40 Times A Brand Made A Small Mistake, And It Annoyed People So Much They Boycotted Them

Dell. I bought a computer for my wife, 2 days later it went in sale. They still hadn’t built it yet. I called and asked them to match the sale price or cancel the order they refused. The person told me they had my money and there wasn’t anything I could do about it. I told them I would make them lose 100 times what they screwed me for, and I worked in IT so I would.

A few years later I was in a senior position with a company of over 850 staff. After I dropped Dell from an approved vendor the Dell rep reached out to me to have lunch. At lunch I told them why. They then told my boss and tried to have me fired. My boss called them a s*****g and said he would never buy another Dell as well.

Later I became a part of a company that did computers for over 5,000 employees in several companies. And Dell once again stopped being a choice.

Over my career I’m sure I cost them many times more than I said I would. It may seem petty to some but I think they deserved it for having terrible customer service.

In 1966 a chevron station in Wichita Kansas refused to let my dad use the restroom to change my diaper because he didn’t need gas.

Nobody in my family has used chevron gas since the mid 1960s.

SUBWAY. I was 9 months pregnant, ordered a sub on their app, the order went through and I was charged. I went to pick it up and the store was closed all day (it was a holiday, I didn't realize, pregnancy brain fog). I went back the next day and was told they had no way of checking and I had to come back when a manager was there 10-11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays only (??). Despite showing my receipt and assuming they should have had a record on their end? Anyway I went back during the ONE hour period I was given, and the manager wasn't there. The employee said they had no record of it.


I called and emailed corporate and was given the run around/no response. 


They've lost me as a customer for life because that's the only power I have in the situation.

I don't eat a Chick-fil-A because they hate gay people. And apparently seasoning.

Sony Corporation. Because they wouldn’t stop going after a woman named “Sony” who lived in Baltimore because she named her little sandwich shop “Sony’s”. She eventually ran out of money defending her name because Sony Corp kept appealing when they lost.

Honda.

Went in to buy a Honda Element and the sales guy wouldn’t let me take a test drive without taking about financing first. Talked to me like I walked into a Ferrari dealership asking about an Enzo, instead of a $24,000 utility vehicle.

So I went across the street and bought a new Scion xB from the Toyota dealership. Who never once asked me about money until I said I wanted to take it home. Wrote a check, signed some papers, and drove over to the Honda dealership to wave. (But he was already gone, so it wasn’t as cool as I wanted it to be. But in my head, it was totally bad a*s and he was really sad about it and cried and stuff.)

I have since purchased 7 new Toyotas from the same salesman at the same dealership, and will never own a Honda. And I will die on this tiny hill of pettiness.

I don't eat Chick-fil-A because of the hate.
I don't eat Jimmy Johns because the owner trophy hunts.
I don't eat Papa Johns, because the owner is a Qunt.

Anywhere that makes me use a QR code for any reason.

HP. What do you mean I need a subscription to use my ink? I’m never buying HP again.

Hello Fresh, the food delivery company. 


Around 7:30 in the evening I was trying to settle my baby to sleep. She was just nodding off when someone started knocking really loudly on the front door which jolted her awake.


Went to answer the door and two sales reps for Hello Fresh were stood there, one male, one female, both around 20ish years of age. 


They asked how I was doing and I replied that I wasn't very happy as I was trying to settle my daughter and they'd just woken her back up by banging so loudly on the door at 7:30. Said I wasn't interested in anything they were selling and as I went to close the door I heard the female call me a d**k. 


Lost my temper and told them both in fairly stern manner that if they didn't leave my property immediately that I'd drag them off and that they wouldn't be in a position to be bothering anybody else that night. .

Apple.

I just can't stand the smugness of iphone and mac users lol.

I once ordered from a small local shop for the kids. They both wanted grilled cheese. I ordered a salad. Placed the order and waited for the text to pick it up. And waited. And waited. About 45 minutes after the time it was supposed to be due, I called them.

Manager came on the phone and said: oh, we don't make grilled cheese anymore (!), so we canceled your order.

They never bothered to tell me this, so I ended up with two very hungry kids in the backseat. Never went there again, and was gratified to see they went out of business a few months later.

FedEx once claimed I was not home 3 times in a row. 2 of those times I purposely stayed home and worked near the front door. 

Looked at cameras and saw that they never even pulled up in front of my house when they’d mark my not home. 

I now drive a farther distance to Office Depot or Staples if I ever need to print stuff for work. 

I also will pay more for USPS or UPS when given the option. 

F**k FedEx forever. .

VW.

I went to one of their showrooms when I was shopping for my first car (F, at the time I was 22). The sales guy wouldn't help me unless he knew how much my dad was willing to spend. I informed him that my dad had nothing to do with it, I was buying a car with my own money. He didn't believe me and told me to come back with my Dad.

I will never buy a VW.

There is a Potato Chip company here in New Zealand called Bluebird. There was a superior chip company called Krispa that did the best Salt & Vinegar as well as Chicken flavoured chips.

Krispa were god tier. Like, Bluebird couldn't even compete. Kripsa was in every kids lunch box, at every BBQ etc. Bluebird was the crude, yet overpriced, alternative that people would get if Krispa wasn't available (I'm sure there are Bluebird fanbois who disagree with me, but their opinions are wrong).

In 2005, Bluebird made the bold move of buying out Krispa from their parent company. And what did they do? THEY JUST SHUT THEM DOWN. No replacements, no rebranding under the Bluebird wing, they just bought the competition and closed them down.

For 20 years, I have never bought a Bluebird product just in spite. F**k you, Bluebird.

Subway because the guy taking my order made fun of me for wanting a 6 inch instead of a footlong. He made a d**k joke, I was already tired and hungover so I said fine keep the sandwich and went to the Golden Arches instead.

Sears. Way back in the day, 1988 to be exact, my husband and I tried to buy a dryer from Sears. We were young and poor, and applied for the Discover card to finance said dryer. They scheduled us for delivery and, lo and behold, the dryer was not delivered. I called the salesman who sold us the dryer and he told me we were not approved for the card, so no dryer for us. He was extremely rude and dismissive. We never bought another thing from sears, and I feel we are personally responsible for their demise. F**k you Sears.

Santander. They charged me £28 in overdraft fees when thye f****d up and misplaced a cheque I'd paid in.

I made appointments at 5 different branches, and made sure I had a leaky pot of hopusepaint in my bag every time. Must have cost them at least a grand in carpets.

Before they went under I boycotted Body Shop (UK high street store), purely because I went into one of their stores, tried to buy a lip balm and was told there was a minimum THREE ITEM purchase?!?
But I didn't want anything else, I just wanted the lip balm.
I know I could have just bought three lip balms BUT I Didn't WANT TO.
This was a few years ago and I'm still annoyed about it.

EDIT: The stupid rule might have only existed because it was an outlet store, not one of the normal ones. Still annoyed nonetheless.

Lush.

I just wanted to look at soap but now 8 different employees have come up to me and asked if I need help or tried to make conversation. F*****g GO AWAY.