D.A.F.C Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Though I’d start a thread so people could share terrible experiences and help others avoid using them. Give a reason why, it has to be bad so don’t chuck anyone under the bus for nothing. Will start with a few popular choices. Arnold Clark, see Arnold Clark Thread. No idea why they are so popular. Yeeehaaa. I’m sure there’s decent branches and people but not from my experience. Lying to your face. Hermes delivery, just check out their trustpilot page. Phantom deliveries, stolen or lost items. Pay the extra for DPD. Avoid. JDSports/ScottsMenswear - the stores and products are fine but they share the same warehouse. Again check trustpilot, absolute shambles. Have had maybe ten orders from them in the last five years. Three missing items and once got sent the same Real Madrid top twice. Amazon, yes amazon. Somehow a person in China hacked my account and started ordering stuff. Took me a month of hassle to get sorted. Anyone with a saved card is open to this scam. Was shocked by it tbh. Apart from that they have been superb over the years but will never use them again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Most large companies are a fucking nightmare to get a hold of with any kind of issue or query. Waiting in a queue for upwards of three quarters of an hour to be told you’re being transferred to another service or to phone a different number because your issue doesn’t directly relate to any of the 5 vague options they give you on the automated line. Spark Energy were horrific to deal with in this respect, as well as ripping the arse out of me with no proper explanation, regardless of how many of their customer service advisers I spoke to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 On a very related note, Mixu started a thread for businesses to avoid due to their cuntish behaviour during Covid Times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I would never in a million years buy a car from Arnold Clark, but I’ve sold two to them and both times they were excellent to deal with. No issues whatsoever and gave me much more for my cars than We Buy Any Car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thereisalight.. Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I’ll agree with Amazon. There was an offer of “free Prime membership for 30 days”. I signed up to get free delivery on items I was buying. I cancelled about a week before the 30 days were up. Checked my bank account and the fakers had taken £7.99 out. Got in touch with them and they refused to refund it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Nestle. f**k them so much. Absolute scum who should be annihilated. The worst of humanity. Everyone involved should simply be deleted from existence. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/pakistan-audit-report-finds-nestle-pakistan-extracting-and-wasting-water-without-any-costs/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-children/amp/?espv=1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I avoid; Facebook 'cause I'm not a middle aged housewife. Twitter 'cause it is the cesspool of humanity. Ryanair and Easyjet because the flights are hoaching with neds. Android phones because I'm not a middle aged man. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 8 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Nestle. f**k them so much. Absolute scum who should be annihilated. The worst of humanity. Everyone involved should simply be deleted from existence. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/pakistan-audit-report-finds-nestle-pakistan-extracting-and-wasting-water-without-any-costs/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-children/amp/?espv=1 Milky Bars are awfy good though so I'm torn. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 There's a football company in Dunfermline to avoid. Spends money they don't have, dodges taxes, screws creditors and pays 0p in the £ 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 With regard to Amazon, I had a very odd thing with them where I logged in and noticed that a few non-me purchases had been made by someone in England. The strange thing was that they'd used their own debit card and their address and contact details were right there. All of my details had been erased. I'm not really sure why someone would go to the bother of getting in to someone else's Amazon account, deleting their payment and delivery details, then adding their own and making a couple of minor purchases. Still think that was some kind of database corruption going on and that our accounts got mashed up somehow. On the other hand, they also charged me for Prime after I cancelled before the trial end, but they did refund me. I presume it's standard practice for them to chance their arm. My own suggestion: for the first time, I made a purchase on AliExpress last year. A couple of weeks later, my credit card was maxed out by someone in Manchester. Never happened before, hasn't happened since, and AliExpress was the only unusual place I'd used that card in months. Might be dreadfully unfair of me, but AliExpress got the blame in my subconscious. Can't help but think my details were passed on to unscrupulous types. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 15 minutes ago, DA Baracus said: Nestle. f**k them so much. Absolute scum who should be annihilated. The worst of humanity. Everyone involved should simply be deleted from existence. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-fight-over-water-how-nestle-dries-up-us-creeks-to-sell-water-in-plastic-bottles https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/pakistan-audit-report-finds-nestle-pakistan-extracting-and-wasting-water-without-any-costs/ https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.zmescience.com/science/nestle-company-pollution-children/amp/?espv=1 Never buy a Chiquita banana. And not just because eating bananas is a hallmark of the deviant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said: There's a football company in Dunfermline to avoid. Spends money they don't have, dodges taxes, screws creditors and pays 0p in the £ Past tense m90 but very cute all the same x 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Thompson Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 5 minutes ago, BigFatTabbyDave said: With regard to Amazon, I had a very odd thing with them where I logged in and noticed that a few non-me purchases had been made by someone in England. The strange thing was that they'd used their own debit card and their address and contact details were right there. All of my details had been erased. I'm not really sure why someone would go to the bother of getting in to someone else's Amazon account, deleting their payment and delivery details, then adding their own and making a couple of minor purchases. Still think that was some kind of database corruption going on and that our accounts got mashed up somehow. On the other hand, they also charged me for Prime after I cancelled before the trial end, but they did refund me. I presume it's standard practice for them to chance their arm. My own suggestion: for the first time, I made a purchase on AliExpress last year. A couple of weeks later, my credit card was maxed out by someone in Manchester. Never happened before, hasn't happened since, and AliExpress was the only unusual place I'd used that card in months. Might be dreadfully unfair of me, but AliExpress got the blame in my subconscious. Can't help but think my details were passed on to unscrupulous types. AliExpress is just Chinese ebay, so you're not really buying from them. However, I pre-ordered a phone from a seller on there and had nothing but problems, so theyre clearly all shit 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, Mr X said: AliExpress is just Chinese ebay, so you're not really buying from them. However, I pre-ordered a phone from a seller on there and had nothing but problems, so theyre clearly all shit Good to see AliExpress provided the authentic eBay experience for you. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Barclaycard. I have a credit card for which I can no longer view my account details online despite being able to do so for the past 10 years previously. I have phoned them every month for the past 4 months to sort it out. The person I speak to can see that there is a problem however it’s still not been sorted out. I can’t be arsed waiting on the phone for nearly an hour before someone can deal with me again. The card has been paid off, cut up and they can go and f**k themselves. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 31 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said: Milky Bars are awfy good though so I'm torn. Get the Lidl version. Much better. 29 minutes ago, NewBornBairn said: There's a football company in Dunfermline to avoid. Spends money they don't have, dodges taxes, screws creditors and pays 0p in the £ Present tense? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted September 3, 2020 Author Share Posted September 3, 2020 There's a football company in Dunfermline to avoid. Spends money they don't have, dodges taxes, screws creditors and pays 0p in the £Declan didn't seem to mind 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 I usually find that stuff on Amazon is more expensive than elsewhere on the internet now, people only use it because its convenient. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2lgm Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Hotels.com - booked trip in February for weekend away on April. Was cancelled by them due to Covid. Voucher issued no refund. Tried to rebook and hotel wasn’t available so they agreed refund on June. Only got my cash back this month after approx dozen phone calls each a half hour minimum duration. Despite their website stating credit card payments would be refunded within 24 hours. Koontz of the highest order to deal with. Never again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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