Any company you refuse to use?

[PK99]

I bought a Samsung TV, that had a Firmware issue that was known about by both JL and Samsung. I rejected the tv on the grounds that it was not as described , they refused to accept that firmware was part of the package. Took 6 months to get the service team out. Tv was taken away, no temp replacement offered. sad thing was it took the service team 48hrs to get the tv back to me, as it was a well known issue.

I find that surprising.

My experience:

I bought an all-in-one pc online as my local store (Kingston) did not have it in stock. Arrived a couple of days before Xmas. Promptly ate one of my set up CDs and refused to spit it out.
Over Xmas checked online and local store now had it in. Took faulty machine in early doors Boxing Day, tech recovered my CD and gave me a brand new machine from stock.

 

[Daddy Pig]

My arse.. .thats not company I want to keep especially the morning after a few ales...

 

[tyred]

McDonald's and KFC, mainly because their "food" tastes like deep fried Michelin World Tour.

 

[Drago]

McDonald's and KFC, mainly because their "food" tastes like deep fried Michelin World Tour.

Oh, so they've improved recently then?

 

[Slow But Determined]

Any pub that now refuses to serve a Chinese. For info a Chinese is a colloquial drink around Cheshire / North Wales also known as a Golden in and around Liverpool and a Mickey Mouse in the West Midlands.

 

[stephec]

Any pub that now refuses to serve a Chinese. For info a Chinese is a colloquial drink around Cheshire / North Wales also known as a Golden in and around Liverpool and a Mickey Mouse in the West Midlands.

To me a pint of golden would be half a bitter and half a lager?

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Appears few here body swerve corporations because of moral concerns.

The long list I have, which I couldn't be arsed to begin earlier in the thread, is probably 99% moral/value-based.

I would have said 100% but there must be some wee prick somewhere that's wound me up for no reason.

 

[lazyfatgit]

RBS. Got a right runaround trying to get access to an account and a new chequebook after a letter was mis delivered and returned to them by the recipient.
4 visits to different branches before problem got resolved. The branch where my accounts were held couldn't fix the problem within their system.
I was amazed how easy it was to move all accounts to another bank - they had a customer service specialist who handled all the DD and SO paperwork.

 

[Slow But Determined]

To me a pint of golden would be half a bitter and half a lager?

Spot on Stephen, bitter in first is my preference.

 

[gbb]

In my case, no-one I refuse outright to use but some I prefer to avoid.
Tesco. In a former job we used to supply them, their attitude to suppliers didn't appear to be one of a partnership but one of using any tactic they could to put you down, reduce prices, they simply appeared to be trying to Lord it over you all the time.

Amazon. Sick of their eternal attempts to force Prime on you, you only realise when you see yet ANOTHER amount of money they've tried to extract from you.

Apart from that I don't really bother avoiding anyone long term, every company can occasionally give bad service, you have to be realistic or you'd never use anyone again.

 

[Drago]

Henceforth I shall not be buying any more weapons from Saudi Arabian arms suppliers.

 

[JtB]

Anglian Windows because they completely messed up with our conservatory.
Our local village bakery because their bins are usually overflowing and I often see rats scurrying by not far from their back door which is wide open with racks of bread cooling.

 

[vickster]

Our local village bakery because their bins are usually overflowing and I often see rats scurrying by not far from their back door which is wide open with racks of bread cooling.

Eww sounds like one for environmental health

 

[Salty seadog]

Anglian Windows because they completely messed up with our conservatory.
Our local village bakery because their bins are usually overflowing and I often see rats scurrying by not far from their back door which is wide open with racks of bread cooling.

I lived in a place that was behind a chinese takeaway. my front door was down the side of the house, a sort of alley. one side was my front door and the other slightly raised was the back of the retaurant. I often saw ducks and chickens hanging from the wall on their side. I had 4 cats in that house...., I'm glad to say there were still 4 when I left but I'm sure they would have paid some attention to the fowel.

 

[Brains]

We maintain properties, hence we are regular employers of local trades, roofers, decorators, plumbers, builders and so on.
At any given moment we always have a few jobs on the go.
Knowing this, you would have thought that if you were a local trade the person, you really want to do a good job for is the local people that maintain multiple properties.

No so.

Plumbers are my particular bugbear.
We had one small company for many years, then then ripped us off over minor repairs. We dumped them.
We then got in a one man band, to repair a boiler that he had fitted and do an annual gas inspection.
Three months later the boiler broke down again, our man 'was too busy' to fix it, so we called up some other managers and got a reccomendation (they also warned us off our original man), long story sort, the new plumber went in, instantantly condemmed the boiler, and then started looking at the rest of the gas work, he was sending us live video of what he was finding, he cut off the gas at the mains before he would go any further. He had not seen such shoddy work in a long time (a gas hob plumbed in with garden hose, a gas fire sealed with gaffer tape, all with valid gas certificates)

We now have two reliable plumbing companies we use.