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I know it's a horrible thing when a company goes under, with people losing their jobs etc, but if it is possible to remove that factor from the equation for a moment. Are there any companies you have dealt with which just deserve to implode?
For me, it's Blacks....for the following petty reasons from my last 2 orders.
1. Made an order and selected next day delivery. Order never showed up. When I contacted them about it, they said that an item wasn't in stock, so they had not sent the order out. They never contacted me to let me know, I guess they were waiting to hear from me. Cheers for that.
2. Returned order to store. To do a refund, the guy in the shop has to ring Black's own customer service number as they have no ability to authorise payment. No direct line mind, so if their C/S is their normal active self, you could be waiting for a while.
3. Other order was returned via 24 courier, as shop returns are not possible with Paypal payments, and they got it back last Wednesday. I hear nothing for a week, and contact them via Twitter. After giving all relevant info, I get told I have to wait a few hours while this bod from C/S emails the returns dept, to see what's going on. 24hrs+ later and no-one has got back to me.
Grrrr!
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I'd have said Tesco's but I got some Kebab lamb meat from their Halal counter last night that was amazing. All is forgiven.
BT Openreach
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I thought Blacks had gone bust?
I thought Blacks had gone bust?
I want them to go bust again.
If you order online and return to store in Sainsbury's it's the same - they have to ring through for authorisation.
Not that big a deal in itself.
Any of the privatised utilities, basically. They were all handed monopolies, with no competition, and * me, haven't they acted like it. They still do!
So...
BT
British Gas. In fact, all the energy suppliers
All the water companies
All the Train Operating companies
In fact, they shouldn't just go deservedly bust, the lazy, complacent, greedy management should be flogged naked through the streets as well. Along with the private equity parasites who inevitably ended up owning them, and creaming off massive profits that running an effective cartel provides, while delivering truly appalling service. The s!!
Woolworths. I stopped buying their pick n mix when they stopped stocking midget gems.
Unicom telecoms provider
[url= http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews140628.html ]Unicom company review website[/url]
Finally out of contract with them at work and took great pleasure in telling where to stick their offer of a renewal. Rude, pushy, aggressive. Horrendous. The company review website above tells the story
Paddy Power
Black is one of those companies that seems to dodge bullets well... reminds me of this chap...
They did go bust:
It entered administration in 2012 and was purchased by JD Sports. Since the acquisition by JD Sports, Blacks head offices have been relocated to JD's head offices in Bury.
If you order online and return to store in Sainsbury's it's the same - they have to ring through for authorisation.Not that big a deal in itself.
The authorisation in itself is not an issue, it's the fact they have to ring the same number as Joe Public does, and that's a 10min+ wait.
Air France. Hateful, scum sucking bottom feeders.
Yodel?
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Air France. Hateful, scum sucking bottom feeders.
The Champagne was only chilled - not on ice?
Amstrad
Yodel?
We have a winner.
*closes thread*
Air France. Hateful, scum sucking bottom feeders.
I know their Quail's eggs aren't the finest, but this seems a little harsh.
Ebay...for selling fake stuff even after reporting it they do nothing.. costing our business/industry a fortune
LLoyds and RBS?
Amstrad
LOL
Are you in some sort of timewarp? Do you still rent a telly?
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Sticking a name in the ring that might not be taken well but I'm going to say Pace. They started off well, some great frames and good early forks and then failed miserably with poor customer service and life threatening warrenty.
Train companies - in my experience FirstScotrail and Scotrail.
Treat all your customers with which you have a long standing (no pun intended, but quite good, no?) relationship and much history of their purchases i.e. season ticket sales - as criminals; to wit, I made a mistake bought the wrong ticket, or don't allow me to redeem the single I had to buy to get to a station that could sell me a season ticket for the journey I have just made!
Just make me late for many, many appointments and meetings but only ever apologise for the inconvenience. I work in hospitality, people don't accept the food being delivered late at conference lunches without some expectation of recompense and **** the inconvenience.
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Many, in fact I'll say most, of the independent cafes and tea shops shops of Britain. How they stay in business when their food is crap, their service is iffy and their prices are ridiculously high for the product they offer never ceases to astound and irritate me.
There are of course excellent exceptions to this rule, and they deserve to do very, very well.
The Amazon seller I just bought a sporting article from (or tried to). Won't say what it is as the dispute is still going on.
1. I order article, choose size: l/xl
2. article arrives. Size is S/M
3. I email seller. I can't be bothered to send back (cheap item), I'll order another if you can assure me you have l/xl and I'll get that size
4. Seller responds, sorry, contact us tomorrow to sort it
5. NExt day I ask how do I ensure I get L?
6. Seller replies - You want to order anther pair?
7. Jeez. Yes, see my last message
8. Seller - send a message when you've ordered and we'll sort it
9. I order l/xl and send a message after - please ensure I receive bla blah.
10. Seller replies - you will.
11. Item 2 arrives. Guess what size?
12. I'll return both for a refund please.
13. Ok, return to this address
14. Few days later - refund for one item...
Holy moly.
Southern Water
Thames Water
Southern Trains
South West Trains
BT
SKY
MINT Credit Card
HBOS (The Halifax)
LBS'es
Ok so the last one maybe a bit close but Gawd, sometimes when you walk in asking for a full service to be done they look & treat you like you are 11 with a fag hanging out of yer mouth.
Blacks +1. The service I had in their Peterborough store would had been funny if it was someone else that was having to deal with it. But it was painful....I was that annoyed I wrote a letter of complaint to their head office and got absolutely no response from it.
HSBC - rubbish. Just rubbish.
Talk Talk.
Transpennine Express - please have the decency to give us an explanation why you make me late for work/home more than 20% of the time
Hermes - for not being arsed to deliver my parcel for over a week because the parking was difficult near my office. It was only my GF's birthday present 👿 👿 👿 👿
Blacks - thank you for not giving me my parcel when i went to collect it in store because I don't carry photo ID. This is after waiting 1.5 weeks because they sent the wrong colour rucksack
All utilities companies - for being useless barstewards - my company forks out nearly £4m a year to these gits and they never reply to emails or answer the bloody phone
Countrywide Conveyancing Services. Just typing that makes me get angry, what a shower of shit.
Oh, and the Daily Mail and General Trust.
Air France. Hateful, scum sucking bottom feeders.
Here here!
Closely followed by: BA. Stuck-up deceitful self-riotous competition-eradicating false-smile-adorned slime. I'd like to see their pension scheme go under first though, Maxwell-style. Oh how my heart would bleed.
Royal Mail
All the rail-replacement bus service operators, but South West Trains in particular
Whoever Rob Hilton works for 🙂
mildly ticked off with barclaycard. they took over another credit card i had. i didn't want a barclaycard. eventually got them to ring me in order to cancel the barclaycard ( no, i'm not ringing your charged for cs number! ), and i cancelled. a year later they allow a transaction on the same card. 🙄
( a renewal - business just used same numbers they did the previous year )
Easy Jet
Foxtons
MBNA
All the betting outfits
Absolutely anyone who makes massive amounts of money from providing people with anything that is day to day essential.
i.e. BT, British Gas, Tesco...etc
Not cool making hundreds of millions of pounds from struggling families and retired people.
Student Loans Company
BT
Nationwide BS
All train companies, with a couple of exceptions.
Air France
+1.
Also Ryanair. The business model is fair enough, but try treating your customers with a modicum of respect.
And Paypal. Absolute shysters charging jacked up fees for fraudulent transactions and offering zero protection when the cockbag in HK makes off with your money and no actual item you supposedly bought on ebay.
Blacks +1. The service I had in their Peterborough store would had been funny if it was someone else that was having to deal with it. But it was painful....I was that annoyed I wrote a letter of complaint to their head office and got absolutely no response from it.
Heh...that's my local store. There was 2 people at the counter dealing with the phonecall to get the refund. An elderly couple walked in, all dressed in outdoorsy clothes. They walked round the ground floor, went upstairs, came down, hung about, and not once did one of the workers ask if they were ok/needed any help.
Unicom +1, big time. Beyond sharp practice and into iffy legal standing.
Also, [url= http://hairydogphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/please-beware-printerpix.html?m=0 ]Printerpix[/url] who have frequent offers through Groupon and the like. That link tells you all you need to know about their non-existent customer service. They just straight out lie to their customers.
I could go on but I wish to remain on an even keel...
Ryanair don't deserve to go out of business, but only by dint of being so roundly hated and having an arsehole of a CE yet still doing very well.
Airfrance, because they killed concorde.
Sky +1 can't say I have ever been a Murdoch fan but his recent twitter outbursts are making him more odious and intolerable.
Northern Fail
Morrisons. When will they ever have a fully stocked store where I live? Despite provided photographic evidence nothing has changed.
Vodafone.
Can't believe no one has said Dave Hinde yet...
Has there ever been a satisfied customer?
BT and all the utility companies. That'll do for now. 🙂
ti_pin_man - MemberSticking a name in the ring that might not be taken well but I'm going to say Pace. They started off well, some great frames and good early forks and then failed miserably with poor customer service and life threatening warrenty.
Just in case anyone thinks Joe is kidding
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Sky
Eon
Bt
Barclays
Lloyds
HSBC
Natwest
Santander
Halifax
Bunny s bikes
Any and all the Utility Company's(By common concensus)
Yodel(no explanation needed)
First Buses and Northern rail(Both a shower of sh!t)
Sky(too long to go into here)
BP ,Shell etc (never mind the tax on fuel by the government, price fixing galore by these shysters)
BT - I really hate that company! How come they still have a monopoly (those with a Virgin cable to their house excepted, obviously) on our phone lines in this modern age?
Tobacco companies.
Payday Lenders.
Accident management companies.
Talk Sport.
Yeah, I remember Joe's experience with pace... Not good....
Yell.com
BT
Sky
Myparceldelivery.com
parcel2go.com
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my god, avoid.
Bike Outlet York, Fast tech just my 2 additions.
Local council the bureaucrats ...
Tesco, in fact all the big supermarkets.
Royal Mail.
Dave Hinde.
Royal Mail.
I don't know, I've made £600 from them in the last 6 months, on a £750 investment!
Halifax
Sports Direct
Is that something to brag about footflaps?
My vote: wheelies, British gas, Ryanair, associated newspapers.
All unlikely, sadly.
Not a company, but BBC 5Live deserves to whither and die. The Danny Baker Show is the only thing of merit on that station.
Any payday loan company.. Charging people colossal amounts of interest! Can't believe that are allowed to advertise!
Cash converters
eBay
Sky
Vodafone
USC
Ryanair
Probably lots of others aswell.
Along with the private equity parasites who inevitably ended up owning them
Most (if not all) of those companies you name are not owned by private equity firms.
MBNA - for being a bunch of thieving scum
British Gas - for general all-round incompetence
Daily Mail - for being a thoroughly odious hateful publication
Bravissimo.
Thread title needs changing.
"Companies that deserve to go out of business because I hate them."
Bravissimo.
🙁
Thread title needs changing.
Nope. Just needs to be caressed back on course.
It's all well and good to say one would like to see Dr Orphan-Strangler's Payday Loan and Cigar Emporium go bust, but that's not the point. It's companies who you have personally dealt with, and wondered how the hell they continue to exist due to their incompetence.
For example, Amazon are ethically dubious, but their delivery, customer service and returns are spot on. So yes, they treat people in their warehouses like broken robots and have very questionable employment practices, but I can order some parcel tape at 6pm and have it the next day, and they refund returns once they get scanned at the Collect+ dropoff. Soooo I let that slide.
Bike Outlet York,
+1
Lloyds banking group.
a) You cannot deal with mortgage person in bank as you are existing customer, please phone us.
b) Two different departments for buy to let and residential, and I needed both at once.
c) Third department for remortgage.
d) Fourth department as original mortgage was through intermediary.
e) Fifth department as none of the above seemed to fit, after 2 hours on phone, none of their offers on the C&G website was available to me, and they suggested I go onto store.
f) see a)
g) I get a phone call asking why I am ending mortgage deal, and could they offer me something else, they will just put me through to a colleague in another department....
Manchester United 🙂
G4
Wonga and other legalised loan sharks.
Talktalk
has no one said Dave HInde yet`?
It's companies who you have personally dealt with, and wondered how the hell they continue to exist due to their incompetence.
Fair 'nuff. In that case, Plusnet. Great in the early days, now shocking CS.
I spent a few years hating Chiltern Railways. The expression 'this really isn't any way to run a railroad' could have been made for them. I remember once being abandoned around Pinner while - I can only assume - the driver popped out for some light shopping.
Ah yes, here's a representative example: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?page_id=9
Alex you clearly haven't had much experience of other TOC lowlights. Chiltern are actually one of the best by quite a long way. For me, TfL every time with their horrible patronising nannying and alternate barking of pointless orders, their utter inability to run anything whatsoever and downright nastiness. 11 months to replace an escalator anyone? Loathsome, loathsome,loathsome. How many hours have they stolen from me in their horrendous random nastiness?
That's better, and breathe. And Ryanair. And TfL again for good measure (repeat above).
postierich - Member
Whoever Rob Hilton works for
I used to be postierob - came so close to "going postal" 
I loved delivering scrap paper that went straight in the bin.
Currently NHS, so, while it may not be the most efficient, not a total waste of time.
Do any of you train whiners ever claim back fares for late or delayed trains?