Just as we’ve all got brands we love and stay loyal to, we’ve probably all got at least one we avoid like the plague. Maybe its customer service is a nightmare, its products are a letdown, or its latest controversy left such a bad taste in your mouth that it no longer deserves a single cent of your money. Some are so bad that the mere mention of their name is enough to make your eye twitch and set off a twenty-minute rant about everything they’ve done wrong.
This list is dedicated to those brands. They might rake in billions of dollars, but according to the people in this eye-opening Reddit thread, the world would be a whole lot better off without them.
#21
Mary Kay.
And all other pyramid schemes that sell themselves as self-employment. F**k off with a sandpaper c****m, and that does double for the folks that started as victims and then rope in others to save themselves.
And all other pyramid schemes that sell themselves as self-employment. F**k off with a sandpaper c****m, and that does double for the folks that started as victims and then rope in others to save themselves.
4points
According to an earlier Ipsos Consumer Tracker report, 74% of those who had boycotted a company said they’d successfully reduced or stopped spending on it and stuck to their decision. But changing familiar purchasing habits can be difficult. Some 51% said breaking their usual patterns was challenging, while 30% couldn’t find a suitable alternative and 27% couldn’t afford one. Meanwhile, 68% said they were cutting back on the company they were boycotting and offsetting it by spending more at places that better reflected their values.
#22
Any and all MLMs
I had to carpool for hundreds of hours with someone who was deep into the amway cult. I should be given a prize for not m**dering them during one of their many failed pitches to try and get me to lose all my money with em.
I honestly was very good friends with the couple before they joined amway. But it completely changed them as people, they became delusional. Like, they were sinking all their money into amway.
How did they lose money? Amway high ups would like when a members store had good sales, so they encourage members to spend their own money at their own store. Basically creating high volume long term customers. They also required members to go to giant amway rallys all around the country, like, once a month cost for travel/hotel/meals will drain a person on an average income. They also discourage people from saving money, buying things on sale, denying themselves things, any attempts to save money, because doing that is living a "poor person's mindset" and will only keep you poor.
They also pushed "fake it till you make it" encouraging people to buy expensive clothes and vehicles to put on the appearance of wealth to impress people and enact some "wish it and it will happen" spiritualism. This "wish-it" delusion would monopolize their conversions. They would be scrolling on a "buy an island" website and talk about how they would customize their island WHEN (not if) they got rich. They would be talking about buying million dollar yhats when they couldn't even make rent.
Like, the couple went from my best friends to obsessed materialistic delusional pricks over 4 years.
Last I checked they were living in the basement of one of their parents, the guy was literally selling d***s to support his amway habit, and they still thought they were just months away from striking it rich.
I had to carpool for hundreds of hours with someone who was deep into the amway cult. I should be given a prize for not m**dering them during one of their many failed pitches to try and get me to lose all my money with em.
I honestly was very good friends with the couple before they joined amway. But it completely changed them as people, they became delusional. Like, they were sinking all their money into amway.
How did they lose money? Amway high ups would like when a members store had good sales, so they encourage members to spend their own money at their own store. Basically creating high volume long term customers. They also required members to go to giant amway rallys all around the country, like, once a month cost for travel/hotel/meals will drain a person on an average income. They also discourage people from saving money, buying things on sale, denying themselves things, any attempts to save money, because doing that is living a "poor person's mindset" and will only keep you poor.
They also pushed "fake it till you make it" encouraging people to buy expensive clothes and vehicles to put on the appearance of wealth to impress people and enact some "wish it and it will happen" spiritualism. This "wish-it" delusion would monopolize their conversions. They would be scrolling on a "buy an island" website and talk about how they would customize their island WHEN (not if) they got rich. They would be talking about buying million dollar yhats when they couldn't even make rent.
Like, the couple went from my best friends to obsessed materialistic delusional pricks over 4 years.
Last I checked they were living in the basement of one of their parents, the guy was literally selling d***s to support his amway habit, and they still thought they were just months away from striking it rich.
4points
#23
Any brand that puts 6+ second long unskippable ads at the start of YouTube videos
Or companies that sponsor mass amounts of YouTubers to promote s****y a*s mobile games riddled with Micro transactions.
Or companies that sponsor mass amounts of YouTubers to promote s****y a*s mobile games riddled with Micro transactions.
4points
#24
Coors. They own the water rights in my county, and basically anything upstream from their brewery. I have a well and I can’t even water my own f*****g garden with it, because coors. Only allowed 2 rain collection barrels, rest goes to coors.
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4points
Still, the willingness to change our spending habits sends a message. As Ipsos noted, the growing tendency for consumers to favor brands that reflect their values, even when doing so is difficult, should give companies reason to pause and listen to their customers. “After all,” as Macesar writes, “a boycott isn’t just bad press. It’s a loud statement that people expect better.”
#25
Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRX, Aetna, Medco...etc!!!!
Basically all Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM's) can f**k off!
Basically all Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM's) can f**k off!
4points
#26
Cosmetic companies that test their products on animals.
4points
#27
Amazon
The way Lex Luther runs that company is inhumane and heartless. Sure Prime is convenient, but I always feel like a piece of s**t for using it.
The way Lex Luther runs that company is inhumane and heartless. Sure Prime is convenient, but I always feel like a piece of s**t for using it.
4points
And that brings us back to this list. These are brands that some consumers clearly feel have fallen way short. Let us know which ones you think deserve their comeuppance and whether there are any others you think just need. to. do. better.
#28
Monsanto.
Literally committing ecological disasters one after another. Completely destroying different types of crop seeds to create monocultures and keeping farmers broke.
Literally committing ecological disasters one after another. Completely destroying different types of crop seeds to create monocultures and keeping farmers broke.
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4points
#30
I sadly can't remember what it was, but I'm sure that it was a brand of hotdogs.
Years ago, I was trying to watch a live Esports tournament (league of legends), but this stupid 5 second ad for said brand kept replaying itself on loop infinitely, which made it impossible for me to watch the God d**n game.
I think it's the only brand that I had ever had a vendetta for. Maybe it's best that I forgot it.
Years ago, I was trying to watch a live Esports tournament (league of legends), but this stupid 5 second ad for said brand kept replaying itself on loop infinitely, which made it impossible for me to watch the God d**n game.
I think it's the only brand that I had ever had a vendetta for. Maybe it's best that I forgot it.
3points
#31
Juul.
BigBoiNoa:
"Why inhale Juuls when you can wear Juul too? Check out our new line of backpacks and each one comes with a free Juul device"
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My conspiracy theory is that Juul designed their products to be easily concealable and unnoticeable so that teens could easily sneak them around and not get caught, like with cigarettes.
BigBoiNoa:
"Why inhale Juuls when you can wear Juul too? Check out our new line of backpacks and each one comes with a free Juul device"
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My conspiracy theory is that Juul designed their products to be easily concealable and unnoticeable so that teens could easily sneak them around and not get caught, like with cigarettes.
3points
#32
Carhartt Unfortunately.
I didn't mind spending $80 on a quality hoodie that would last when it was made in America. Now they're made in Honduras or Mexico but it's still the same price? They even stopped using the quality American Japanese XYZKKY brand zippers. I have a duck jacket that still has years to go on it that the cheap a*s zipper fell apart. Hope the corporate morons are happy winning short term profits over life long costumers. Might as well buy Dickies for half the price and same level of quality.
I didn't mind spending $80 on a quality hoodie that would last when it was made in America. Now they're made in Honduras or Mexico but it's still the same price? They even stopped using the quality American Japanese XYZKKY brand zippers. I have a duck jacket that still has years to go on it that the cheap a*s zipper fell apart. Hope the corporate morons are happy winning short term profits over life long costumers. Might as well buy Dickies for half the price and same level of quality.
3points
#33
Minute Maid… they have the audacity to claim their drinks are healthy and made with your (the consumer) happiness as a priority. Their first ingredient is water.. then high fructose corn syrup.
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3points
#34
As much as I like Apple they can go f**k right off
- Can't replace the battery w/out spending like $500
- Entire dumb thing made of glass which always breaks
- Continually caught infringing on privacy
- Continually caught promoting political agendas. Like just build a fn phone
- Face ID with no option of finger print
- And most of all......NO NUMBER BAR ON KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Edit: almost forgot, obsolete after like 3-4 years. Like thanks for the $1.2k phone that won't last 3 years.
- Can't replace the battery w/out spending like $500
- Entire dumb thing made of glass which always breaks
- Continually caught infringing on privacy
- Continually caught promoting political agendas. Like just build a fn phone
- Face ID with no option of finger print
- And most of all......NO NUMBER BAR ON KEYBOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Edit: almost forgot, obsolete after like 3-4 years. Like thanks for the $1.2k phone that won't last 3 years.
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3points
#35
Hilton. They charged me $75/day for incidentals when I prepaid the whole stay. And didn’t refund them. I stayed for a week. Never ordered any services and 4 years later still never got a refund.
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3points