Any company you refuse to use?

[ianrauk]

Just find it cheap and nasty. I did my first ever shop in a Lidl the other day and probably won't be going back there either. I only went in to take advantage of a branded dog food offer and didn't buy anything else. I also don't like the scatter gun way everything is arranged in these two shops with that big jumble sale bit in the middle and no signs showing which aisle has what in it.

Fairy muff

 

[simonali]

Is that Aldi's washing up liquid?

 

[lane]

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.

Interesting. RBS have been astoundingly unethical even by banking standards but I remain a long term customer due to inertia. Maybe time to take action.

 

[Drago]

I too refuse to use RBS. I was with them, but their cash machine refused to pay me in groats, and the cashier didn't write on vellum ledgers, so I binned them off right quick.

 

[Freds Dad]

Any company owned by Phil 'wandering hands' Green.

I'm sure all "his" companies are owned by Mrs Green who is based in the tax haven of Monaco.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I guess as I'm car free, just about any car company. Or petrol station.
I fear I must one day use a cheap airline to the UK, but I'm trying not to.
No newspapers, even German ones. If I want someone's opinion I'll ask them, not pay them to pretend it's fact and throw adverts at me.
Twitter, Facebook Watsapp, etc I tried twitter, got addicted, deleted account, got rid of smart phone after realising I had no self discipline in this area.
I'm bad enough on CC...

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Can I ask roughly when this happened with Sky? I only ask because my mother had the complete opposite experience with them a few years ago when her Dad (my Grandad) had to go into care - they were very helpful and incredibly understanding. When she questioned them about it - because she'd had bad customer service experiences with other companies, much like the one you describe Sky giving your Mum - and they said they'd only recently set up this specific team to deal with issues like this because they were becoming more common and needed a different approach. If your experiences were quite a while ago, maybe it was cases like that that prompted them to fix it. However if it was much more recent then it seems like they've abandoned that approach unfortunately.

TalkTalk were the worst offenders that my Mum had to deal with, insisting that she gives them the care home phone number so they can ring my Grandad (who at this point barely knew who he was) to confirm that my Mum had POA over his affairs! That case, plus the fact that they disconnected one of my best mates' broadband without any notice - despite the fact that he was with BT at the time (he'd left TalkTalk three months before because they kept screwing up his account) and didn't even apologise, means that they are a company I'd never consider going with.

Basically my mother phoned up about cancelling a Sky account that was in my fathers name, whom had recently been put in a care home with advanced Alzheimers disease. My mother wasn't really dealing with the situation that well, and having to jump through hoops to prove that my father is actually incapable of cancelling sky himself was a nightmare. A lot of it has to do with whom you talk to with these companies. Its not the kind of thing somebody would make up. My brother posted it on Facebook etc about Sky. I just come to expect crap customer service these days..

 

[Dec66]

Loads.

Any where the boss is in favour of Brexit, for starters.

Hence the Dyson got replaced with a GTech, Wetherspoons gets a wide berth, as does Pizza Express and Patisserie Valerie. I also boycotted a local cafe after I heard the proprietor's views on the matter.

I'm not in the market for an earth mover so Lord Bamford of Gammon can sleep easy.

I won't go to Byron after they stitched up the immigrants they employed by holding an all-hands on a new product range, which was actually a front to deliver them straight into the hands of the Home Office Enforcement people.

I won't go to Bill's Grocery Store after they threw my missus and her friends out of the Brighton one because the kids were making a bit too much noise.

Finally, I won't have anything to do with Rupert Murdoch anything near me, for reasons which I'm sure are obvious.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Loads.

Any where the boss is in favour of Brexit, for starters.

How would you feel if you needed a plumber in an emergency and he walked out when he learned you voted remain?

 

[Drago]

Any firm where the boss wants to keep the UK in Europe

 

[Freds Dad]

Ryanair

Any shop or business where I receive bad service goes on the list.

 

[Dec66]

How would you feel if you needed a plumber in an emergency and he walked out when he learned you voted remain?

I'd hold the door open for him. Or her.

 

[Dirk]

The Aggi pub in Braunton.
Used to be good.
New owners have turned it into a creche. Most locals are now giving it a wide berth.
I'll give 'em 6 months and they'll go down the pan.
Serves them right.

 

[gavroche]

Anything American if I can help it.

 

[vickster]

Anything American if I can help it.

Like your Specialized bikes

Granted made in Far East but HQ in US