When I worked there, we found a binder full of the actual caloric values of everything in the manager's office. Some of the soups and sandwiches had nearly double the calories that they put on the menu.
George D 8 months ago
I still go there but, yeah. They did away with pumpkin muffins, bear claws, eggs over easy. You know, stuff EVERYONE likes. Even the staff were perplexed by these decisions.
Susie Elle 8 months ago
There's no Panera in my country but even I wouldn't know why you would want to get rid of pumpkin muffins!
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Comcast. A door-to-door salesman straight up lied to my dad, saying they had a four-DVR setup that would cost less than what we were paying AT&T. When the installation guy got there, he said that no, they didn't have a four-DVR setup, he was told to give us the standard two-DVR setup. Which was absolutely not something that would work in a house with six people with wildly different tastes in TV shows.
So my dad tells him never mind, we're sticking with AT&T then, but because the Comcast guy had already installed our new cable box, he couldn't take it back with him, so we had to mail it back to Comcast ourselves.
The kicker is, five years later Comcast tried to bill my parents for the cable box, saying we never sent it back. My parents insisted they did, and Comcast wanted the UPS receipt, which obviously we no longer had because it was five years ago and we hadn't heard anything from them before this. So my parents refused to pay, Comcast sent a collections company after us, and when my parents explained the situation to the collection company, they were like "those f*****s, we'll take care of this." That was, thankfully, the end of it.
Guy Lombardo 8 months ago
This is one of the worst companies to ever exist. Customer service is terrible, always having technical problems, and they live to rob you blind.
Sara Frazer 8 months ago (edited)
YES. Years ago when my family had a house fire, Comcast billed my mom for their modem that got ruined. My mom paid it, but months later, after we had lived in a hotel and our grandma's crowded house, we finally had insurance money and my mom was trying to get a new house built on her land. But the credit score came back saying there was one unpaid debt before she could be approved for the house...Comcast. for the modem, she had already paid for. They denied she had paid it, it "wasn't in their records" despite it showing up on her bank statement. She was so frustrated and we wanted a home so bad she paid it again, but like, how fúckin sleazy. A single mom with 3 kids and 1 grandkid who lost their house in a fire and you make her pay twice. Scum.
superfluous 8 months ago
I have had no major problems with Comcast, and the few customer service reps I have worked with have done their best and been polite.
JayWantsACat 8 months ago
Same here. Obviously they haven't always been this good and currently YMMV with them, of course. But I think people just default to calling them the worst.
Load More Replies... JayWantsACat 8 months ago
It's just my experience but I havent really had any issues with Comcast. It's a bit on the pricier side but I've been able to add and remove services on a whim and the customer service as been adequate, at worst. They have a well deserved reputation but I think they've gotten much better. Granted, the bottom floor for them was hell so any improvement is marked. But I think people, especially those who don't have actually have their services, just default to "Comcast is the worst".
detective miller's hat 8 months ago
Comcast is NOTORIOUS for claiming you never sent the cable box back. I had a friend in college who actually dragged his cousin--who was a notary--to the comcast drop-off place and made the guy behind the counter sign a statement saying he received the box.
trixiefly11 8 months ago
Cell phone companies that lie about whether they have reception at our house. We have had several companies tell us that they definitely have reception in our area or that they were going to have it soon and then never do.
As Investopedia notes, consumers tend to remember brands that reach them on an emotional level. Other important factors when it comes to brand recognition include exemplary customer service, exceeding customers' expectations, being seen as an expert in a niche, and using social media to draw attention.
Recently, Forbes looked at the most trusted companies in the United States, evaluating data about employee trust, customer trust, investor trust, and media sentiment.
At the time of writing, Forbes reports that the most trusted company in the US is Nvidia, followed by ServiceNow, KKR, S&P Global, and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). In sixth place is Vertex Pharmaceuticals, followed by Fortinet, Parsons, Boston Scientific, Lockheed Martin, and Apple.
#7
Olive Garden. First the meals got s****y and I could deal with it, but then the Alfredo sauce did too and that’s where I draw the line.
#8
I took my beater woods truck to a local tire shop for an alignment. They told me they couldn't align it because I had a sticky U-joint, and then charged me for and hour of labor because they had to "take the tie rods off." I argued because a) u-joints don't impact alignment and b) there was about an inch of grime on the castle nuts, so there's no way the tie rods came off. They brought out a manager who just made s**t up about how alignments work...I am a mechanical engineer. I think they thought they could get away with it because I am female. Nope, I filed a complaint with the state and they were fined for lying about service costs.
Scott Rackley 8 months ago
I'm guessing Firestone...or Midas. Both are known for this.
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ROSESARERED 8 months ago
I won't go to one of the local mechanics because after I just moved to the town I'm in I took it in for a service...they told me I need new brake pads. They had bern changed 2 months before, so I knew thst was a lie. They also damaged my driver's side window, which they denied. It no longer would go up completely, and had a long mark going down it, they had to ' break in' for dome reason. Sadly the same mechanics have the contract for the roadside assist company here...I don't trust them, and hope I never need to call them for emergency roadside assistance...I'd ask them to tow my car to my mechanic before trusting their greasy fingers ever again
#9
Is it me or every brand is in a process to reduce costs, making products and services of bad quality, losing the original magic, and even rising prices to the point where is scam to buy the product again?
George D 8 months ago
We're reaching that inflection point where if they raise prices any more the consumer will walk. So, shrinkflation, ingredients switch-outs, fewer options. We had a once awesome Indian buffet near us that has slowly but surely offered less options, going to cheaper meats and, I think, changing the recipes for their sauces because they don't taste the same. It's a sad realization of our economy, just like the ever escalating cost of healthcare. It is unyielding.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
Welcome to capitalism, unrestrained. Imagine, if you will, that we had social policies in place, ones that were democratically voted on, and we actually set rules to govern this sort of thing. We call that 'social democracy'. And it works, all over the world. But because Americans have been brainwashed into believing that 'everything that isn't capitalism is communism, and communism BAD', we can't actually have nice things.
B 8 months ago
Here's the main problem: companies just don't care. Thanks to a growing global population, there will always be someone willing to buy their product, even if they have a bad experience and don't ever do so again. I urge everyone reading this to buy the novel (it's a thriller) called 10:59 by N. R. Baker - it seriously highlights how bad things are about to get, based on documented facts.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I used to buy Hormel heat-and-eat meatloaf. It meatloaf filled the container. The last time I bought it, the meatloaf was a tiny blob in the middle of the container. I make my own now.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Didn't proofread my comment before posting. The meatloaf filled the container.
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Amanda Reinstatler 8 months ago
Today is more about pure belligerent corporate GREED. Inflation is just the excuse they blame it on.
Next up in terms of trustworthiness are Taylor Morrison, NASDAQ, FTI Consulting, Amgen, American Express, MSCI, Prologis, Visa, and Synopsys, clocking in at spot number 20.
Microsoft is in 33rd place, IBM is in 40th, Alphabet is in 101st, HP is in 110th, Coca-Cola is in 143rd, Nike is in 162nd, Disney is in 165th, the Home Depot is in 178th, and Delta is in 217th.
#10
Starbucks. I'm tired of average coffee being peddled off like it's some seriously gourmet s**t. Find a smaller chain, something regional. Or a locally owned shop where the owner works there and actually loves coffee. You'll get better service, better quality, better availability, and better clientele to share it with than the Burger King-esque customers at Starbucks.
Oh, and their f*****g hypocritical politics injection.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago
It's less than subpar. It's over-roasted hot garbage juice. Try it black, it's vile. All that sugar, milk or cream, and all those other sweeteners and flavors are used to cover up that horrible tasting "coffee"
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Shortstuff 8 months ago
Only had one coffee there. It was lukewarm, tastless, with canned whipped cream on top. Never again.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Their coffee is awful, but so is the coffee their competitors sell. What happened to the regular coffee you get at Denny's and restaurants in hotels?
Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
Their coffee is sometimes worse than the supermarket stuff while being 6x the price
#11
Wayfair. Delivered a wooden table that had a huge split on the side and was broken where you put the leaf to extend the table.
Got FOUR redeliveries and ever single time it was the EXACT same table with the same damage. Eventually got a full refund but did they seriously think that would work? Makes 0 sense to me.
Bonus: Ordered a bedroom set around the same time and paid for delivery and assembly. The "Assemblers" were 2/3 through the assembly and told me they couldn't finish because they couldn't understand the instructions.
Had them take all the stuff back and also got a refund.
Guy Lombardo 8 months ago
Purchased 2 lamps from there and they were damaged. If I wanted a refund on the pair which cost me $256 they would only give me $25 even though they were delivered damaged. I took replacement option and next set delivered was damaged and same for the third. I am now out of $225. I will NEVER order from them again
Immortal Jellyfish 8 months ago
I had a flooring company re-deliver the damage packs of flooring they came and uplifted twice. To be fair to them the actual customer service was excellent and I ended up with a full refund for the damage packs and replacements FOC. The call centre had excellent communication, it was clearly an issue with the warehouse/distribution centre they were using.
K Barnes 8 months ago
I've heard from many people that you really get what you pay for with Wayfair, and not in a good way.
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Val 8 months ago
Someone told me they're a gateway to human trafficking somehow? I didn't ask them to expand but it made me think twice about it.
Renegade 8 months ago
They're not a good company, but the trafficking thing is just nonsense.
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Nicole Jay 8 months ago
I bought a chair from Wayfair, and it showed up all jumbled up in a box with various torn boxes for “packing material” and the box was half asses taped shut. All of the reviews were so positive, so I tried to do a review of my experience and Wayfair wouldn’t publish it.
Grenelda Thurber 8 months ago
I ordered a $900, six foot tall wood bookcase from them, and it was delivered upside down. All the adjustable shelves and hardware for them were scattered inside the packaging. The molding on the top was splintered. There wasn't a single undamaged surface. I called customer surface to arrange a return and was told to fully unpack everything and send photos. CSR also said I needed to a get a box to return the bookshelf. A box. Big enough to contain a six foot tall wooden bookshelf. The CSR suggested that I might find one at a local hardware store and would not budge. The bookcase didn't come to me in a box, just some cardboard bumpers and clear wrapping to hold the cardboard in place. We managed to get the bumpers taped back on (sorta) and called it done. They use FedEx for their deliveries, and I've since heard there are issues with them as well. Whatever, I closed my account with them. I am done.
#12
Turbo Tax. Did my return, got a notice that my e-file needed to be corrected, logged back in to fix it and my return wasn’t there anymore. 6 hours on the phone with 3 tiers of tech support, each one trying exactly the same thing. Finally they were just trying random s**t, so I tried random s**t in parallel, managed to get to my return with the invoice number from paying for the service WITHOUT logging in. Tried to get them to understand that this was a Very Bad Thing that they should report to someone... and they told me they had no access to anyone technical and no way to submit bugs.
This from the company that lobbied to make it illegal for the government to offer tax filing service.
Marla Singer 8 months ago
Lobbying is at the heart of so many mystifying problems. Why does the govt behave in ways that are contrary to the public good? Lobbying efforts (corporations with private interests giving campaign money to law-makers to protect those interests) so often explains it.
Nimitz 8 months ago
The Government of Canada is shifting to an auto-file tax system since they already have your info and tax services just sync the information from the govt. website, add your specific deductions and receipts etc, then return it to the govt. But TurboTax and other s**t software companies are running advertisements fearmongering and saying things like "the government is going to tell you what you owe, be afraid blah blah blah." The reality being the system will remain as it is, with almost 0 changes, except the companies that do almost nothing will no longer get almost $330 million for doing effectively nothing besides clicking a button
Sally-Ann 8 months ago
The ATO (Australian Tax Office) has been doing this for years.
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Sara Frazer 8 months ago
Yeah I stopped using them a few years ago after they got rid of the free option. Try freetaxusa .com!
Amanda Reinstatler 8 months ago
F**K TURBO TAX. "free filings" my a*s. Yeah its free to file - if you have NEVER had a job or a paycheck.
Thatkamloopsguy 8 months ago
A few years ago I would buy their box program and for three years in a row, as soon I downloaded it into my laptop it would come with a trojan.
Meanwhile, according to Newsweek, the most trustworthy companies around the world include Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Sony, Schneider Electric, JB Hi-Fi, Legrand, Lowe’s, Siemens, Whirlpool, and Murata Manufacturing.
These companies are the ones that customers, investors, and employees trust the most in terms of advertising, communication, fair treatment of workers, and how they’re portrayed on social media.
#13
Purina.
RIGHT NOW AS I'M TYPING THIS, They have friskies canned cat food (at least the seafood ones) on the shelf that are tainted and toxic.
It killed one of our cats and nearly killed another. Symptoms include vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and kidney shutdown.
They are lying, claiming the food is fine, and it's dated through October of 2020, so rather than pull it all so they can get the poison ones off the shelves, they are just leaving it. Because that's cheaper.
They paid my vet bills without my even having a necropsy done. They know there's a problem, and they don't care. Complain enough and they'll cut you a check, but that's not going to bring your cat back.
F**K PURINA.
Cee Cee 8 months ago
Know what's in pet food. How? Check the All About Dog Food website. Does cat food as well. They analyse the composition in great detail. Purina comes out very poorly.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
Cats.com has excellent reviews on the kitty side, as well.
Load More Replies... Nikki Gross 8 months ago
My oldest cat Tiger, suddenly became allergic to seafood a year ago at age 14 and I had to rush him to the vet. You don't realize how limited the selections are until you have to avoid EVERYTHING that has some type of seafood in it. Tiger has to have wet food everyday, since I'm on a budget I think I spend as much money on cat food as I do for food for me. But, he's my little old man and 15 years old now, so I'll eat ramen and bologna if it keeps him healthy.
detective miller's hat 8 months ago
This is why I spend the extra $ on actual decent pet food.
K Barnes 8 months ago
We lost our dog to tainted dogfood, killed thousands across the country but no class action suit ever happened. It was Loblaws canned dog food, the cheap stuff (when I was a teen and my parents bought it). I swore I would never again feed a pet anything less than the highest quality. I still miss that sweet little pup over 20 years later, I did not get enough time with her.
Savannah Newman 8 months ago
After a dog died horribly of cancer I decided I would make my own the next time around. Fresh dog food is difficult to travel with so I bought some fresh pet while on the road. Once I opened it I realized it is just Vienna sausage for dogs. It was awful. My dog food has all the right stuff, is healthy and she loooves it. Eff kibble!
Cee Cee 8 months ago
Nothing wrong with good quality kibble. Better for plaque control too. My dogs are fed Millie's Wolfheart kibble. One has just turned 11, another will be 10 in a few months. Both in fine fettle.
Load More Replies... Nikole 8 months ago
It’s totally not this person’s fault, obviously, but don’t feed your animals junk food!
superfluous 8 months ago
Why are they allowed to sell it? You buy it with the expectation of it MINIMALLY not harming your pet. Big corp sees it's less expensive to k**l a living being than to do the right thing is the problem. (Also, I up voted your negative votes, which shouldn't be doled out for disagreeing, unless it is over how much of a slimeball trump is - there is no question on that, he is)
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Zero Costa 8 months ago
nevermind this post is 6 years old. jesus christ bp
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1800Flowers. F**k them. They waited several days after I placed an order for Mothers day to tell me that they wouldn't be able to fulfill the order. They waited until the day before, putting me in a bad position.
Now I google my Moms ZIP, add flowers and have a few choices. I call the local shops directly andq1 1800flowers is cut out of the process.
Sue Phillips 8 months ago
I had the same thing happen to me for Mother's Day a couple of years ago. Paid extra for faster delivery, flowers showed up dead, on the day after Mother's Day. When I attempted to email the company to excoriate them, I discovered that I had ordered the flowers from a different company with a logo that is almost identical to 1800flowers.com's. The colors and shape of the logos and website are identical. It seems this company has been scammed by a lot of people. I now only order from local florists who have a brick and mortar store so there's somewhere for me to complain in person.
Shortstuff 8 months ago
I never have flowers delivered, as had too many bad experiences. Instead, I send money to a friend for flowers and her petrol, and she buys them and takes to my mother, and loves to see the surprise on my mums face.
Beth Wheeler 8 months ago
That's crazy because I think they ship them through either UPS or FedEx
Stephanie Did It 8 months ago
No, they contract with local florists, and tell them to create the arrangements from preselected designs. If the order is messed up, find out which florist did it and avoid them.
Load More Replies... Mike F 8 months ago
Such a scam. When my mom was alive I attempted to send her flowers for mothers day. I ordered 10 days ahead and was assured that the local florist would have no problem getting the arrangement to her on time. They lied. Instead of arriving early (as I assumed and ok'd) they were 3 days ago late and sent wilted and nearly dead roses that I paid dearly for.
#15
A hospital in my area. My brother and his wife just recently had a baby there. My first nephew and their first child. He was born two weeks premature by scheduled c-section, but you couldn’t tell since he was more than 9 pounds when he came out. If he went full term he could have been more than 11 pounds.
Anyways, he arrives and everything is going well, his blood sugar was a little low, but the doctors claimed it got better. A day later and he begins twitching every once in a while. My sister in law asks the pediatrician and the nurse why and they said that it was fine. The day after that and the twitching increased and he began doing it every other minute. My brother and his wife panic and ask the doctor but the doctor checks his blood quickly and says nothing is wrong but if they’re still worried about it they should wait to go to the pediatrician on Monday (3 days later).
As soon as they leave the hospital despite the baby still twitching they turn around and ask for the doctor to please look one more time. He refuses and tells them that they can’t look anymore because they are discharged from the hospital.
Refusing to believe that their baby was okay, my brother and his wife took him to a different hospital’s emergency room. The doctor there took one look at the baby’s blood and immediately prepared a bottle of formula for him. His blood sugar was 36. If you aren’t familiar with blood sugar then just know that sugar that low can be deadly. My sister in law’s milk hasn’t come in yet, she didn’t know that, and the pediatrician at the first hospital only gave the baby 2 ounces of formula in 2 days. He baby was very close to going into shock. If they took the doctors advice and waited until Monday that baby would have been dead before reaching home.
Edit: My sister in law was checked many times for gestational diabetes and she didn’t have it at any point. The hospital is in Pennsylvania but I won’t name which one at least until my brother and sister in law decide to sue or not. I and most of my family agree that they should sue but they’re much more focused on their new baby at the moment. The baby is fine now and getting fed plenty at home with a mixture of both breast milk and formula.
superfluous 8 months ago
This sounds unbelievable - not just one doctor, but multiple doctors and the nurse? It almost sounds deliberate? How the f**k can that slip by so many people????? Argh! Healthcare in america - you may have insurance that pays but you can't trust the hospital??
Of course, the ranking of trustworthy companies can change very dramatically over the coming years and decades. Some brands can make comebacks while other trusted household names end up sidelined.
(If you’re reading this in the far-flung future, hey, how are you doing, how are things going in year 20XX? Who are the most trusted and reviled brands in your day and age?)
#16
Spirit airlines. Never again. F**k them.
Flight from Vegas got canceled. They don’t even bother trying to put you on another flight, not only that you have to pay extra for the next flight available. I told them they can go f**k themselves and I want a refund, the customer service person told me he can refund me spirit credit, that’s when I lost it. After enough b******g, he gave me my money back to my credit card and I bought a flight on delta.
Edit: thanks for the silver kind person. After my experience I made it a point to go on several review sites and made a PSA to never fly spirit again. This was one of many incidents I have had to deal with them, this one just broke me because I was flying back from Vegas, I can only handle Vegas for 2 nights, after that I want the f**k outta there, having to stay there another night was not something I wanted to do. Also it was not weather related as they told me, No other flights into detroit that day were cancelled, I checked, I even told that to the customer service agent, he shrugged it off.
Addy 8 months ago
FÛCK Frontier!! Their gate agents get commissions for pulling people out of line to make them pay to check their carry-on because it's "too big". I got on a flight out of MSP with a layover in DEN and got on that plane just fine. Gate agent in DEN wouldn't let me board because my carry-on bag was "too big". When I stuffed it in their tiny bag dimension thing to show it fit, she almost wouldn't let me on the plane because of my "attitude". I'll never fly Frontier again.
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Lee Gilliland 8 months ago
If something is bought on a credit card and the company refuses to refund, go to the credit card company. They MUST refund it, and many cards pull their cards out of businesses with too many complaints.
Selden Deemer 8 months ago
I flew SPIRIT exactly once, Atlanta to Philadelphia. The flight was so bad that I called them to cancel my return flight. They would have charged more than the cost. When I asked what would happen if I just didn't show up, they said I would lose my travel points. Gladly. SPIRIT is the worst airline I have ever flown.
Ahnjunwan 8 months ago
Pretty much same experience with malaysia airlines, cancelled my flight, left me stranded, never informed me let alone got me another flight. No customer service available because it was sunday. Had to make a new booking for the next day, pay almost as much as the return flight before because i had to go to work. Still running after ,y money for almost 3 years. Never again
urbeinghunted 25 8 months ago
Same with Jetstar from Australia (though this incident is more of a pilot problem than an airline one) - we were flying Qantas from Brisbane to Cairns and it took forever because the Jetstar plane was in the wrong gate and wouldn't move even though it was totally obvious because they caused a traffic jam with people and planes etc.
Fabulous chocolate cookie 8 months ago
Same with Lufthansa. My connecting flight was 1 hour delayed, but we still got refused to board the connecting flight because the first flight was 1 minute delayed from their schedule, while the second plane was standing there at the gate for an hour after we got refused to board. We had to get reboarded on another flight and got told we were allowed to claim back our money. All our claims got refused by an external Luftansa servicedesk for randomized reasons.
#17
BP. Because their greed caused the largest oil spill in American history.
> BP has denied pressuring the Horizon’s crew to cut corners, but its plans for completing the well kept changing, often in ways that saved time but increased risk.
Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago
It was horrible. All the way from Lithuania to the Gulf of Identity Crisis. Gulf-67ef7...259fdc.jpg 
IWB 8 months ago
My dad worked for BP for over 20 years (in Scotland) everytime an American came over to work with him and the team they all knew they would be trying to find something to change to make themselves look great! Trying to get rid of safety features during the refining process etc even though they were a legal requirement. When the oil spill happened my dad just said "This doesn't surprise me in the slightest!"
#18
Dell laptops. One of the only times I actually sprang for the full deal warranty. About 3 months into owning it, I lifted the lid only to have the plastic bezel around the monitor separate entirely from the lid, all the stupid little plastic clips broken. Figured okay, no problem. Full warranty, easy fix. After contacting support, I was told plain and simple that my warranty does not cover ANY plastic part. It was a bloody Dell, the entire laptop was plastic.
Nimitz 8 months ago
When I was 20 I did what all truly stupid 20 year olds did at the time and bought a high-end Dell gaming PC. It bricked itself in 3 months because of a s**t motherboard design (d**n thing had a visible crack). They jerked me around for months on repairs so eventually I just stopped paying them. For some reason it never went to collections
Nathan Lewis 8 months ago
my 7 year old Dell laptop still works perfectly. only issue I ever had was the HDD died but that was an easy fix.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
HDD dying is a big issue, especially in the first seven years.
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urbeinghunted 25 8 months ago
My school-issued laptops are Dell and they are a nightmare to use! Every time somebody "breaks" something they never give the warranty and say it was deliberate etc. F**k them
Mike F 8 months ago
Nope. Toshiba or Lenovo for me. I have a very old Toshiba laptop (think Vista old) that is built like a tank. It is anything but lightweight but I added an SSD and stuffed it with memory then put Linux Mint on it and it's a bangin laptop again. My Lenovo took an "an unofficial" win 11 upgrade from win 10 and works great.
What are some stores, restaurants, and companies that you’ve boycotted, dear Pandas? How come? Did you decide to avoid these brands because of one particular incident, or was it due to a gradual loss in reputation?
On the flip side, what are some businesses that you could say that you proudly support with your hard-earned cash? Let us know in the comments.
#19
Chili's.
I don't know how this even happens. But I was served fried chicken that was cold and literally had ice on it.
Edit:
To anyone reading this later on, I want you to know that Chili's PR staff has contacted me trying to smooth things over.
Yeah right.
Chili's served me frozen food and I'd rather trash them forever than be sweettalked with a gift card.
George D 8 months ago (edited)
Honestly, been to Chilis many times and never had this happen. Places are only as good as the staff that runs them.
Howl's sleeping castle 8 months ago
Same. And it's actually my favourite. Their paradise pie is in the top two in my favourite desserts list (other is cheesecake)
Load More Replies... Val 8 months ago
My best friend of 25 years has been a manager at Chili's for about 10 years. Guys, the food is microwaved or broiled. Ribs are oven baked- that's a crime- and the steaks get microwaved before they go on the grill. They use water to make it sound like the fajitas are fresh but really, the food just came out of the microwave. Have you ever had a steak fajita cooked medium or even medium rare there? No, because the microwave doesn't have that option.
Shortstuff 8 months ago
Have you ever had eggs Benny with spinach....which was a frozen cube?? The new kitchen helper who did the garnishes didn't know the spinach needed to be thawed and heated. 🤔
Andie Barnhart 8 months ago
Have been to Chili's several times to subpar food and service. Never again. Restaurants seem to forget that there is plenty of competition out there that can and will replace them. They take fan favorite items off menu, and then assume customers will deal. Guess what? Customers are the one's that keep the lights on...... Restaurant corporate fat cats need to remember that~
#20
F*****g At&t it's one thing after another with these a******s. They've been taking 60$ a month from my checking account for the last seven months for a prepaid phone that I don't have they can't tell me why or take me off auto draft because I don't have a phone number to look up the phone that i dont own.
Just spent almost an hour at the bank trying to dispute this s**t. It's just the most recent in a long list of fuckery caused by At&t.
Those twats.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago
It's a pain, but sometimes the only way to stop these types of erroneous auto-payments is to shut that account down and re-establish another one, sometimes with another bank entirely.
Marla Singer 8 months ago
I have resorted to this. Getting a new account at the same bank isn't too hard, and will solve the problem for sure.
Load More Replies... Just me... 8 months ago
NEVER allow a company access to your bank accounts. It's just a nightmare trying to correct an error WHEN it occurs.
Amanda Reinstatler 8 months ago
All the telecommunications companies are greedy lying TWATS. T-Mobile charged me $28 /mo for 2 YEARS for my phone that I OWN. F**K THEM ALL
Nimitz 8 months ago
Telus did the same thing to me. I never bought one of their phones, but one day they started sending bills to my house in my full name for a phone and plan that I never signed up for. They fought me for years on the charges even though they couldn't produce ANY signed document
Mike F 8 months ago
I bought my first cell phone through AT&T MANY years ago. I got aggravated when they continually forced me into another phone and plan (newer technology) every 2 years. I finally told them to stuff it. Their cable/internet reliability is abysmal. Tin cans and string is a better alternative.
#21
Tim Hortons. Quality is gone.
They no longer have in store bakeries, the coffee blend is god awful, the menu is huge, the speed of service is horrible and the way the owners are treated by the franchise is just disgusting.
They need to stop trying to do everything and get back to focusing on what made them great.
Nils Skirnir 8 months ago
Now owned by Restaurant Brands Unt’l, a predominantly US owned corporation
R Dennis 8 months ago
The reason: They planned to move to Canada, but then Congress took away the tax loophole so the value of the deal was lost. But as someone who was contracted by RBI to assess and consult with stores, many of them were much nastier before the company was bought. Several franchisees had their stores taken away because the stores were gross.
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Jocelyn Webster 8 months ago
1. No longer Canadian 2. No longer fresh food 3. Cusyiner service is horrid. I haven't been able to get my order correct in years.
urbeinghunted 25 8 months ago
I haven't had breakfast yet and I'm dyyyyiiinnngggg....
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It's why I prefer family-owned stuff as opposed to bigger franchises.
Sam Trudeau 8 months ago
Still Canadian at heart. Better than McDonalds or those other painted deep fryers
CG 8 months ago
It's sort of like McDonald's in the US, or Starbucks. There's pretty much always a Tim Hortons nearby, and prices are generally decent. I don't order from there often, but I'm speaking from the voice of experience, as a Canadian who's lived there for nearly 30 years.
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Macy’s. Got a credit card through them to buy a suit. My parents offered to pay the card off as a birthday present. Cue months of them calling me 5+ times a day, asking where the payment, that had already been made, was. Harassing me to make more and larger payments. When it was finally payed off, they then tacked on a “completed payment fee” and never sent a bill, so the whole d**n thing started all over. I was genuinely about to file a lawsuit over harassment or something.
It was unbelievable, because I would tell one person the payment was made, and then get 4 more calls the same day asking the same thing. Then rinse and repeat tomorrow.
DeoManus Argentem 8 months ago
This sounds like an issue of the bank that issued the card, not Macy's fault. When I was young and worked at Circuit City (a now defunct big box electronics store, think Best Buy) in customer service, I had a guy come up to me thrusting his Circuit City credit card (issued by Chase bank) bill in my face demanding I lower his interest rate (dude, I'm in college making $8.50/hour) - pretty crazy, it was 198%! Pretty sure that's not legal anymore, but he did agree to the terms... but that's the bank, bro, not some kid at the service desk.
Marla Singer 8 months ago
They sell credit cards with sky-hight interest rates to young people who don't know better yet.
#23
Applebee's. First time I ever got food poisoning from a restaurant.
R Dennis 8 months ago
*Crapplebee's (Unless a microwaved steak is your thing) 470145159_...2e5b0c.jpg 
Michael Largey 8 months ago
Horrible. You ordered steak, and they served you sole.
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Sherry Allison 8 months ago
I'm suffering the last remnants of food poisoning last night. Went with friends and their young kids to a Chinese / American buffet joint. While we were waiting for the hubby to join us there were dozens of people coming and going so I assumed the food must be good. It all tasted good until the bite off a huge shrimp. I knew immediately something was wrong with it and only had one big bite off that extra large shrimp. Five minutes later I went to the bathroom after breaking out in a sweat. Went back to our table and two minutes later was up going towards the bathroom again. I thankfully grabbed two napkins on the way to hold in front of my mouth because I could feel it coming. I have never vomited in a restaurant before, not in the bathroom but between two cases of food and the napkins didn't hold it all. I had to stop on my drive home in a grocery store parking lot to throw up for another ten minutes then a couple more times when I got home. My tummy is a little tender today.
Peter Bear 8 months ago
The only place I've ever actually had a bug cooked into my food. And when I confronted the manager about it, politely and quietly, they went full deer-in-headlights and had no idea what to do. I simply said 'everything else was fine, you will comp this single steak, and we will not ever come back'. And that is what happened.
turk 8 months ago (edited)
I was on crutches for an ankle I had surgery on for six weeks. The day I had my cast removed and was off the crutches, I went to an Applebee's across the street from my doctor. I was on my second beer and got off the bar stool to use the bathroom and stumbled a bit. Didn't fall down, just caught my weak foot on the corner of the stool. When I got back to the bar, I was told by some tween shift manager that I was cut off for being too drunk. Funny kind of, but I've always held a grudge.
#24
UPS. Worked in the warehouse for 2 whole days. Im unloading the Semis of packages when my boss tells me to hurry up "If it breaks, it breaks. Not our problem" i lost all respect for them that day and quit at the end of my shift.
George D 8 months ago (edited)
Had a signature required doc sent my way (very important) but I wasn't home at the time. No worries, it'll come back tomorrow and I'll be here for that. Nothing. Went to tracking and found that it was rerouted to Texas (I'm east coast). OK, fine. I get it a week later and it's in tatters. The edge is torn open and there is no doc inside. UPS guy still wants me to sign for it. Took photos of it and said "no". We had to cancel the document and start all over because of this. Finally get it one month later. Apparently one of the machines it goes through ripped the entire side of the flat and the doc fell out. Never use UPS. Fedex only.
Cerridwn d'Wyse 8 months ago
I have had FedEx leave signature required checks outside of a building management office at 9:00 at night when they near the office closed at 5:00
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Tom De Paul 8 months ago
They're all (and only) about speed. When I had to send my desktop from Denver to Phoenix, I used FedEx ground. No problems, no damage.
Sina 8 months ago
Unfortunately, this is a largely universal tragic reality in logistics. All companies do that to an extend. They don't care about the integrity of the packages they deliver. I've been in a few terminals where they handle packages, I see the same thing. They throw them around, they smush them in cages when the cages are already stuffed, and "fragile" stickers don't make a difference. And unfortunately, it's probably because the staff working there doesn't get paid enough to care, and those who do care have their ethical spirits crushed within a week of working a job like this, when they try to do a good respectful job and get told off by supervisors for not doing it fast enough.
#25
Walmart, i've never witnessed such terrible situational awareness than in the people that shop at Walmart. I always leave the place angry and I don't think I've been to one in a couple years. The prices are also not that great, you can most likely find everything they have at other places for a lower price if you watch for deals and sales.
Dove Bradshaw 8 months ago
I bought a microwave in a Oklahoma WalMart, brought it home, found a used cell phone case in it and the cord had been cut, took it and got a refund. Went back the next day and re bought a microwave, IT WAS THE SAME DARN microwave!!!! Never again WalMart for me!!!!
#26
A bar I went to on my 25th birthday. I got there first and opened a tab to get my first couple of drinks before my friends showed up and started buying for me. At the end of the night I went to get my bill, which should have been under $20. Instead, I got a single piece of paper with the total of $85. It did not come with an itemized slip. (EDIT: For the people who can't gather this from context, that was unusual. All the times I'd gone to the bar before, I got itemized receipts. All of my friends that night got itemized receipts when they closed out.) I spent 20 minutes, on my birthday, at the bar, calling out the bartender's name, asking for an itemized receipt, while he pretended he could neither see nor hear me.
I went home and reached out to management and explained the story to them, including how long I tried to get his attention. Her reply: "If you thought there was an issue with your receipt, you should have asked the bartender to explain it to you."
Never again.
Case anyone cares, it's Penn Social in DC.
EDIT: Since this seems to be coming up a lot: This is America, so not "chip and pin". They won't serve you unless they first swipe your credit card. I could not simply "leave without paying", it was going to be charged to me no matter what. My experience with disputing charges is that it's not super convenient, so I was really hoping to be able to deal with this at the bar without having to do that.
So please don't be one of the 337 people who have told me "I would have just left."
#27
Frontier internet. They're one of the sh**tiest ISP's I've ever had, I will never go back, no matter how cheap it is.
Cerridwn d'Wyse 8 months ago
For me the worst was spectrum they lied so many times after my father died
Ashtophet’sRevenge 8 months ago
I had them once because it was through my apartment complex they were the worst…
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geezeronthehill 8 months ago
They have disappeared from this area. I thought they were out of business.
#28
Wayfair. Purchased a $1000 sectional couch that was delivered with damaged upholstery. They refused to let me return it and instead offered me 10% off my next purchase. Yeah..... Never using that discount code.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
All these posts about what people went thru is the number one reason I don't order anything off the internet. I want to be able to see, in person, what I'm buying.
Renegade 8 months ago
Same, how do you know how it feels or is it even comfortable?
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I bought an engine from AutoZone for a vehicle I owned. They had a vendor build the engine, and it was supposed to ship to my house. I waited three weeks for it to arrive, but it never did. I contacted their store, was told that it hadn't shipped yet and was coming via FedEx freight. I kept up with the tracking # but couldn't get anywhere with it. I kept calling back every couple of days to see what was going on, and no one could figure it out. I finally managed to find out that it had shipped via another company (RL freight), and had been delivered to somewhere else. It was like pulling teeth to get a refund on an engine I never received. It took another two weeks to get the refund.
I won't buy a soda from AutoZone now.
#30
Golden Corral. That place is a festering pile of s**t.
nicholas nolan 8 months ago
My man! Came to fly the Rifftrax flag, and was not disappointed to see I was late. You must be from Harlem.
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Any and all buffet restaurants are festering piles of s**t. This is common knowledge.
#31
AT&T.
I was told that canceling my cable and internet services with them would cost me $50 to not return the modem and cable boxes. I didn’t care, as I would’ve had to mail them in and didn’t want to mess with the hassle, so I didn’t. 6 months later I find a $487 charge on my MasterCard and it was from AT&T. It was $150 per piece of equipment, and a $37 service charge (you know, charging me money for their hassle of having to charge me money). I asked if I returned the equipment would they rescind the charges, they said yes, I returned the equipment and they refused to take off the charge. I confirmed with them that they received the equipment and they said yes they did, but wouldn’t rescind the charges after all. I fought it up their chain of command as much as possible and even tried to fight it through MasterCard but they couldn’t do anything about it either.
TL;DR AT&T screwed me out of $487, and lied to me, so f**k them.
#32
Bank of America. They would always run all my bills before my direct deposit and then charge me up to 500 dollars in overdraft fees. After they did this to me three months in a row I closed out my bank account and will never use them again.
Have never had this problem with the bank I have been with for 15 years now.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago
Wells Fargo did this to me awhile back with my student loan check. They held it for weeks (despite being issued by the US Department of Education) and bounced checks for my tuition, rent, bills, etc. Got a manager to reverse all the BS overdraft fees and then closed my account...NEVER bank with Wells Fargo for any reason whatsoever.
Sue Phillips 8 months ago
They did this to me too. Nice, pick on the people living paycheck to paycheck.
Debby Keir 8 months ago
Surely you can choose the date for direct debits to come out? We've always put them 3 days after monthly payday.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I've been using Capital One since the 80s and never had a problem. They have no overdraft fees.
#33
Well, not me but my dad. General Motors. He used to work at a car factory in Alameda County, California that was a joint venture between GM and Toyota. When the Great Recession got bad, the big automakers were bailed out. At about this time, GM pulled out of the plant. Then when Toyota pulled out and the plant shut down in 2010, they gave all of their employees a severance package. GM didn't, though. Just pulled out and left. So according to Dad, GM is now on his "s**t list."
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I suspect Toyota's severance package was required by their contract with the workers.
#34
Expedia. They'll take your money (actually, more than they said they would), if you complain, they'll tell you there's literally nothing they can do about it (a lie), then put you on virtually never ending hold hoping you'll give up.
turk 8 months ago
I booked a cruise with Expedia specifically using my Mastercard because they had a promotion for $300 to spend on the cruise using that card. Called ahead and asked how to get the money and was told I had to go to the customer service on the boat. Did that and they claimed I had to call the Expedia customer service. Essentially, it was a "he said, she said" between Norwegian Cruise Line and Expedia both saying the other was supposed to provide me the money to spend on the boat. Never got it.
#35
Cancun, a little Mexican restaurant in my area. They had a bunch of tacos on their menu, all of which listed cheese and white sauce as ingredients. The fish tacos didn't, so I ordered them and didn't bother specifying that I didn't want cheese or white sauce. Well, they came out smothered in both and I couldn't eat them, so I sent them back. The waiter came out and made a huge show of interrogating my husband about why "she" (meaning me, sitting right there across the f*****g table, fully capable of speaking for myself) sent back the food, and told my husband that it wasn't the restaurant's fault that "she" didn't just assume that the tacos would obviously come covered in ingredients the menu didn't mention.
When I said that he should be talking to me, the one with the problem, he said that he was only comfortable talking with "the one who would be paying the bill." I asked to speak to the manager, and as he was leaving to get him, I very clearly heard him call me a b***h on his way out. The manager backed up his sexist p***k of a server, so we left without paying, have never gone back, and have told others not to go. F**k that place.
#36
Lyft. They recently charged me a damage fee for damages I could not have plausibly caused. I sent statements explaining how it couldn’t have been me. They sent back a standardized statement and didn’t give me any additional information. There is no phone line to talk to a representative. I sent them multiple follow up emails, which they never responded to.
Now I have to write a statement for my credit card company to dispute the charge.
#37
If I see something is being shipped by OnTrac, I'll cancel. The three times they were the delivery company from Amazon, they lost one package completely and tried to say it wasn't their fault. The second package was also deemed lost but then showed up on my door step something like six weeks later. The third time it sat on "shipping label created" for a week and I just contacted Amazon and canceled the package. You don't find a lot of positive reviews out there and any positive ones you do find seem like they were written by the company via a fake account.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago
I agree totally with OP except for that "shipping label created" one. That's on the seller, they created the label and failed to give the package to the shipper. That being said, OnTrac is absolutely horrible at doing their job. One package they "delivered" was hidden over on neighbor's property. One was lost and totally not their fault if you believe them. One was delivered so mangled that I thought it was an Ace Ventura prank. Another one was "out for delivery" three days in a row. Then "delivery delayed" later in the day with no reason whatsoever given. They decided to actually do their job on the fourth day. If any of my orders from any company are being delivered by OnTrac, I will cancel and go with another vendor.
superfluous 8 months ago
They definitely get points from me for not throwing the package at my doorstep, unlike USPS and UPS. They also don't use super loud trucks in my neighborhood, unlike FedEx.
Mike F 8 months ago
USPS is becoming the worst. One would think that with the looming threat of "privatization" they would at least TRY to get their act together. The last 18-24 months have been a nightmare. My last package shipped from SC to Indianapolis to Cincinnati BACK to Indianapolis then to San Francisco then Sacramento then Oakland BACK to Indianapolis then to Grand Rapids (at this point at least it's in Michigan) and finally to my house. It shipped on 3/24, I finally received it 4/2. Over Christmas it was worse, 10 days in one facility! I've never (personally) had an issue with UPS, but...
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#38
Kitchen Aid and Cuisinart. Both have gone really downhill and I was enormously disappointed in food processors from both.
Also Dyson. Cheap plastic housing that breaks continuously.
I'm rather domestic, obs.
B 8 months ago
Ah, back when things were built to last. And oh, massive surprise, these days when things break they can't be repaired - you have to buy a completely new one! Cha-ching!
Load More Replies... trixiefly11 8 months ago
My Cuisinart is 16 years old and never had a problem with it. But all appliances suck these days. We gave up on dishwashers. We used to have one about 20 years ago that was 15 years old when we got it and it was a tank. We moved and the house we moved to had a dishwasher and it sucked so we replaced it, and then replaced that one and then again. Finally we just stopped getting a dishwasher, none of them ever got the dishes clean and the last one would grow mold inside the dishwasher.
BrownEyedGrrl 8 months ago
I got a "reward" from a credit card company. It's a Cuisinart microwave. I thought "Cool! A great brand." Worst microwave ever.
#39
Apple, I used to be really into back in the beginning of high school but I could never go back. I don't want a device where it's OS treats you like a child and locks down any form a customization and limits you to their proprietary store if you want to download anything.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
I have an Android. The phone i have now is probably 6 years old. I see no reason to switch. I've been very satisfied with a Droid.
CG 8 months ago
Same here. I've been using an Android phone since 2020, and aside from some minor issues with it, I'd still prefer it to an iPhone.
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#40
I run the front desk at a hotel and they are an absolute nightmare. They also straight up lie to the guests and to the hotels constantly. Truly one of the most shady companies I've ever dealt with.
They purposely try and deceive people who don't know any better into thinking that they are dealing with the hotel directly. They create adds in such a way that when people google the hotel's phone number, a number to Expedia comes up, and if the customer asks if the are speaking directly with the hotel front desk they will say yes.
There have been countless times where guests have called to cancel their reservation that was booked through Expedia. I inform them that they will have to contact Expedia directly, since they pre-paid through them, but that it will be no issue because the hotel does not charge a penalty fee for cancellation. An expedia representative will call the hotel with the guest on hold and ask about getting it cancelled. I tell them it's no problem. They ask if we will be charging a penalty fee, and I tell them no. All is right and good, right? NOPE.
I then get a call back from the guest who is upset, saying that the Expedia representative told them they could not be refunded because of the fee charged by the hotels cancellation policy. Taking the guests money and blaming it on the hotel, and keeping all of the profit. This has happened countless times.
I once had a guest while at the front desk call about cancelling 3 days out of a multiple day reservation, as she had to leave earlier than expected. They pulled the same b******t with her, not knowing that she was at the front desk.
After me telling the representative that the cancellation is fine and we will not be charging any penalties, they get back on the phone with her and blatantly lie.
I asked her to hand her phone to me and that was quite a surprise for the representative. Who said that "there must have been a misunderstanding".
Papa 8 months ago
The hotel is not the problem. The problem is with Expedia. OP failed to clarify that until the second and third paragraphs.
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#41
PayPal because their customer service team is comprised of actual chimps.
R Dennis 8 months ago
I had someone access my Office Depot account and purchase an expensive camera (iirc) and order it delivered to an address on the other side of the country. I tried to get it stopped and Office Depot just shrugged as I watched it head towards the address. I called PayPal and the charge was reversed before it even arrived at the delivery location. Any issue I've ever had, they addressed quickly and in my favor... I run any purchase I can through them.
#42
Applebees.
Used to be my go-to restaurant for fairly cheap, tastey food, and half-price apps. But the quality of the servers there has always been pretty bad. Then one time, we got a server who made us wait for 20 minutes just to take our drink order on a night with like 6 or 7 people in the whole place. Then took another 25 minutes to bring us our appetizers. Then disappeared altogether. At some point a manager came over and we were like, "Hey, what the f**k is going on?" The manager was pretty much useless in resolving the issue with our waiter. We never even ordered entrees. We ended up leaving without entrees and left no tip.
Jorge, if you're out there, you can go straight to hell.
Tried going to an Applebees last month after not going for 4 or 5 years, walked in, waited 3 minutes for the hostess to greet us, she never did. We left and went to Chicago Pizza Kitchen. Never again.
trixiefly11 8 months ago
We went to a sushi restaurant once and when the server came and asked if we wanted to order we were not ready yet. That server then went away and waited over 20 minutes to come back. He was just standing talking to another customer, passing the time of day. We didn't want to be rude so kept trying to make eye contact so he would know we were ready. Even had our menu's down so he would know we were ready.
*raspberry sound 8 months ago
I'm not a huge fan of national franchise dinner places, but I was in the mood for quick seafood recently and went to red lobster. Waited 45 minutes for our drinks with less than four people in the dining room, the rest was awful, took forever, and cost around 200 for me and my fiancé. Mealy a*s steaks, yuck!
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
Yup, there's a reason that Red Lobster went bankrupt.
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#43
Lularoe. I only bought stuff to help out a friend that was trying to make ends meet. Luckily she quit after about a year. Bought 3 pairs of leggings over the course of the year and none of them made it the year without holes. $25 each. Never again.
Also, I felt gross buying from an MLM, but like I said, just supporting a friend.
CG 8 months ago (edited)
Dunno why you got downvoted, so I upvoted you to make it even. Multi Level Marketing, like Novel Idesa said, is basically just a fancy term for a pyramid scheme, or a scam, as Dyna said.
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$25 each, that sounds super cheap, must have been a long time ago. I thought their stuff was over $100 ea
#44
(Super girly probably won’t be seen) Ulta. Every time I go into this store without my make up on, none of the staff help me or even glance my way. When I have makeup on they make sure to ask me if I need help. I do know they aren’t trying to associate with me because I’ve walked in right before a group of young, full faced girls and the two staff at the door went to them first.
I have decided after the last time I went it would be the last.
#45
I will never go to my local Benihana again after they removed the glory hole and installed a bathroom attendent. Even when the workers went on strike, the Benihana manager wouldn't budge and even replaced the stall walls with an impossible to drill through material. There's a Benihana 15 minutes further away that still has their glory hole so I expect my local Benihana to shut down within the next few months.
Barbara Burns 8 months ago
How in the ever-loving tongue-in-cheek did this entire piece make it through the BP censors? ROFL
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago
Someone must not have explained to the moronic BP censors what a glory hole is...
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Sarah 8 months ago (edited)
CAn someone explain what this is all abt aand what the restaurant in question is?
Wombat 8 months ago
No idea about Benihana (not American), but a glory hole is a hole in the dividing wall between 2 toilet stalls so that people can, ahem, engage in various sexual activities. Usually between men I believe. The post is a joke.
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#46
Kat von D cause she's a racist motherf*cker.
SkyyCaramba 8 months ago
I really wanted this Collab she made with Billie Joe Armstrong (I think her weird beliefs are why it's not sold) then I found out about all her s**t
#47
Victoria's secret. Their bras used to fit like a dream. They have definitely taken some short cuts while expanding. Their items are all gimmicky now and it's hard to find a good fit.
Barbara Burns 8 months ago
Try Third Love. As a bosomy woman, their Perfect Coverage bra is a dream. Expensive, but worth every cent. Uh oh, I sound old. Like my name is Ethel. Skirrrt.
Amanda Fondaumiere 8 months ago
Oh i was wondering about them! Thanks for the tip.
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Verizon.
When I called to cancel because I was switching to AT&T prepaid, they insisted that I had the pricing of my new plan wrong because it couldn't be so cheap. I pushed back and ultimately got the rep to cancel my plan (or so she said).
Two months later I get a bill for my Verizon plan and they claimed I wasn't eligible to get it refunded. She had actually just put my account on hold for a week, so on my end it looked like it had been canceled.
I had to report them to the BBB to get my money back and they will never get my money again.
#49
State Farm.
I have heard stories of how great they were with other people's claims, that other customers were well taken care of, and I feel a twinge of envy.
Several months before my middle child was born, our water heater broke and leaked all over the hall tile and under the wall in the kitchen. We sopped it up with towels and called our agent. She had remediation workers there a short time later, fans on the carpet, checking the drywall - all the standard stuff. The adjuster met with us and went over all of the stuff that would need replacing, carpet and tile. Our tile was contiguous, so it all went, it was ugly orange tile, so we were thrilled to get some new tile of a different color.
We selected a contractor and he did his assessment. He told us that we would also need our kitchen cabinets replaced because the water had soaked up the sides and it only looked ok because the toe kick was hardboard, but the sides were particle board and the water would have irreparably damaged the hidden material.
This was early June.
The adjuster said hell no, The contractor got angry, the adjuster got angry and 4 MONTHS LATER the adjuster finally agreed to have a 3rd party inspector come and take a look. During this pissing contest, I asked my agent to intervene, she said that what the adjuster says, goes. The independent inspector comes, I take him to the kitchen, he pulls the fridge out and says, after less than 3 minutes of being over, "Yep, those need replacing".
Now I have a contractor performing demo work while I have a 2 week-old newborn in the house. The work was completed to our satisfaction in 2 weeks time. Once the work was done, we cancelled our State Farm policies and moved auto to Progressive and home to Allstate. Our agent was interested then, came to the house and brought over a swag bag. Almost 20 years later, all that is left from the swag bag is a well-used State Farm pot-holder that I refuse to toss as it serves as a reminder of our ordeal.
I chuckle at the State Farm mailers I get every 2 months or so as I chuck them into the recycle bin.
R Dennis 8 months ago
Someone hit my car and I had a $500 deductible. I was broke and didn't have that kind of money to just give away. (But I carried full coverage as peace of mind.) I was told that my State Farm agent were going to file a "mini tort" lawsuit and have their insurance reimburse me... apparently, it was a simple/common action. I never heard back from them, from being on hold until it hung up to being lied to my face.
#50
Burger King. You messed with your french fry recipe in 1998 and I still haven't forgiven you. F**k you "King".
#51
Door Dash.
Sue User 8 months ago
I have used door dash once. My car was in shop and they were having trouble getting the parts. I needed groceries and I see the local dollar general dies doir dash. I order at 5:30 pm. At 10pm, i get a notice they found a driver , who is 13 miles away from the store. I messaged saying dont bother they are closed. Sge said sge gad to go , so she could take a picture, so she coukd take a picture abd at least get paid something. No way to tip her. Called door dash the next morning and they convinced me not to cancel, they had a driver. At noon, someone shows up. She was from a town 20 miles away and shopped at her local DG. I tipped 40 cash, in top of the in app tip. They treat the workers so bad. Now i stock up on boxed milk.
#52
Levi's
For 20 years I could order Levi's online without trying them on. I just needed to know my size and knew the'd fit. I'd order a few pairs every few years.
Then sometime in the past 10 years QA went off a cliff and of the last 6 pair I ordered, all were of a different cut, two too tight in the groin, one too short, and of the three that fit, two developed quarter sized holes in the groin/rear pocket area within 6 months of normal wear.
Wranglers seem a bit better nowadays, but not much.
Meanwhile, I still have one of my first pairs of Levi's that I wear at home because they're a bit too big for me now (lost weight). Still in acceptable condition.
#53
(Warning, disgusting story ahead)
I went to Dickeys Barbecue pit, their food isn't amazing but I was craving southern food and my suburban town in California doesn't have many options. So me and my girlfriend buy some sandwiches and have them for dinner, they're cold and taste like salty sweat. The next day I have uncontrollably s******g liquid s**t and vomiting multiple times an hour. If I was alone I would have gone to the emergency room but my dads a nurse and was there. I vomited something like 20 times in the whole day and kept dry heaving afterwards. The diarrhea came so fast and uncontrolled that it ruined multiple pairs of underwear and a rug that was by the toilet (Why my dad has rugs in the bathroom I don't know but I s**t on it when bent over the toilet). It took only a day for me to feel better and I was already eating heavy foods again, but lo and behold guess who comes over to see me well again and s***s herself in my bathroom? My girlfriend, the only other person who ate at Dickeys. So I spent the rest of the day, after having just s**t and vomited myself to death, helping my girlfriend when she was s******g and vomiting. I think we're closer to each other after that experience.
TL;DR: Ate at Dickeys Barbecue pit, sh**ted and vomited ruining clothes and a rug. GF came over and s**t and vomited too.
Val 8 months ago
Yeah...fast food BBQ is not the place to go. If they don't have a smoker, they're not a BBQ restaurant.
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
As a Southerner, I 100% agree with your statement, any BBQ place that doesn't have a smoker is an abomination.
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#54
GameStop.
Trying to sell me opened “display” copies of games I know for a f*****g fact employees were able to take home and play. Once you take a quality seal off of something it is no longer new.
“This is the last copy we have, it’s opened and the disc was removed and put into a sleeve with my grubby a*s neckbeard fingers but I promise it’s new!”
4 times in a row this happened which is how I know they are lying about not having any other copies.
F**k you in the a*s GameStop and I hope gaming goes purely digital one day and I can watch you fold.
CG 8 months ago
Can't say I've ever had this experience with a GameStop in the 20 some odd years I purchased from them, but my guess is that OP is either lying, or hiding certain details. But that last line is the worst thing they could have said. The problem with digital only games is that the games can be pulled from digital storefronts, and in some cases, if the license for digital sales get removed, you can't download the game unless you purchased it. And the only way some of these games can be played is either through piracy, purchasing it digitally before the license expires (which isn't always a surefire fix), or get a physical copy. Physical copies help with game preservation.
CG 8 months ago
Adding on to this. The reason why I say purchasing it digitally before the license expires isn't a surefire fix is that some shady developers have tried to remove access to games with the licenses expiring. Ubisoft got in serious hot water with their older titles, where people who even owned and downloaded the games couldn't play it after a while, but changed their minds only after major backlash. And that's excluding the issue of online games being unplayable after online servers shut down. Doesn't matter if the game is physical or digital, if it requires a server to play, and they shut down, you're SOL.
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Popeyes. Bit into a chicken tender from them to find it completely raw on the inside.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 8 months ago (edited)
Or even just a singular employee problem at just that one restaurant. I have always had excellent service and food quality at every Popeyes that I have eaten at all over the US over 20+ years.
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Midas. I got a coupon for a $20 oil change, tire rotation, and inspection from the grocery store, so I decided to go and use it before taking a road trip. A few weeks after the oil change and everything, I started to notice a wet spot in my parking space when my car wasn't there, and it kept growing, and never drying. I took my car into the dealership because it was still under its limited warranty, and yep, it was an oil leak, whoever changed my oil at Midas had stripped the plug. Dealership patched it for free, and it held for a while, but years later I needed to shell out for a new oil pan, and it was a costly repair.
Served me right for cheating on the trusted family-owned shop next door that's never f****d me over. The one time they made a mistake, they owned up to it and made it right, for free, as soon as they could.
Oh, and the one time I went to Valvoline, the guy went off on me for having a f****d up oil plug, so that's made me not want to go there again, even though I probably should give them another shot because their hours are really good and they didn't actually cause any damage.
nottheactualphoto 8 months ago
If you mean "Valvoline Instant Oil Change," I've been happy with them. But I'll bet it varies from one location to the next.
Ria C. 8 months ago
I'm glad they have worked out for you and stay with the one you like and pick a favorite tech if possible. I've been privy to some of the lawsuits they have been served and the damages that have occurred like mentioned above and worse.
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Tony's Pizza Palace (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). September 26, 1986 was the day I buried my infant son. He was 11 months old and died from complications due to being born 3 months premature (his twin brother is healthy and got married 3.5 years ago).
After returning from the burial ceremony to the funeral home we went out to our cars and found fliers tucked under the windshield wipers: "Having a family get-together? Why not have it at Tony's Pizza Palace? Ask about our group discounts"
**Edit:** I thought I should add this... Tony's happens to be one block away from the funeral home, three blocks from the second biggest hospital and about ten blocks away from the second biggest shopping mall in the city; all of which are in a straight line. I figure some 17 year old kid, working part time for Tony's was given a pile of fliers and asked to put them on cars at the mall. The kid, not thinking, saw all the cars and probably started at the funeral home, then went to the hospital parking lots and was probably out of fliers before he even got to the mall. I seriously doubt anyone in management (or perhaps I hope that nobody) at Tony's was aware that this happened. But it happened on a day that I won't forget and I still haven't gotten past it.
#58
I worked for a *day* at Abercrombie and Fitch Kids. They told me that we had to say "Hey Guys, how's it goin?" as customers entered and if we didn't, we were subject to write ups because if the customer ended up being a secret shopper, we'd end up getting points off if we didn't say those exact words. We also had to spritz the place every half hour with that horrific cologne that I can only imagine S*x Panther to smell like. I refuse to ever shop at their stores again, though it helps that I'm almost 30 and was never a California surfer.
#59
Spirit Airlines, at some point I expect them to start charging you for oxygen in order to breathe on their flights.
The amount of money you save isn't worth the minimalist flight experience you get. Other airlines might be at the slighest bit more expensive for a flight, but say with Southwest you get free bags, United you get free TV/Movies to watch, and so on which overall makes the travel day more enjoyable in the grand scheme of things. Spirit is like flying in a hollowed out tin can in the sky.
PS: I get it, some people dont care about in flight experiences and just want to get somewhere by plane.
#60
Used to be a health inspector.
In my first year a lot of my old favorite restaurants were ruined for me, but none so bad as the discount sushi place my college bestie and I used to frequent.
They had roaches BAD. In my time at the health department I never saw them worse than in that kitchen. We got calls about the roaches at least twice a month, and every time we went they were back with a vengeance. They were closed for them multiple times, but just never kept up with the pest control and cleaning necessary to get rid of them.
They were also dying tilapia red and selling it as red snapper on their menu. This is pretty common around here, but it's super illegal because it's literal false advertising. Fun fact: some people are allergic to tilapia. Not sure I want to be around when that restaurant owner finds that out.
They had hundreds of cardboard boxes stacked outside their back door, plus a bunch of old equipment they weren't using. This added to the roach problem and any day it could turn into a rodent problem. One time I drive by and they had animal cages back there, too. I don't wanna know that story...
Add to that: I'm pretty sure the employees are all indentured servants or victims of human trafficking. They all show up in the same beat up white van every day and work a 12+ hour shift. The owner is unkind to them and they don't respect him. He says he can trust them to do their jobs, but was sketchy when we said to fire them and hire employees who will. We never had proof, but it was always upsetting and struck me as off.
He tried to bribe me and my coworkers multiple times, too. I'm not a health inspector anymore but he still tries to give me free food or money when he sees me. He opened a new restaurant and I didn't know it was his, so and friend and I went to go check it out. I was told that appetisers were free for me only. Then I saw him in the back. We had to leave.
Never again. It's too sketchy and too likely to get me sick.
Sarah 8 months ago
I’ve heard to be mindful of spellings in menu . I don’t know how much truth but here it is.. if a menu spells something ‘wrong’. E.g. cheez instead of cheese. They are not being quirky . It’s deliberate because it isn’t cheese- just processed rubbish so they legally can’t call it Cheese
#61
Wolf cola. Let me explain, first of all boka haram has adopted them as their official beverage of choice. As if that wasn’t enough (it was for me and my wife) the VP of worldwide distribution gets on LIVE TV and says he doesn’t like dogs? It’s a sinking ship I don’t see it lasting more than a few more months.
#62
Papa Johns. I know there's a lot of situations where people will get unlucky and get food poisoning on one single incident and swear it off and be like "oh that place is awful, never again" when really they would be fine going back there but one time in college my mom arranged a little valentine's day surprise by sending a pizza and some soda to me on campus. I was all excited to have valentine's day with my at-the-time girlfriend. Have a little free pizza, go out to a movie, have a little s*x on an extra long twin dorm bed.
Instead I had some free pizza and spent the night puking my brains out. Never again.
Nikki Gross 8 months ago
I can't stand Papa Johns, there crust and pizza sauce is absolutely disgusting. We ALWAYS order from the Marco's Pizza close to my house and have never had a bad experience and that's been our go-to for years.
turk 8 months ago
I've been loyal to Marco's since I drove up to my local franchiseand saw that they had a sign in their window supporting my steel mill union in contract talks. Never did find out who in my union had given them the sign, since I lived a half hour away from the plant. And for fast food pie, it's really not bad.
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United Airlines.
This was at least 10 years ago: Was flying from I-don't-remember-where to Phoenix as a leg on my journey. The plane was overstuffed and hot, the speakers were playing ads for United services non-stop, the flight attendants were going up and down the aisles trying to get people to sign up for credit cards. Couldn't rest, couldn't be left alone, couldn't concentrate on my book. Got out of that hell-tube and was walking to my next connection and I was accosted several different times by MORE United employees in the terminal trying to get me to sign up for their stupid-a*s credit card.
Jenna Jerome 8 months ago
I'll never fly United after I booked my vacation 6 months ahead of time, and about a month prior, they changed the flight to and from so significantly that it reduced my vacation by a full 24 hours without any wiggle room or partial refund. Their only offer to "help" was to email customer service. An email address that did not exist.
#64
Sony. Which bit? All of it.
I was a big VAIO and camera user; I bought a new one every year, until I realised two things: firstly, there was zero support after warranty. Secondly, the things expired 366 days after purchase. Thirdly, installing driver updates that didn't actually come from the Sony website invalidated the warranty, plus Sony didn't do driver updates.
Finally, a Sony CD anti-copy scheme basically rooted and then killed my computer.
So, screw Sony. Since then, I've also bumped into them on a professional level, and it's just the same: they hate you as a consumer, they hate you as a business partner, and they hate other Sony departments.
The famous Sony multiwaveband radios, of course, were never designed or made by Sony so they're OK.
#65
JDMRacingMotors... Gave me a damaged motor and claimed a compression test was the only way to test the engine and said it passed. Barely held on in one cylinder. To make matters worse, if you put coolant in where it ought to go, it would come out of the oil pan. Made a few calls and had email exchanges with their "mechanics" and was informed coolant and oil touch regularly and that is how it cools the oil. Wrong on so many levels. Never got my money back either so I ended up using the good parts from the exterior to rebuild my old engine.
#66
Volkswagon. I bought a brand new Golf from them, and waited to be notified that it had been delivered. After waiting a month and having heard nothing, I rang the dealer and was told that the saleswoman who had served me had left the day after I placed the order and the guy who had picked up her workload hadn't done anything with it. They promised me that they'd expedite the order. Three weeks later, I finally get my new car, and I'm very happy with it.
The next week I get an automated phone call asking me to complete a sales survey, one of those "How do you rate our service from 1 to 5 if 1 is very good and 5 is very poor." I marked them down because I'd had a crappy service. The next day I had the new sales guy on the phone shouting at me because my poor mark had got him called into the manager's office.
Volkswagon: Good cars, bloody terrible customer service.
superfluous 8 months ago
So the new sales guy, who knew what had happened, called the customer to YELL at them? That guy is not gonna last as a salesman. IF he felt the need to call so strongly he couldn't resist, he should have been empathizing with the customer and promising it was not normal and NEXT time they bought a car with them would be an exemplary experience. And apologizing. And maybe throwing in a couple of free oil changes.
#67
I went to Walmart at like 1 in the morning and there was a middle aged man and a maybe 17 or 18 year old guy literally fist fighting over a bag of lays ships. Someone later came over to break it up I guess because the both walked out with no chips. Now I don’t go to Walmart past 12.
#68
I've told this before, but I'll do it again for s***s and giggles.
I will never eat at Arby's again.
Once upon a time, at a Treasure Coast Florida Arby's, I decide I'm hungry and snag myself a nice, messy Arby-Q sandwich. Every time I ate them, I always lamented how they'd be better with a slightly toasted bun.
Well, I make my order, pay, sit down and take a bite. My fervorous hunger is rewarded by a resounding crunch! They toasted my bun! While still chewing, I pull my burger away and look it over. There is not a slight bit of tanning in bun and now that I hold it and analyze it, it doesn't feel remotely stiff like a toasted bun would.
As I sat there, food still in my mouth, a wave of horror came over me and prompted me to open uncap the bun.
I saw the largest [Palmetto Bug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_woods_cockroach) I'd seen in quite some time... or half of it at least.
Now, I'm a good person, at least I feel I can be more often than not. But at that moment of mind-fuckery mixed in with a serving of disgust and a side of 'why me?', I snapped. I rushed towards the cashier stations and winged the burger at the closest wall/barrier I could see, spat the food all over their floors and cussed them up one side and down the other.
I've not set foot in an Arby's since then and I now have a vicious hatred for any kind of 'wet bread' texture that has ruined quite a few meal types for me (I can't even dunk f*****g cookies in milk!!!)
Never again.
Historyherstory (old guy) 8 months ago
I know the Arby's in question and certainly know the size of a palmetto bug. Some should have license plates and be forced to use weigh stations due to size. Did you try adding some horsey sauce?
#69
AMC. I understand the concept of wanting people to pay for "a-list priority access," However, the management is so poor that the kids working are grossly understaffed. Lines to buy food are about a 30 minute wait without paying $19.95 a month because they allow roughly 3-4 or so a-list members before one normal movie-goer.
#70
Blimpies subs. I eat out a lot for work but when you give me the ultra s***s I'm done. I'm talking pressure washer intensity of liquid coming out every 15 minutes for two days straight. The second time it happened was the nail in the toilet.
#71
Lakme, an Indian cosmetics brand which sells overpriced trash. Most of their products don't even match an average Indian woman's skin tone.
What do you think ?
Carl Roberts 8 months ago (edited)
6 year old Reddit thread that Jonas likely copy/pasted from Ebaums World or Cheezburger. Because that's what most of these BP "journalists" do. Browse other websites and copy their content.
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James016 8 months ago
I wont every go to Dreams the bed people, ordered a sofa bed from them, it never showed up. Kept chasing, there was always some excuse. So I cancelled, has head office call me saying they will have to me in a week and I would get 10% off and some other care products. I say OK. 8 days later it hasn't arrived. I call the guy back, remind him that he had a week and that I want to cancel the order and have my money refunded. Skip forward a couple of weeks and I am on a work trip abroad. I get 7 phone calls from them to say my bed is ready. Each phone call is me telling with ever increasing anger that I cancelled it weeks ago. Mention it to my parents just as an off the cuff thing. I get another call from my dad saying he went down to the shop where I ordered the sofa bed to find out what's what. Turned out they never processed the cancellation. He threatened them with legal action unless the gave him the refund right there. They did.
JoNo 8 months ago
Amex. I used to work business internet tech support and Amex had a WFH dept (when WFH was rare and wifi was new and most computers did not have wireless cards). This guy let me know over and over again that he worked for Amex. He screamed at me for 20 mins because I could not get him a 20 foot ethernet cable. We didn't have 20 foot ethernet cables to send him, just a 6 ft cable, which, in his case, was not long enough. The d****e probably made 10x more than me and could have easily bought a 20 cable and solved his problem. But it's easier to scream at the person on the phone. I vowed never to have anything to do with that company.
James016 8 months ago
Another company I wont ever buy from again is Pottery Barn Kids and their parent company. Ordered a table and 4 chairs for my son. Only 2 chairs turned up. Had a back and forth with them as they were claiming all 4 chairs were delivered. After some time they say they can deliver the chairs but I would have to wait 4 months. I said no. Then I spent 2 months chasing for my refund. Ended up calling them daily to demand where it was. The CS person scheduled a call with a manager for me to discuss. That never happened. Kept calling until I got the refund. The one good thing is that the refunded me for the table and 4 chairs instead of just the missing 2. Even better was that they refunded at the full price rather than the 50% sale price I paid.
CG 8 months ago
Back when I used to drink, I ordered from a service called Dial A Bottle once in 2020. I placed my order on a Friday, and they said that it would be delivered the following day, which was fine with me. Saturday comes and goes, and nothing. I call back on Sunday asking what's the delay, and they said they had no available drivers to deliver it on Saturday, and they promised me it would come in on Sunday, which it didn't. I only got it after work on Monday, and they overcharged me. One and done.
Carl Roberts 8 months ago (edited)
6 year old Reddit thread that Jonas likely copy/pasted from Ebaums World or Cheezburger. Because that's what most of these BP "journalists" do. Browse other websites and copy their content.
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I wont every go to Dreams the bed people, ordered a sofa bed from them, it never showed up. Kept chasing, there was always some excuse. So I cancelled, has head office call me saying they will have to me in a week and I would get 10% off and some other care products. I say OK. 8 days later it hasn't arrived. I call the guy back, remind him that he had a week and that I want to cancel the order and have my money refunded. Skip forward a couple of weeks and I am on a work trip abroad. I get 7 phone calls from them to say my bed is ready. Each phone call is me telling with ever increasing anger that I cancelled it weeks ago. Mention it to my parents just as an off the cuff thing. I get another call from my dad saying he went down to the shop where I ordered the sofa bed to find out what's what. Turned out they never processed the cancellation. He threatened them with legal action unless the gave him the refund right there. They did.
JoNo 8 months ago
Amex. I used to work business internet tech support and Amex had a WFH dept (when WFH was rare and wifi was new and most computers did not have wireless cards). This guy let me know over and over again that he worked for Amex. He screamed at me for 20 mins because I could not get him a 20 foot ethernet cable. We didn't have 20 foot ethernet cables to send him, just a 6 ft cable, which, in his case, was not long enough. The d****e probably made 10x more than me and could have easily bought a 20 cable and solved his problem. But it's easier to scream at the person on the phone. I vowed never to have anything to do with that company.
James016 8 months ago
Another company I wont ever buy from again is Pottery Barn Kids and their parent company. Ordered a table and 4 chairs for my son. Only 2 chairs turned up. Had a back and forth with them as they were claiming all 4 chairs were delivered. After some time they say they can deliver the chairs but I would have to wait 4 months. I said no. Then I spent 2 months chasing for my refund. Ended up calling them daily to demand where it was. The CS person scheduled a call with a manager for me to discuss. That never happened. Kept calling until I got the refund. The one good thing is that the refunded me for the table and 4 chairs instead of just the missing 2. Even better was that they refunded at the full price rather than the 50% sale price I paid.
CG 8 months ago
Back when I used to drink, I ordered from a service called Dial A Bottle once in 2020. I placed my order on a Friday, and they said that it would be delivered the following day, which was fine with me. Saturday comes and goes, and nothing. I call back on Sunday asking what's the delay, and they said they had no available drivers to deliver it on Saturday, and they promised me it would come in on Sunday, which it didn't. I only got it after work on Monday, and they overcharged me. One and done.
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