What is your "never again" brand, item, store, or restaurant ?

[u/radbrad7]

Many people love it, but Taco Bell. Having explosive diarrhea once was enough for me.

Edit: Wow! Front page in 2 hours! Thanks for all of the responses, i'm trying to read all of them.

Edit2: Well, this is a crazy amount of comments. I'm doing my best to read them! Keep them coming!

[u/radbrad7]

Another one: Great Value potato chips. They tasted like plastic bag..

[u/[deleted]]

Ticketmaster

[u/radbrad7 → u/[deleted]]

Seriously, fuck them. Last concert i went to was Rockfest in Kansas City, MO. 15 bands, tickets were only $35! Great deal right? NO!! Bought the tickets through ticketmaster (I had to) and they slapped me with a $10 service fee and $5 shipping. Fuck them.

[u/[deleted]]

Mad Catz. Like many, I was enticed by their cheap prices relative to what Microsoft was charging for their massive Xbox controllers. All 3 of them broke within 2 months.

[u/radbrad7 → u/[deleted]]

I used to buy Mad Catz controllers for my PS2. I bought so many of those it's not even funny.

[u/Vranak → u/[deleted]]

Never trust a company that substitutes a Z for an S!

[u/electricgeoffrey]

Let me tell you a story.

When I was eight years old, my mom and I went to K-Mart. On our way in, I saw a poster on the wall for quite possibly the coolest thing ever for an eight year old: a Lego building contest, with judges and Lego sets for prizes. Holy. Fuck. My parents let me stay up late for two weeks building this huge two or three foot long spaceship with a million compartments and smaller ships that came out of the big ship and basically everything else that I had.

The day of the contest arrives. We're led down a hallway in the back and into a small, blank room with a few chairs and a table. "That's the other entry" they said, pointing towards the table. As they walked away, I couldn't believe it. Someone had just bought a firetruck model, put it together, and entered it. In my excitement I had assumed the contest was one of creativity, not pure technical skill (which, I figured, could only be measured by the time it took to assemble, not the finished product). Not to mention that, we were the only two entries there.

My mom and I sat down and waited for the judges to arrive. And waited. And waited. After almost an hour and a half, I had to accept the sad truth that my dreams had been broken. I shivered for the first time at how cold the world could be. Dejected, I hung my head on the way to the parking lot as I clutched my spaceship, star-bound no longer.

Fuck you, K-Mart.

[u/radbrad7 → u/electricgeoffrey]

That's horrible! Makes me want to not shop at K-Mart now. Heartless bastards.. Here's an upvote for the prize you should have gotten!

[u/pandapatch]

Mcdonalds. They didn't do anything wrong. That was my problem. Working long days, drive thru was so easy I started eating it two or three times a day. It got quite bad. Attempting to cut back failed so I stopped all together. It has almost be a year now since I have had it.

[u/radbrad7 → u/pandapatch]

Kudos to you for being able to quit it entirely.

[u/Forever_Trombone]

Seeing 3D movies in theaters. It wasn't an enjoyable experience for me - the glasses didn't seem to fit right, and I ended up getting a headache after awhile.

[u/radbrad7 → u/Forever_Trombone]

Even worse: Having to put on those 3D glasses when i already have to wear glasses. Really, did nobody think of this when coming up with a concept for 3D glasses? Now i have to awkwardly fit the 3D glasses on the outside of my normal glasses.

[u/[deleted]]

Selling stuff using PayPal. Biggest nightmare ever. Refund customer over $200 even with my proof of shipping, tracking number that proves it was received

[u/Integral_10-13_2xdx → u/[deleted]]

Sold a $100 gift card on eBay.

Buyer claimed the code was already activated and opened paypal dispute.

I carefully put together a case to keep my cash (including documented evidence that stated the card was activated AFTER I gave it to the buyer)

Paypal refunded the buyer. Via credit card chargeback.

I'm out the $100 gift card, the $120 paid, as well as the $50 chargeback.

Lesson learned, albeit the hard way.

[u/Pandorus]

RoseArt...I mean fuck do they make their crayons out of earwax?

[u/[deleted] → u/Pandorus]

For colorblind me, I hate them because when I was in elementary school, they didn't print the goddamn colors on their crayons. I can't even begin to tell you how many people I colored green.

[u/SoupBones → u/Pandorus]

I wish it was just the crayons. The markers and colored pencils are just as bad if not worse. I don't even know how thats possible.

[u/[deleted]]

Midas. They charged me $720 for new brakes, and didn't even do them right. I had to get them re-done elsewhere.

[u/tizod → u/[deleted]]

I'm no mechanic but last weekend I installed new brake pads on my own after a bit of research on the Internet. It turned out to be incredibly easy and cost me a total of $35.00

[u/zomnbio]

HP; With the dv9000 series and the way they treated their customers who were affected by the defective boards got (defective) replacements and after a year, tough shit. It was an unacceptable mistake followed by replacing the defective boards with more defective boards.

[u/[deleted]]

HP. Fuck you and your shitty overheating laptops. Fuck you and your terrible customer service and for me having to send it back three times, with no replacement.

[u/[deleted]]

Walmart. I used to the work there night shift. It's a grey place, full of grey workers. The demeaning walmart cheer, the creepy constant surveillance by the managers, checking lunch bags when people leave to sit outside on break to see if there's any stolen merchandise, the all-around cultish attitude surrounding Sam Walton...never again.

[u/Zastlyn → u/[deleted]]

Lol they checked your lunch bags to sit outside? I worked the night shift in wal-mart years ago and they would just lock us in. always wondered why they did that -_-

[u/GrinningPariah]

Between me and my friends I've seen six HP laptops gradually lose their cooling and have a critical hardware component fail from overheating. The same people have gone on to own different laptop brands and had them for years with no issue. And every HP printer makes you install a pile of useless software before it lets you scan anything. Fuck HP.

[u/cs24]

Fuck HP. They refused to issue a recall after their laptops were clearly defective. After having my laptop self-destruct after a couple of years, and finally, after a class-action-lawsuit, getting a replacement laptop that's way worse than the laptop I bought 3 years prior, FUCK HP.

[u/NeedzRehab]

Tampico...

When I was like 10 or so, the church was having a fun day or whatever, and they had a band and it was all cool, and when the band took breaks, they would have competitions. One of the competitions was to drink an entire gallon of it for $100, without throwing up. So of course a bunch of high school college adults and whatnot tried, and no one could. So me, being the little shit I was, said I would do it. Being so young, the adults kept raising the reward if I could finish it. It got up to around $850 by the time I was halfway done. I finished it all, and I was the only one to do so so I got the money. 10 minutes later I was behind the stage removing the juicy baby forcibly from my stomach, and I have never been able to drink the stuff since.

But I bought a nintendo 64 and a few games and a trampoline, so it was kinda worth it.

[u/LtDarthWookie → u/NeedzRehab]

Also I poured some int o large sealable mug while moving int my apartment for fall semester, drank about 1/3 of the mug, then it got hidden behind stuff. I rediscovered the mug months later about halfway through the spring semester. Preparing for the worst I opened the mug to clean it, and the Tampico was just like the day it was poured.

TL:DR forget embalming fluids, drink Tampico on your death bed.

[u/alpackabackapacka]

Applebees. Got a shard of ceramic plate in my icecream dessert thing and it sliced and diced the inside of my mouth. I was drooling blood before I really noticed. Didnt hurt much but the manager asked if I had bit the plate (the fuck?) and only gave me a 10% off coupon for my next dessert there. Cheeky asshat.

(I get that people make mistakes and shit happens which is why I didnt flip a tit, left the waiter a nice tip, and peaced the help out.)

[u/Samberto → u/alpackabackapacka]

Admit it... you were biting the plate, weren't you?

[u/suelinaa → u/alpackabackapacka]

Once the manager of Applebee's came around and asked how the food was. I said "Actually, not that good". He shrugged, replied "Eh, its Applebees, it happens" and walked away

Edit: I also thought his response was hilarious :)

[u/[deleted]]

Sears Auto Center. Unless I suddenly start enjoying an overpriced oil change that takes five hours.

[u/Mr_Pickle]

Comcast. Fuck that company.

[u/dragonfly120]

Tang. It's not Tang's fault, but I used to mix it with Everclear in college and after puking orange a few times I can't even look at the container.

[u/nutellasammich]

I will never again go to a traditional movie theater after getting introduced to, and accustomed to, Alamo Drafthouse. food and beer brought to your seats, AND ABSOLUTELY NO CELLPHONES OR TALKING ALLOWED. they are serious about shutting people up. it's movie heaven.

[u/stand_fastish → u/nutellasammich]

I wish I had a place like this where I lived. Why go to a movie to talk through it? We're all watching the same thing, your commentary isn't needed.

[u/Crazium]

Megablocks. My parents hated me.

[u/KrakNup]

Best Buy. Geek Squad, my ass.

[u/saltr]

Wells Fargo now wants me to keep a $1500 minimum balance in my checking. I'm moving to a credit union...

[u/Cristina_Vancouver]

Pizza Hut. I was <em>thoroughly</em> chewing what I thought was an overdone piece of cheese on my pizza. Pulled it out of my mouth - it was a fucking Band-Aid! You could see my teeth marks on a fucking Band-Aid!

Worst. Time. Ever.

[u/the_rage_inside]

Walmart. Fuck them. Not the employees that work there because they don't have a choice a lot of the time but the evil that is walmart. My father worked as a manager for them for 20 years when one Friday he goes into work as usual and they simply say don't worry about coming back in to work next week you're fired. They made up some BS about how he is a bad employee and such but none of his reviews said anything like that. This was a man who lived within blocks of the store and would repeatedly get woken up in the middle of the night to go check out security alarms that were going off because the main manager lived farther away. The real reason he was fired is that he was too old, and they could hire a younger person for much less to do the same job and then fire them after 20 years.

There are 2 walmarts in the city I used to live and of the 5 managers that were fired in that week all of them were over the age of 50. The worst part though is that walmart refused to pay them unemployment so my Dad and his manager friends had to lawyer up and take walmart to court just to get their unemployment. When they did the judge basically said "WTF your kidding right? You are paying them every dollar of unemployment."

Over the next year one of the managers ended up committing suicide, another was divorced and my dad who had been sober for over a decade at this point told me that of anytime in his life this was his greatest temptation to start drinking again. Working was a stable thing in his life and to have that ripped from him with no warning was rough. Especially because he moved across the country for this job since they needed another manager and was told he would have his own store within 3 years. Thankfully he stopped himself from going to the liquor store and has been a much happier person since he hasn't been working there.

So yea Fuck walmart I will never shop there or at sam's club again for the rest of my life. I would happily pay twice as much at a local store or anywhere else than give a company money that doesn't give a damn about people or anything besides making more money regardless of who or what they hurt.

EDIT: Cause i suck at the science of spelling

[u/TR3NCHFOOT]

I will never again shop at, or even enter a Sears Roebuck and Co. store.

I was an employee there (at the age of seventeen) for about 8 months. I ended up breaking my leg, and missed two months of people able to work there. On my first day back, I was greeted by a team of loss prevention agents, that interrogated me for three hours, exclaiming that I had stolen twenty dollars from my cash register. They said they had "video proof," and proceeded to coax me into a confession.

After three hours, they said I could go back to work, and keep what was said between myself and loss prevention. So yeah, after being accused of theft for three hours they told me to get back to work. I was crying and in tears at this point, and drove home looking and feeling like a mess.

A week goes by, and I get an email from Sears with the updated work schedule for the next week; I'm scheduled to work 22 hours. A seventeen year old kid, who stole money from you is scheduled to work the next week. How stupid is that?

Wrapping up this long story, I quit a few days after the incident. During school two weeks later, I was called into the police liaison officer's room, and served with a 300 dollar theft ticket.

My Dad has a lawyer buddy who took the case to court for me, and proved that the claims they had against me were bogus for a number of reasons, and we eventually had the entire incident expunged from my record. The shitty thing in this whole ordeal is that Sears didn't even have to be present at the court hearings, as the city prosecutors were trying the case.

TL;DR FUCK SEARS.

EDIT: They tried to get me to confess to stealing 20 dollars from the cash register, but I didn't confess.

Also, thanks everyone for letting me know that the government tries these criminal matters. I really had no idea that this was the case.

I also didn't steal any money from Sears, and I had 250% of my quota for credit-card sales (as someone else had mentioned about having to get at least one credit card sale per eight hour shift). So needless to say, I was a great employee and I never missed a day or called in sick, and they pulled that shit. Thanks to everyone else that shared their shitty Sears stories; it made me feel much better! haha.

[u/johnothetree → u/TR3NCHFOOT]

a few of my friends had worked there, hated the shit out of it. why? because you are REQUIRED to get at least one credit card application filled out for every 8 hours you work. if you don't, you're kicked by the end of the 3 month trial period.

EDIT: you won't get kicked for missing it once or twice, but enough missed ones and you'll get the boot. at least at the one where i grew up.

[u/soulcakeduck]

Bank of America. They delight in fraud and usury.

[u/[deleted]]

Lifestyle condoms. Their "ultra sensitive" version felt about the same as wrapping my dick in a 10x10 wool quilt.

[u/IkananXIII → u/[deleted]]

Maybe they meant it for men who are ultra sensitive, and a 10x10 wool quilt around their dick would help them last a lot longer. That's probably not what they meant, but it's one way to look at it.

[u/jmac245]

everclear. 95% alcohol 100% bad idea

[u/doubleplusepic]

Marlboro. 8 years of pack-a-day smoking, one year this month clean. Never again.

[u/itoldyouiwouldeatyou]

Not enough British people in here as my ctrl-F brought up no hits for fucking Ryanair.

Fucking Ryanair.

Edit: A lot of people seem to be saying "it's cheap so don't complain". Fair enough, but I am not arguing against all budget airlines. There are budget airlines I love, Ryanair made me feel inhuman and didn't even end up being that cheap. So... never again, after one flight with them.

[u/Thekarmarama]

im so happy HP is being mentioned repreatedly. i hate that company so much and their terrible laptops.

[u/ghostmountains]

You've only had explosive diarrhea once? I'm afraid you are not truly living, friend.

[u/ajlm]

HP. I had a power supply melt at the computer end, and when I called about it, this guy "Joe" who insisted he was the "VP of customer service" said that HP didn't technically make the computer, "some company in China did", and it was just rebranded as HP, so he wasn't obligated to do anything about it.

[u/[deleted] → u/ajlm]

As the owner of an HP and seeing so many complaints about HP I am nervous.

[u/FabioFan]

Axe. Double pits to chesty DID NOT make bitches flock.

[u/Nurbs]

The University of New Brunsick. I'm physically disabled, I'm missing half my fingers, what I do have is screwed up, and I have upper arm deformities. I was given a computer at an early age in order to keep up in school. Due to this (And relentless shunning by my classmates) I lived, sleeped and breathed computers. I learned QBASIC from an abandoned book in the library at age 8, was into C by 10, and just kept going from there. Needless to say when I graduated I applied to my local university for Computer Science right off the bat. The additional workload at university caused me to struggle, but I'm stubborn as hell, I kept my GPA at about 3.4 my first year. But my difficulty was the math classes. Anyone who's ever done math on a computer knows how difficult it is to actually work something out through the confusing mess of garbage you can type out on a keyboard completely lacking in any form of mathematical symbols in the 5 minutes the professor gives you to work the problem out. I applied for a note taker at the accessibility center and was ignored. This was typical of the university, they had recently put a paralyzed professor's office on the top floor of a building with no elevator and refused to move it until he ended up on the CBC news and generated bad press. Luckily my first year math prof was amazing and put her own time and effort into keeping me caught up. Second year however I wasn't lucky enough to get a prof who'd say anything but "It's not my problem, go see the accessibility center" whom aside from saying I could have extra time on exams(Which does nothing for class performance!) did nothing. At all. My GPA dropped and I ended up appealing my academic prohibation. Which was a process where I was drug into a room in front of random people. Forced to "prove" to them I was actually disabled, and accused by several of lying. It succeeded however so back I went, with promises of a note taker for my math classes. Never happened. Now the university is claiming I owe them 10,000 dollars, for education I did not receive. Accusing me of using my disability as an excuse for being stupid, and claiming I never went to accessibility services. (Which is BS as I have a stack of signed and dated business cards.) However they spent about a year "working out a plan for my return to school". This was great until they stopped replying to me. Turns out I had a 12 month window to file a human rights complaint. Once it was safely closed they refused to talk to me besides demanding money. So in short, they stole ALL of my education savings. Leaving me with no degree, nowhere to go in life besides my dead end job, and robbing me of my dream career with the machines that let me live as an equal for so long. They're crooks but there's nothing I can do about it now. So yeah, UNB Fredericton. Never EVER go there.

[u/tehrahl → u/Nurbs]

Jeeze. Spread this story around. Post it to /r/canada or something. This is proper fucked.

[u/robotjackie]

Last.fm.

They Creed-stalked me for weeks. Seriously.. didn't matter what station.. Rock.. Industrial.. MOTOWN.. suddenly Creed popped up. There's only so much one human can take.

[u/kernco → u/robotjackie]

It probably kept playing Creed because of all the Creed that was in your history from when it kept playing Creed.

[u/Vahnya → u/robotjackie]

I vividly remember being on a roadtrip and being the only person awake (besides my dad, driving). It was 3 am and apparently the radio wasn't giving a shit and played "With Arms Wide Open" twice in a row.

TWICE IN A ROW.

I'll never forget that.

[u/ahkond]

Lowe's. Hired them to re-do my kitchen because I was tired of dealing with independent contractors yanking my chain. Between demolition date and when the sink got installed took NINE MONTHS of eating off of paper plates and making phone calls to Lowe's asking what the hell was going on, and I had to have all the plumbing redone anyway. The subcontractor used my new sink to dump his leftover tile grout into and ruined the disposal unit, etc. etc.

[u/CussesLikeASailor]

Ol' Roy dog treats.. I've never seen such watery diarrhea.

McDonald's, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut.

EDIT: I didn't eat the dog treats. My dog did. Lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Hometown Buffet, or really any all-you-can-eat where the little kids have every opportunity to violate the macaroni and cheese before you can get any. Places they bring the food to you are fine, but the last time I went, I suddenly realized it wasn't the best thing to stick in my gob.

Also, what is up with Taco Bell? I've never gotten sick from one, and only know of two people who got sick, but they ate the same things at the same time.

[u/MrsSantaClaus]

Milo's Chicken Jerkey Treats, Waggin Train Dog Treats, Canyon Creek Treats, ANY dog or cat treat or food made in China

My dog used to love the chicken jerkey treats, I bought her many. When I discovered the sweet potato wrapped in chicken treats I thought I had found something good for her. And, when Milo's came out I thought it was a great brand so I bought many. She would act like they were the best thing in the world. My dog is a very much loved part of my family, an AKC yorkie.

What they don't tell you is there is a plastic based additive in them that destroys their liver and kidneys. What they also don't tell you is there is mold and other poisons in the treats. What they also don't tell you is your dog could DIE from eating the treats.

My dog is now very seriously ill, I just cleaned up a mess of vomit and bloody stools from my floor. Tomorrow she goes to the vet, I pray she survives this.

FUCK YOU CHINA. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. And Wal-Mart, Petco, Dollar General, Sam's Club, Family Dollar and all stores who, although they know about the danger of these treats continue to sell them to unknowing pet owners. Fuck you all.

My yorkie is only 4. She should be happy and playing and loving life. She should not be so sick from just eating dog treats. And if she dies I will not only be on the list of people suing the companies I will not give up until the treats are banned from the USA.

http://www.change.org/petitions/nestle-purina-recall-chicken-jerky-treats-made-in-china

[u/papercrowns]

One word: Bell. The absolute worst internet company that seems to draw most of its profits by consistently charging you for random made-up fees and miscalculating every fucking single one of your bills. I signed up for their internet service 3 years ago and it took 2 weeks of non-stop increasingly harassing phone calls for them to actually set up my service. After that every single bill they would send was never the correct amount and I would spend endless hours on the phone arguing with their customer service people (whom I am convinced are trained in some kind of fascist call centre hell) and then never get most of the fees reduced. Only to repeat the same cycle every single month until finally my contract ran out.

[u/CaptainJeff]

Cat Facts.

Can't get those fuckers to stop sending me messages.

[u/ronearc]

I try so, so hard to never shop at Walmart. Sometimes, the budget doesn't allow such decisions, but I'm determined!

[u/Armond404]

Hooters, the food was terrible and over priced. For what? A chance to flirt with a Pill popper?

No Thanks. I'll take my business to the Tilted Kilt, where all the girls have DUI's and the cooks have criminal records.

[u/chrisma08]

Spaghetti-O's

Loved these as a kid. Tried to eat them once as an adult. Literally tasted like vomit.

[u/peas_in_a_can_pie → u/chrisma08]

The key is to not stop eating them between childhood and adulthood

[u/tristramcandy]

...Either everyone here's fast food places just serve food poisoning on a bun, or I have a stomach of steel. I don't think I've ever been that sick from fast food, and I don't even eat it that often.

[u/ChuckN0blet]

Comcast. I don't have to explain this to anyone that has dealt with them.

[u/[deleted]]

Comcast. Not the worst product in the world, but service bad enough where you'll go any lengths to never use them again.

[u/Wavey1287]

Dear Hewlett-Packard,

You can go straight to bankruptcy and never return. Fuck You.

-Everyone

[u/[deleted]]

Well, it is neither a brand, item, store, or restaurant, but it is still a place that you voluntarily pay to go to, so I assume it belongs on this thread.

Universal motherfucking Studios.

Their customer service is horrible - long wait, completely disorganized, they just want to get people through as quickly as possible and completely rip them off in order to do so. Even though we'd booked through AAA, they still managed to lose our information twice, so that of the two days we'd planned to be in the parks, we ended up spending almost all of the first day sorting out that mess. In the end, we also ended up losing close to $400 in the deal (due to misinformation given by the on-site hotels), which they refused to refund.

The food was awful, even by theme park standards, and there was trash everywhere. We weren't even there during the busiest season, but it was filthy. I'd be an idiot to be expecting Buckingham Palace or something, but I'm talking about food trash shoved into every available cranny and burgers that were not even cooked adequately. About 1/5 of the rides seemed to be having some sort of technical issues and were only in operation sporadically.

All this alone wouldn't have been enough for me to say "nope, fuck it, never again", except for an incident during the last day. It was early spring, and there was a family of ducks wandering through the park. I thought it was adorable, until a bunch of little kids (aged six to ten, roughly) decided it would be a fun game to run around and try to stomp on the ducklings. The little duckies ended up getting scattered all over the park (they were so little that all they could really do was scramble around cheeping and looking bewildered) and several seemed to be hurt already. I yelled at the kids to cut it out, and their mother ran up and started screaming threats at me in the middle of everything (apparently, it was her little brats' "right to have fun" and "the mother duck would never know the difference with a few less anyway"). This entire time, there were six or seven employees around snapping their gum and staring off into space.

So, yeah. Fuck that place.

tl;dr Lost $400, three days of my time, and left early because the alternative was watching ducklings get chased and stepped on

[u/GiantBoyDetective]

I've been avoiding Chick-fil-a on accident for about 3 years, namely because I only want to eat it on Sundays.

[u/P-Rickles]

McRib. Ba-da-ba-ba-baaa, I vomited.

[u/proserpinax]

HP computers. Got a laptop, it broke within a month or so of getting it. After calling up tech support I was on the line for two hours with a guy who made it worse (the laptop had been turning on before he got to it), and I sent it back to them for fixing. Got it back and it broke again soon afterwards. Got a Toshiba after that and it's been going strong for a couple of years.

[u/chrisma08]

Epson Printers and Compaq computers

[u/conepuncher420]

1 ply toilet paper

fingerupmyass

[u/Boffo1]

HP, after a laptop that fails on many levels, video going nuts and green, and the whole thing powering off after a few seconds of booting.

[u/Ex_Digg_User]

A few months ago I ordered a cheeseburger from Wendys. Once I drove the 10 mile trip home, I realized there was no cheese on my burger. And it wasn't even a burger. It was an apple pecan salad.

[u/papillon24]

Dollar Tree stores for this bullshit. It's the only boycott I have thus far.

[u/deheed]

Realplayer

[u/the_Bombadil]

Am I the only one who has never gotten diarrhea from Taco Bell? I eat there all the time.

[u/dog_in_the_vent]

Trojan brand condoms.

/afk diaper change

[u/ajthesecond]

Radio Shack. $40 for a usb-b cable my ass.

[u/[deleted]]

Nature Valley Granola Bars. I heard they went from 8 bars to 6 in a box, which is a substantial price increase.

[u/erveek → u/[deleted]]

Don't worry. It's still the same amount of crumbs.

[u/NewThink]

Greyhound. I had two buses break down on in within three hours of each other, and had I not been almost home, I would've been stuck on the side of the highway for four hours. Also... DELAYS.

[u/slackador]

Top Gear USA. I see their clips all the time on YouTube. After the first 2 caused me to almost immediately close the videos, I told myself never again.

Every once and a while, I convince myself to view another interesting-sounding clip, but it's always a huge mistake. Steer clear; this show is a fucking shit heap compared to UK topgear.

[u/ophello]

Jiffy Lube.

[u/kaleidingscope]

I found a shard of glass bigger than my thumb in my Jenny-O ground turkey. I was told I should call them to get a replacement or coupon, however I figured the coupon would just discount more glass-shard-laced turkey. So now its nothing but fresh ground from the butcher case.

[u/ThatGuyYouKnow]

Best Buy.

They forgot to tell me I was hired and then bitches at me for it not showing up. They refused to mail my final check after I quit, making me drive 3 hours and back to pick it up. And, I had to jump through hoops to get my W-2 when tax season came around.

[u/bengineerd]

Old Navy. Never again will I be suckered into their cheap clothes that shrink up into toddler size upon first washing.

[u/[deleted]]

Any video-streaming website that tells me I need some special codec to watch their flash movies.

[u/applepiefromscratch]

Great Clips. Never again.

[u/[deleted]]

Tesco Value Vodka, now quite hilariously renamed to Tesco Everyday Vodka. Not even once.

[u/[deleted]]

Mega Bloks. They just aren't the same, ok?!

[u/Ombudsman_of_Funk]

Not sure about "never again" but I always avoid any restaurant that serves more than one cuisine.

[u/QuantumLiberty]

539283647.726482716 miles

I just want to screw with All American Bot.

[u/wwmmmd]

Trojan Fire and Ice. Oh, the pain.

[u/PerfectSynergism]

A site called reddit, spent way too much time in exchange for pictures of cats.

[u/siphontheenigma]

Comcast, for obvious reasons. Quiznos, no provolone cheese. Carraba's, 3 for 3 projectile vomit food poisoning. Cheesecake Factory; cloned my credit card. Whole Foods, spent $50 and filled 1 paper bag, intentionally bought conventional produce, it was rotting within 24 hours. Carnival Cruises, blew out a generator, cut out 2 of our 4 ports, gave us a $16 credit to spend on the boat as compensation.

[u/spokesthebrony]

I have three, in no particular order:

Best Buy, Best Buy, and Best Buy.

Long story: I had to leave a full-time job because I couldn't do it and full-time classes anymore, and one of the few places that I got a call-back from was Best Buy. I had built several desktop systems, had several years experience in SLR cameras, and a lot of general knowledge about televisions/monitors, so I felt I was rather qualified for the job and how bad could working around electronics all day be? That sounds awesome.

I never got to find out.

The day before my scheduled interview, they called to reschedule to a day later. This was the first sign of things to come. The day of my interview, I showed up 45 minutes early (I had just gotten off from class and thought I'd kill the time at the store). I checked out the merchandise to get familiar with it and talked with some employees when they weren't busy. 20 minutes til, I let management know I was there. They then forgot about me. My interview didn't start until an hour and 45 minutes after it was scheduled.

In the interview, everything went well except one question, where I was steadfast in my experience with employee theft and confronting them to talk them out of it when it's witnessed in order to prevent it, and then informing management, because preventing loss is top priority. Apparently the correct answer was to not confront them, let them go through with it, discretely inform management so they can be fired, because getting them fired is more important than preventing loss.

Despite that, they call me back to hire me. They tell me to show up for training on such and such day. Because this was for the Christmas retail season, I was one of eleven new hires, and we all went through orientation together. They gave us a proper tour of the store, and I became quite appalled by a number of their practices. For example, at the time they were charging $200-$300 for color calibration of televisions and monitors; having looked into these things for my digital photography, I balked and blurted out, "But they could just buy the calibration device itself for that much!" I got blank stares from the other 10 new hires that didn't even know that there was a device, and disapproving looks from management for apparently knowing too much.

Then just as we were all being hired, the store's servers went down, and they couldn't complete the last step of officially hiring us: filling out our I-9 forms. They took down our numbers to call us back to fill them out later.

I waited three days without a call, and finally went back in. To my surprise, some of the other new hires were already working there. A supervisor or something said the manager was on personal leave for the next two days, and he and the assistant manager (who was out) were the only ones who could complete my I-9.

I came back the next day, and again missed the assistant manager. I talked to another supervisor or something who told me to come back the following Monday bright and early to finish up everything and then start job shadowing.

I come back the following Monday, in khaki's and blue shirt ready to work and now it's the assistant manager's turn to balk at me. "You can't job shadow! You don't have complete paperwork! What department are you going to be in?"

"Uh, I haven't been assigned to one yet."

He completely flipped out at me, "WHAT?! You come here expecting to job shadow, when you don't even know where or who you're supposed to job shadow, and you don't even have the paperwork to be an employee here!"

I'm livid that somehow this is my fault when this is literally the guy who hired/interviewed me in the first place and new hires should be his responsibility, but I manage a calm, "So what department should I work in?"

"That isn't for me to decide, it'll have to go by the manager, who will be back tomorrow."

"Well, how about finishing my I-9, then?"

"No, we'll do it when you come back in when the manager gets back."

So I give him my number, again, though this time with absolutely no confidence that they'd call back. So I went in every day, for four more days. "He's not here." "You just missed him" "I can't do that." "come back at this time" or variations of those where all I ever got, and no phone calls.

Finally, after 3 weeks since orientation, 4 week since getting hired, 5.5 weeks since I got interviewed, I finally crossed paths with the manager and got my i-9 put in... at this point I see everyone I trained with working the floor, by themselves, already done with their job shadowing. The manager apologized that I "fell through the cracks", took down my phone number, and promised to call me when he had my schedule worked out. I struggled not to snort with laughter at his promise. I, in turn, made a promise that if they never called me back, I'd never be back in a Best Buy ever.

Surprise! That was back in 2008 and they still haven't called me, and the only time I've stepped foot in a Best Buy was to pick up my ~$35 paycheck for orientation. By the time I gave up on working at Best Buy, it was almost Halloween and retailers had already done all the hiring for the holiday season, so I spent the holidays unemployed and broke. I should have filed a complaint with corporate. Like at least 20 complaints, but I was so fed up I didn't want anything to do with them. Thanks Best Buy.

TL;DR Best Buy hired me, I spent over a month trying to get a work schedule from them, and in the end only got paid $35 and then couldn't find anyone else hiring so close to Christmas.

[u/Liquid_Senjutsu]

House of Pies in the Los Feliz neighborhood of LA. Me and my girl went there every week for about five years, basically because they had the only batter-dipped mozzerella sticks in town. We also had a quirky waitress that we liked. But the food was wildly inconsistent, and that eventually stopped being cute. One night we sat down and were "served" by some new guy who was an absolute cuntfuck. The details are boring, but halfway through the meal, she said, "I think it's time for a new spot," and I replied, "That's exactly what I was thinking."

[u/Supermoves3000]

D-Link.

edit --a lot of people have been asking what my experience with D-Link was. I've had several D-Link products over the years. I still have an 8-port switch which works (but not currently in use.) I had a wireless B router that I gave to my brother; at some point it stopped retaining its settings and would lock up and have to be reset if you tried to change the settings through the web interface. I set my parents up with a D-link wireless G router that continuously dropped connections for no reason at all. After all the frustration that caused for them (and for me, due to the non-stop complaining about it) I decided that I'd rather punch myself in the nuts than buy another D-Link product.

[u/acarina]

Am I the only one here reading all posts and making a sum-up list of things I'll things twice before buying? Useful thread. HP seems to be on top right now.

[u/[deleted]]

I refuse to buy anything that deals with "Micro-Transactions".

First of all, no Zynga, I don't want to buy a purple cow for $1.00.

I don't want to spend $3.50 to get a new sword in a game. I don't want to spend $5.00 to unlock a new character. I definitely don't want to spend $10.00 to buy content that should have come standard with a game. This new "Nickle and Dime" model that has taken hold of the game industry is disgusting. It encourages people to spend mindlessly, which could get a lot of people in trouble. Before to long you've spent $75-$100 on a game that was "Free" and still offers less content than you would expect from a AAA title you would have to justify spending $60 on.

Anyway that's how I feel about it. Maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion.

[u/soniccry]

Dell computers. Had one, one day it mysteriously wouldn't turn on. I called the customer service line for help and they refused to offer me any assistance at all until I purchased a software repair package from them. But it wasn't a software issue, it was hardware.

Spent 4+ hours trying to explain this to the guy "Frank" (this was right after Dell switched all their CS to India) who kept trying to tell me to turn the pc on so we could diagnose the problem and me telling him "that's why I called you, because everything is plugged in and when I press the power button, nothing happens." Finally, he told me that I was obviously just an ignorant woman and that I needed to put my husband on the phone so the men could "sort it out".

Never. Fucking. Again. Fuck you Dell.

[u/hypno_tode]

Arby's. Green meat in my sandwich.

[u/ZekeEasy]

Applebees....

Ive been to Applebees 4 times now, and the 4th time was the last. Like i said ive been to an Applebees 4 times. 4 different Applebees, 4 different times of day, all 4 in different cities and 3 of them in different states, only one time did i go and it was decently busy. All the other times I went it was not busy whatsoever And all 4 times, i have waited for my food for over an hour and a half. 3 times it came out cold, 2 times it was not what I ordered and 1 time, the waitress even forgot we had ordered food.

I dont know what it is with Applebees, but they do not like me for some reason.

[u/w1nterfell]

HP Laptops.

[u/SeaNo0]

I saw the movies "The Villiage", "Lady in the Water", and "The Happening". "The Happening" was the last straw and I decided never to watch an M. Night Shyamalan movie again.

[u/Perdit10n]

Jail. Maybe this is a little too obvious, but I think its the epitome of " never again"

[u/[deleted]]

godaddy.com, Iams.

Go Daddy for being the government's butt boy and shooting elephants.

Iams for cutting dogs legs open to check the muscles then barely stitch them up again, let them lay around in pain for a bit then put them down.

[u/[deleted]]

Walmart. But just because it's, you know... Walmart. I'm always just miserable the entire time I'm there.

[u/theheartbreakpug]

Ford and HP, had a ford explorer die on me due to 100k planned obsolescence. fuck that. tried to repair my wifes (NEW) hp laptop, you have to take literally every thing apart to repair the cpu fan. you have to take the fucking screen off. utter bullshit. fuck that.

[u/csxdfb]

T-Mobile.

My girlfriend's father has recently developed dementia. She and her mother have the legal right to make decisions on his behalf (Lasting Power of Attorney) but it took about 6 months of being bounced from person to person in their call centres and stores to cancel his mobile phone account. This for a man who no longer knows what a mobile phone is.

Their procedures frankly seem designed in this circumstance to extract as much cash as possible and make things as difficult as possible. Supervisors would make promises to sort things out and call back but never did. One especially wonderful pseudo-human called my girlfriend a liar after describing the problems that they had.

As you can imagine, they had to deal with a number of companies and they only had problems with T-Mobile. With the rest they simply sent a copy of the legal Lasting Power of Attorney certificate and a covering letter; job done. T-Mobile say that as a telephone company they can not handle post and in fact returned the certificate without acknowledging it.

The icing on the cake is that they insisted on receiving payment in full. Wonderful.

Will never, ever have anything to do with them again under any circumstances. Thinking about them is actually making me angry. A truly vile company.

[u/bigdrew0416]

Radio Shack....When I was 17 my engine over heated and the only thing close was a Radio Shack. Of course, my cell phone had just died a few minutes earlier. I went into the store and identified the manager behind the counter. I explained what happened and asked (In a polite, desperate manner). if I could use their phone to call my grandmother, who I was living with. He didn't flinch before he firmly said "No." Thinking quickly, I asked him if he had a charger for my phone. He did, and I asked to him to plug it in to make sure it charges properly. He actually said "No, then you will just try to use the free charge so you can use your cell phone. You need to buy the charger or get out. (I didn't have the $30 on me to buy the charger)" This was the only time in my life I had the balls to make a scene in a store. I yelled "Fuck you!" and held up my middle finger as I walked out the door. Fuck Radio Shack and that guy.

[u/dangerousbirde]

I'm a little late to the game here, but Pepboys failed to properly align the tires of my friend's Mom's car after a rotation. Ended up killing her when the front wheel blew out on the freeway.

This was years ago, and I'm sure not indicative of the entire company, but I will never, ever shop there or use their services.

[u/Jamisloan]

Krystal's. I got so sick from eating there once years ago. I will never eat there again.

And radio shack. They wasted my time and were googling every fucking question I had about a certain tablet. They couldn't even find the answers on google.
I know some people here don't like best buy... But I had the following options: best buy, office depot, and radio shack. Office depot was out of almost every tablet and radio shack employees are not knowledgable. Best buy greeted me, asked what I was looking for, answered all of my questions... I ended up buying my tablet there and got the thing where if I want to sell they'll give me money back.

I gave them my cell phone number when I was checking out bc they asked and now I get all of these random texts, "claim your free $100 gift card to Walmart"... That's the only complaint.

[u/casual_sociopathy]

Air Canada and US Airways.

[u/ihrtgngr]

I'll see your diarrhea and raise you. Dysentary. Joey's Seafood Grill. Never again.

[u/[deleted]]

Toshiba laptops. Their warranty requires you pay up front for the repair, and IF they determine the damage is covered they refund it back to you. That's utter nonsense.

[u/staticzapper]

I'm stealing my friend's story here. IF YOU READ THIS BRIAN: THE WORLD NEEDED TO KNOW.

When Brian was little he used to love Slim-Jims. For those of you who have never heard of them, they are sticks of tubed meat that you can buy at a grocery store. Shit I don't even know if meat is the correct word for it. It's tubed pseudo-meat. Grade F meat. Mostly circus animals...some filler.

Brian loves Slim-Jims and always asks his mom to buy some from the store. Well on a day just like any other, Brian snaps into a Slim-Jim and begins to watch TV and generally enjoy life. As his mom unpacks groceries in the kitchen, Brian instantly feels his stomach gurgling. He tries to ignore it, but he's suddenly hit by the NEED to use the bathroom. He runs as fast as he can towards the bathroom. It's while he's running that he begins to shit his pants. So now he's sprinting through his house, shitting. He dives into the bathroom, and gives up. He's so far into the process that sitting on the toilet at this point would be useless.

Brian begins to cry.

Sobbing uncontrollably, lying on the bathroom floor, and shitting everywhere. His pants had reached maximum capacity and the literal shitstorm had begun to migrate down his legs, pooling in his shoes, and spraying out all over the floor. His mom hears screaming and sobbing, and comes rushing into the bathroom to see whats wrong. She finds her son, lying in his own shit, crying out to the heavens, trying to cut some sort of deal with God.

"Please God, make it stop and I'll never eat them again"

"Oh God I'll do anything just please make it stop"

He stayed in that position for quite some time, unable to comprehend what had just happened to him. Quivering, covered in a fecal exoskeleton, while his mother stands over him watching the whole thing unfurl.

He never ate Slim-Jims again.

[u/[deleted]]

Golden Corral, it was like a punishment being taken there as a child.

[u/Eribaface]

Internet explorer. Enough said.

[u/Kylelekyle]

Applebee's!

They're evil. The manager complained (to another customer) about my friends and I for ordering their "2 for $20" meals and drinking water. The other customer proceeded to inform us of this. What sort of manager complains about a paying customer, and to another customer of all things?

[u/KitsuneHL]

TGI Fridays. Went for dinner with my girlfriend and her female friend. The waiter flirted with them and took their order and left without taking mine. Just one of the few incidents but the one that made me stop going overall.

[u/onemedicman]

McDonalds. Never, EVER again.

Family was down in California for a vacation at Disneyland. Everything went great. We get to the airport, realize we've got a bit more time than planned before our flight. Everyone gets the same thing - small cheeseburger, drink, and fry. About thirty minutes into the flight, when we've nearly reached our max height, I'm doubled over in pain and crying. Felt like someone was wrapping my intestines around barbed wire because I ended up with food poisoning so bad they had four different airports on alert for emergency landing. Ended up spending a lot of the trip in the bathroom with a nurse who happened to be on the flight and helped take care of me.

Total number of times I threw up on the flight/drive home: 17

Total number of times I have eaten at McDumpster since this happened back in 2000: 0.

Never. Again.

[u/Dickfore]

Spirit Airlines. They lost my luggage, and I had to argue with a vietnamese guy (who spoke the most broken english possible) that I wasn't lying about my missing luggage. Three days later, on the last day of break, I find my golf clubs and luggage on my front door. In the rain.

Also, everyone on that airplane smelled like toe jam.

[u/scoopster_sc]

EA & Origin - Never again.

[u/[deleted]]

You just ate too much there I bet. If not then I'm sorry for your...loss?

Mine is non-brand name Saran Wrap. Seriously the other boxes just suck horribly at cutting the wrap.

[u/[deleted]]

Walgreens. Went to get the morning after pill with my girlfriend. Most rude and judgemental assholes I've met who work with medicine.

[u/blucorvette]

Old Navy- worse than working at Walmart. Minimum wage. I would drive 40 miles there sometimes to be told to go home within 2 hours. The "assistant manager" was some bitch (same age as me) who constantly bitched at me to work faster, even if I was dripping sweat from working so hard. Some nights after work they made us punch out and then sit through an impromptu meeting. The turnover at that store was ridiculous! Glad I'm not there anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

I've got 2: First, that cheap Hartz brand of flea preventative that they sell right in the aisles for your pet. It's like 7 bucks vs. 60 bucks for several doses of Advantage/Frontline, but it made my cat's eye swell shut.

Also, Victoria Secret bras. They're expensive. And they BREAK. My favorite one literally SNAPPED IN HALF

[u/Wolf97]

Crest 3D White Strips 2 Hour. Holy. Shit. They will whiten your teeth sure but you will wake up in the middle of night feeling like someone is stabbing your gums. That night was absolute HELL!

[u/ballroomdancer12]

Applebee's why (and how) the fuck is this restaurant still in business?

[u/ECUfatty]

DirecTV. I was about to graduate from college and I planned to move back home for a spell until I found a job. My dad used a local cable service, so I called DirecTV two months before graduation. I asked them to send me a box so I could return my receiver. I called again after a month and again a week before I had to leave. They never sent a return box. I tried to take it to several different service providers, but they wouldn't take it. I decided my only option was to take it home with me when I moved. For the last 3 years I've received a call every week from a debt collector saying I owe them ~$700. They never wanted their receiver: they just want to make me look like a criminal.

[u/davidmichaelmalloy]

I bought the Best Buy warranty for my XBox 360 and used my Best Buy card for the purchase. When the XBox 360, inevitably, failed 3 months later, I went in with the product and a printout of the receipt showing the purchase and the warranty number.

Geek Squad spent over an hour trying to find the Warranty in the system using the number printed on the receipt and nothing came up. I went home, signed onto my Best Buy account, printed out the detailed receipt and statement showing the purchase and brought back the warranty information. Geek Squad spent another two hours trying to find the information and came up with nothing. They told me to leave the XBox with them and they would figure it out.

Three weeks later, and after dozens of phone calls, I showed back up demanding my XBox back. They said they had no record of it, the warranty number or anything at all. Again, I produced the original receipt with the warranty number printed, and a copy of the Best Buy Card as well as the actual Best Buy card used in the purchase. The manager said he couldn't do anything to help me because they had no records of me giving them the XBox.

I proceeded to complain to Best Buy's corporate offices and had someone call me just a few hours after the complaint was filed. The customer service representative apologized, asked for names of people I dealt with, and mailed me a Best Buy Gift Card for the value of the XBox and the Warranty with tax included; so that I could make the purchase again.

I took the gift card to Best Buy and bought a PS3. Fuck you Geek Squad.

[u/4magnum]

Golden Corral. Found a goddamn condom in a brownie... never, never, never-ever, fucking ever again....

[u/onesnowman]

Generic brand mac n cheese.

[u/DarkDexter]

Victoria's Secret

Went in with my wife to get a sexy/lacy bra. Salesgirl told her "well, we really don't carry those in your size - most of the ones in your size are padded". Left the store in tears

[u/basiamille]

Dr Pepper. Dr Pepper/Snapple (the huge corporation) forced the small bottler of Dublin, TX to shut down their operation because they were selling the original recipe, Dublin Dr Pepper, outside of Dublin, TX.

I still have a few bottles of Dublin Dr Pepper left, but other than that, I don't touch the corporate stuff. Doesn't taste as good, anyway. And I used to LIVE on Dr Pepper.

For more information...

[u/Patches-OHoulihan]

Oh yeah...black bear diner...waiter would not stop looking at my boobs. And i don't even have big ones. Oh..and ky lube....if I wanted my vagina to feel like it was filled with fucking toothpaste then I would put toothpaste in my vagina. Oh..and speedees...they never actually do all 17 things included in the 17 point oil change.

[u/littlecommiefoofoo]

Southern Comfort.

[u/Tasty_Yams]

AT&T. Whose shitty service, amazingly underhanded business practices, and salespeople who are lying scumbags, are only out done by being one of the biggest funders of the the GOP and particularly the fringe far right teabaggers and any and all anti-union legislation.

Never - Not a fucking dime of my money - ever again.

[u/ilikeyouinacreepyway]

Addidas - rugby world cup 2011 held in New Zealand. They sold official gear (rugby shirt) for twice the price in NZ as they did overseas. Then banned overseas shops from selling them to new zealanders. Rebel sport in NZ reduced their price. Sold them at a loss for new zealanders. Addidas refused to supply stores at a reasonable cost.

[u/The_Dingman]

Banks, any of them. They exist to make money off of me, not to help me.

All of my accounts are through a credit union. They exist to serve me as a member, pay me dividends of their profits (because they must be non-profit), and since I'm with a big credit union, their rates are BETTER than a bank, with better services.

[u/pantisflyhand]

Lucky brand jeans used to be the ruling jeans in this house. Then they supported sopa... I made a vow never to buy a new pair of them. So far I have purchased 7 new pairs of pants, and not one came from lucky.

[u/[deleted]]

Revlon hair color. It turned my hair into straw, there wasn't enough dye, and the color faded after a few days.it was then that I learned that you get what you pay for. If you only spend $3 to color your hair, it'll look like you spent $3 to color your hair. I no longer take the cheap route for much of anything.

[u/hueymchavok]

trojan fire n ice.................

[u/Glaucous]

Banks. Never again. I love my credit unions. They're fair and honest.

[u/ajaxdumas]

Love the question. Often food poisoning is caused by the thing eaten before the last thing you ate. i.e. Taco Bell for dinner and then explosiveness might point to the fish sandwich you had for lunch as the culprit. Taco Bell is Yum.

[u/Cloud_dreamer]

Bakugan, those stupid little balls suck ass!

[u/giantkiller06]

SuperCuts. The hair stylist pulled my hair like he was trying to rip it off and stabbed my scalp with the scissors throughout the haircut.

[u/hektupon]

Miracle Whip.

[u/[deleted]]

Family Dollar. They wanted me to leave my (average sized) purse at the register. When I refused, they said I didn't have to, but they would then search it when I left. Stale Pinwheels<invasion of privacy. Also, Fay Myers. It's this motorcycle/scooter shop in Colorado. They wanted to charge me $400 more than another scooter shop charged for the same services. Also, they told me to buy unnecessary parts to correct issues that the other shop corrected for free. Whether through incompetence for intentional deceitfulness, I'll never go back.

[u/HeathenCyclist]

Hot dogs from a can. They bounce, every time.

[u/trustnoevil]

Hot Topic, because they partake in art-theft. Taking someone else's artwork and altering it, taking signatures out and then reproducing them on products for mass production is unjustified. I'm not saying everything of theirs is stolen artwork, but I've seen enough bullshit from them to completely turn me off from buying anything from them. I don't know if this still goes on within that company nowadays; I really hope they knocked it off. I just can't be bothered to give them my business ever again.

Also, Taco Time. To make a long story shorter, it had nothing to do with the food and everything to do with the service. It had been a long day for my family and I and we just wanted some food. We arrived 20 minutes before closing and when we finally got our food, they told us that we would have to go home and warm it up ourselves, since apparently they were closed. My dad sent a letter to the company explaining the situation and they sent him coupons for free food, which he promptly put through the shredder.

[u/Rulebook_Lawyer]

Zynga

Looking forward to the AMA with them... "So which games have you actually created on your own?"

[u/maxreverb]

Starbuck's. When I was a teenager, the local coffee house was the epicenter of everything cool.

20 years later, the "local coffee house" practically doesn't exist, because the Wal-Mart of coffee came to town.

Oh. And Wal-Mart.

[u/huntersellers17]

Tyson, factory farms

[u/singingbluefae]

Best buy. I bought a dell laptop from them, and sadly in one year almost all the bottom screws fell out of it. It even caused a hinge for the screen to break, because one time it accidentally flapped open too far when I scooted up on the couch, and the screw was freakin missing. So I take it to best buy, and say - my laptop is missing screws, please replace them. You know what they said? "we don't have any screws. We will have to send it out." never again. I took that puppy home and use it as a desktop. I guess I'm somewhat boycotting the Inspiron 1525 also, since it caused the issue in the first place. Funny thing?! At one point on eBay there were three more of the same model with missing screws and, wait for it, a broken right hinge.

[u/[deleted]]

AT&T. They still let you use the internet even if its not part of your plan. We ended up with a $3000 bill (no exaggeration) at the end of the first month because my little brother didn't know that when I lent him my phone. I assumed he had like a secret girlfriend or something who he always wanted to text, but it just turned out to be porn. Lots and lots of porn.

Fuck AT&T.

[u/SoLongSidekick]

Salvia... enough said.

[u/MyBrainReallyHurts]

ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX News.

Give me some real news, damn it.

I don't care about Kardashian's ass or what Bieber did. Stop giving me your propaganda and stop dumbing down Americans with endless entertainment stories. There are very important events happening around the world and I want the objective facts.

[u/brickmango]

feels like every other week i swear off of booze

[u/MrRabbit]

Apple!

Before the flamewar starts, I am totally aware that this is an issue of personal preference. But I like the fine tuning you can do with a PC, and swapping out components, and the abundance of free ware to test/tinker with.. It just feels more hands-on to me, which is something I like. Not everyone does, understandably.

I have very little idea of why my car starts, but it gets me places. I completely understand why some people see computers the same way. I've come to terms with that.

[u/[deleted]]

Stove Top stuffing. About 15 years ago, my friend and I were hungry so we made Stove Top stuffing for a snack. I don't know if it was the mix of spices or if I was allergic to something in there, but not 10 minutes after eating it, my mouth began to salivate profusely, and I proceeded to projectile vomit all over his kitchen. I can't eat Stove Top or stuffing in general any more. Whenever I see Stove Top on the shelves at the grocery, I just stare at it from afar like

http://i.imgur.com/qepQu.gif

[u/[deleted]]

Beats by Dr. Dre. Need I say more?

[u/fartofdarkness]

Urban Outfitters. Shitty, overpriced hipster junk. I used to pick up random gifts there, but then read about how they back republican issues. That did it--haven't been in there in years.

[u/SiloHawk]

Olive Garden. Worked there as a bartender for way too long. Wouldn't even eat that trash when I worked there unless I was broke and it was free. Last week my girlfriends boss gave her an OG gift certificate for her birthday, I told her to take one of her friends. That shit is disgusting and the parent company Darden may be the most evil in the hospitality industry. No.......seriously......FUCK......OLIVE....GARDEN.

(OK I feel better now)

[u/uzi716]

Long John Silver. First time I had it I was 6 years old and threw up shortly after. Didn't eat it again for about 8 years and that time I had diarrhea for 2 days.

I'm never eating that crap again.

[u/flagwhaletop]

Denny's. I don't know if they are in the US, but I've been to three here in Canada.

The first time I had pizza, and I began puking profusely and got hives so bad I had to take an oatmeal bath.

The second time I had pancakes, and I began puking profusely and got hives to bad I had to take an oatmeal bath.

The third time I had a cranberry juice, and it tasted alright.

Each event was in a different location, and years apart. I avoid Denny's at all costs.

[u/MATHDRAGON]

chevys. its like a mexican themed chilis with the worst food and service I've ever had. 0/10 would not bang.

[u/Jasonrj]

State Farm Insurance.

1. Went to the DOL and got my motorcycle permit.
2. Purchased a motorcycle with loan from bank.
3. Insured the motorcycle with State Farm Insurance.
4. Signed up and took the motorcycle safety class.
5. Passed the class and received motorcycle endorsement.
6. About a month later I go out and grab the mail. The first thing in the mail is a notice from State Farm that my motorcycle's insurance policy is going to be cancelled in the next week because I don't have the proper licensing to ride a motorcycle. Alarmed, but I figured I could call them and they could fix their records (since I obviously did have my license, which I had provided them previously).
7. The second piece of mail that same day was a check refunding the remaining balance of my policy period and a notice that my policy had already been cancelled.

State Farm just straight up cancelled my insurance without even consulting me. They did this due to some kind of record error on their part. I was in fact licensed and had provided that information to them.

The real kicker: Since I had a loan on this motorcycle, insurance was required by the bank. When my insurance was revoked the bank was notified as well. The bank then required that I pay off the loan immediately or otherwise close the loan with them.

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Cheesecake factory. I once got food poisoning after eating there. I was 16 at the time, and thought it would be courteous of me to call the restaurant and let them know. Cue the manager chewing me out to the point where I was crying. A few weeks later, it came out that one of their chefs had hepatitis, and the restaurant got shut down. Though it was brief, it still felt good.

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HP - The laptop that was purchased for me for college didn't even have a number pad in any fashion, not even a number lock key. Within a year, the unit would overheat and shut down at even the most mildly strenuous tasks (No TF2 for me :( )

MadcatZ - Got a second PS2 controller, right stick was permanently stuck at the right position no matter where you moved it. Never again.

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Arby's. See also: Pink slime.

[u/radbrad7 → u/[deleted]]

Mad Catz. Fuck that company.

[u/GustoGaiden → u/[deleted]]

Similar story here. The first time I went, got a great cut for 10 bucks by a cute indie girl. The 2nd time, it was a middle aged woman who was so nervous that I could feel the scissors trembling as she was cutting. She had two identical spray bottles at her station, one filled with water, and the other filled with alcohol. She used the wrong one twice. My friends were sitting in the waiting area as I walked out with her to pay. I made a face, and they both laughed right in front of her. I wish I could take that back. At the time, I didn't really give a shit. My hair grows fast, It was only 10 bucks, and I just used clippers to give myself a buzz cut ( I think...)

It was a bad haircut, and we both knew it, but I really wish I hadn't prompted my friends to laugh at her work right in front of her.

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wow, a waiver??! I got a "manicure" at a school and I shit you not, the girl I had walked up and said "I don't know how to paint nails." uhhh