Board 8 > Do you boycott any companies?

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I boycott four, in total. Three of them are never coming off that list.

Samsung Mobile - After I had to send in my GS4 for what turned out to be a hardware issue and went like ten days without a phone, it started acting up again very quickly. They did not fix it and would not replace it outright due to their failures. Because of the horrible customer service, I'm never buying another Samsung phone or tablet.
Apple - The root of all evil in the tech world. Inflates prices while decreasing quality, steals technology from others and tries to claim innovation themselves and sue whoever they stole it from, pays off media outlets to glorify them, and brainwashes the masses using all of the above. A company bent on world domination will not see a dollar from me.
Konami - You guys all know about what they've done to Metal Gear, Suikoden, and their developers. Legal games, career-ruining, blackmail, cover-ups, you name it. It's troubling how an entity this evil can get away with so much of it. I have never seen any corporation do things that duplicitous and not face any major backlash in its home country.
California Cheese - Yet another pure evil entity - see a trend here? I live in Wisconsin and I have seen ads by California Cheese that are scathing attacks on my home state... in my home state. I take great delight every time I see that a California dairy farmer kicks the bucket (I actively look those up) because they should not support someone that takes political games into a realm they should absolutely not be involved in. You do NOT insult an entire state in that manner and expect anyone in that state to give you a dime.

Before the fire in the Bangladesh factory, I also boycotted Walmart for their globalist enterprising and horrible treatment of their employees, but that incident was a wake-up call that improved their corporate mindset substantially. That said, they had nowhere to go but up, but still... I was lenient enough.

What about you guys?
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No this is childish
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Not really, but I would never buy Apple products because they suck
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@Nanis23 Coming from a child who thinks everyone should enjoy games the exact same way he does, that's rich.

*re-ignores permanently*
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So which one of those four has a chance to get off the list?
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EA
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MZero11 posted...

Not really, but I would never buy Apple products because they suck

Apple actually makes decent products, but they charge over twice what they actually are worth. If an iPhone X was $500 and not $1000, it would be a fine phone comparable in price to other phones with similar specs. The problem is the company and the shit they pull, not the product. The iPhone X is comparable to an Android circa 2014 with twice the price tag, though, so yeah.
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Apple for obvious reasons.

Etsy since the (thankfully now former) CEO jumped off the social justice cliff and it's 90% scammers anyway.

EA. I don't need to say why.
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KujikawaRising posted...

*re-ignores permanently*

You just set a new record for the most idiotic reason to ignore someone
Congratulations you piece of shit

I knew your topic was childish but this is even more, how did you manage to do that?
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i generally avoid wendy's since i once got food poisoning from them

i generally don't fly united

nothing else comes to mind atm
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I try not to buy chicken or eggs that aren't cage free. And I won't eat veal or foie gras. Does that count?
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I don't buy anything from Israel
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redrocket_pub posted...

So which one of those four has a chance to get off the list?

Samsung Mobile. I may give them another chance if I hear enough about their QA testing and customer service improving. Big IF, though. I'm fine paying $400 for a year-old model that competes with the best of the best, like the ZTE Axon 7 I got in September.

FBike1 posted...

EA. I don't need to say why.

I'm not at that point with EA yet but I have zero interest in Battlefront 2 because of how much they're milking microtransactions. Enjoying Sims 4, though, especially when I get all that additional content on mega-sales. I'm telling them: I'm not paying the prices they're charging normally for such things. They have to be cheaper. EA isn't listening, so they're getting to the point where I might not buy any new games from them.
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DeepsPraw posted...

I don't buy anything from Israel

This is even more stupid than TC
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the local computer repairs place that I am 95% sure stole my Windows key
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Not a company, but there is one Papa Gino's that I used to eat at regularly but won't eat at anymore because on three separate occasions they forgot to make my food and I waited well over an hour when they weren't even remotely busy. I will still eat at other Papa Gino's though.
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Cracker Barrel
Chik-Fil-A

Probably would put a lot of other businesses on there, but honestly I wouldn't go to those places anyway. Like Hobby Lobby. I wouldn't shop there if I was into crafts, but I'm not. Wouldn't shop at Urban Outfitters either.
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chickfila I get but what does anybody have against cracker barrel? other than that one meme about the guy's wife
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What's there to boycott from Konami unless you are a pachinko player? Isn't that kind of the problem?
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Tom Bombadil posted...

chickfila I get but what does anybody have against cracker barrel? other than that one meme about the guy's wife

Long history of racism and homophobia.
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kevwaffles posted...

What's there to boycott from Konami unless you are a pachinko player? Isn't that kind of the problem?

I think their Bomberman game on Switch is supposed to be good, so you could boycott that.
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KujikawaRising posted...

I take great delight every time I see that a California dairy farmer kicks the bucket

That's kind of taking things too far, isn't it?

Anyway I don't really "boycott" things since I"m a lazy bastard but...

Not interested in anything EA has to say or do regarding anything.

And I wish I wrote down the names of the hotels who priced gouged during the last hurricane around here, because I sure as fuck don't want to give those people my business. (Not that I've been to a hotel in years)
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EA
Ubisoft

both of them have a single exception - Burnout and Rayman - i'm not expecting to come back anytime soon anyway
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IRS
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I used to boycott Sony. It lasted 20 years. I bought a PS3 and several used games and at this point, I doubt I'll get more stuff since I'm still too absorbed into Nintendo and PC. I am no longer boycotting them though, just that my gaming time and money is put into other systems.
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I wouldn't really say I boycott but I get turned off from companies and become less interested in them sure

mnkboy907 posted...

kevwaffles posted...

What's there to boycott from Konami unless you are a pachinko player? Isn't that kind of the problem?

I think their Bomberman game on Switch is supposed to be good, so you could boycott that.

eh I wouldn't really call it "good"...... but uh it's a bomberman

good would've been the 3DS game that was canceled :'(

Apple and Konami are the only two that I actively won't buy things from these days.
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Brazzers
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gmun-chan posted...

I wouldn't really say I boycott but I get turned off from companies and become less interested in them sure

mnkboy907 posted...

kevwaffles posted...

What's there to boycott from Konami unless you are a pachinko player? Isn't that kind of the problem?

I think their Bomberman game on Switch is supposed to be good, so you could boycott that.

eh I wouldn't really call it "good"...... but uh it's a bomberman

good would've been the 3DS game that was canceled :'(

But they actually seemed to care about it by patching and updating with free DLC characters, and wasn't there even a new mode added?
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Just a minor note for me, Charley's Philly Steaks because of some poor customer service. Stamp card got refused because it was initialized instead of stamped a few times, Manager refused so much as a token effort of compensation, and when I reported this to their online customer service, they never got back to me.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Atm chic fil a and papa Johns
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Chik-fil-a I guess. Not really an official boycott but The whole situation with them just really killed any desire I had to go there

And also not a boycott, but I probably don't see myself buying more Marvel games as long as the X-Men are still being excluded, mostly because the X-Men were one of my main reasons for playing them
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Zachnorn posted...

I used to boycott Sony. It lasted 20 years. I bought a PS3 and several used games and at this point, I doubt I'll get more stuff since I'm still too absorbed into Nintendo and PC. I am no longer boycotting them though, just that my gaming time and money is put into other systems.

Why did you boycott them originally?
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Riot Games until they fix their dumb skin refund system. Too many purchases I liked at the time have been made useless because they redesigned the purchase out from under me.
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I refused to patronize Best Buy for a long time after a shitty Black Friday experience in 2006.
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Just Apple and Samsung.
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KokoroAkechi posted...

papa Johns

omg yes Papa Johns. I think everyone is allowed to have "that one guy" that they fucking hate for perhaps no reason, and the Papa Johns guy has always been my one. Fuck that guy so much.
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Papa Johns is one of those places I'd never go even if they weren't run by a terrible person. Their food just isn't that good.
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Why the Papa Johns hate?

Well I guess Ashethan just doesn't like the food.
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Chik fil a

Tried to do Wal-Mart but it turns out it is more affordable than food lion and has more variety in some of the product I buy. It literally makes me sick but here I am shopping st Wal-Mart again.
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Papa Johns to me is sort of in this weird spot of being slightly better than most fast food type pizzas, but too expensive for its own good. Like if I'm paying Papa Johns prices might as well just take the plunge into a legit pizzeria in the area if possible.

I don't boycott em but I wouldn't buy much from em ever unless the options in the area were really thin.
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I can tell you it's because of his political views, the fact that he lives in some manor surrounded by a moat, or his pleas against giving his employees healthcare because they could raise the price of pizzas a nickel, but I'd be lying. I hated him long before any of that. I've never seen someone exude such a smarmy, punchable smugness. I would never wish physical harm on him or his family, but my god do I hope that his business falls apart so I can buy the final Papa Johns pizza and take a shit on it.
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Tom Bombadil posted...

chickfila I get but what does anybody have against cracker barrel? other than that one meme about the guy's wife

Tbh I just hate crackle barrel and avoid it at any costs

I'm not boycotting it tho
i just hate it
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there's a local bar/restaurant I refuse to ever go to because they put up a bunch of fliers in the neighborhood that looked like they were about a missing cat and I'm mad at them for exploiting my concern for a hypothetical cat to trick me into looking at an ad
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Just Apple.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

I can tell you it's because of his political views, the fact that he lives in some manor surrounded by a moat, or his pleas against giving his employees healthcare because they could raise the price of pizzas a nickel, but I'd be lying. I hated him long before any of that. I've never seen someone exude such a smarmy, punchable smugness. I would never wish physical harm on him or his family, but my god do I hope that his business falls apart so I can buy the final Papa Johns pizza and take a shit on it.

I have no qualms believing you would actually do that.
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CFA stopped their funding so what's the boycotting there for?

Also I just realized I do boycott Uber
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I only boycott companies I had no intention in buying from anyway.
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foolm0r0n posted...

CFA stopped their funding so what's the boycotting there for?

No they didn't. They still donate to anti lgbt groups, they've just cut back on it some. Not to mention they don't have any non-discrimination policies toward LGBT.
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Any company with shareholders that have the wrong political views
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