What companies will you never give another dollar to?

What happened that put them on your blacklist?

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caOP
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    11 months ago

    My top company that I will never give another dollar to is Adobe, as they forced me into a 1 year “contract” with a $200 cancellation fee after forgetting to cancel their one month discounted trial in time.

    Other companies for myself include Dell, HP, and Canadian Tire.

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        11 months ago

        Oh man it was so long ago.

        I think the final straw was trying to buy tire rims. Went online and it says it was in stock and my local store, went to it and they said it was out of stock despite the website saying it was. Sent me to the next store over 20 minutes away saying they had some, went there and they told me that they didn’t have any either despite the internal system saying they did.

        Wasted an hour and a bunch of gas trying to get those rims. Not a huge deal but if a company can’t tell what they have and when they have it and prefer to waste my time I don’t care to give them my business.

        Plus they only stock like 3 items per store for every flyer deal, hoping you’ll buy shit just because you’re there already. Same with Walmart which is also on my blacklist.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Obligatory “fuck Adobe”. My proudest moment last year was cutting our company’s Acrobat licenses by 70% and taking about a million bucks out of their greedy little pockets.

      Nitro Pro is great anyway. It does the job.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Here’s one nobody has mentioned yet. Hasbro. Owner of Wizards of the Coast which recently tried to massively fuck over D&D players and sent hired mercinaries (literally Pinkertons) after one of their Magic: The Gathering players for something that totally wasn’t the player’s fault.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      11 months ago

      Reddit because of the API pricing change

      Yeah that did it for me as well. I was a huge fan of Apollo until the developer decided to shut it down because of that.

      Luckily Lemmy fills the gap pretty well, and the Voyager app is almost as good as Apollo used to be.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    11 months ago
    • EA – killed Earth and Beyond just so they could use the servers for Sims Online
    • Blizzard – trust thermocline for me was Blitzcheung and the “We’re sorry you’re upset” excuse for an apology
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    11 months ago

    (not only have none of these companies made any effort at improvement, they’ve consistently gotten worse as time goes by – remember one comedian commenting “the bar was on the ground and y’all brought shovels”)

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    11 months ago

    I’ve never -and will never- give a dollar or any control over my networks to Cloudflare.

    They temporarily disrupted KiwiFarms, the anti-trans forum. They also temporarily disrupted right-wing Daily Stormer.

    Anything free speech should not rely on Cloudflare.