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How many Redditors have had a bad experience with a company/business and actually kept their vow to never do business there again?

Working in retail, I hear a lot of people say that "They will never shop here again!" when we don't allow them to break the rules to get things cheap, return things obviously used/old as hell, etc. I see the same people who vowed to never come back no less than a week or two later.

Personally, I had a mixed up order when getting food from a Snappy Stop here in town a few days ago between classes while doing a few errands. I didn't realize they put a single in my bag, instead of a double with cheese like I ordered. Not a big deal, but a bit of a let down since campus is across town. They were busy, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt that things happen. No big deal, came back today and everything was perfect.

I want to hear your stories of mix-ups or incompetence, or anything else. Did you stay away from the company for good, or did you give them a 2nd (or 3rd, 4th...) chance to get it right?

Posted Mar 4, 2011, 12:55 AM UTC

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T-mark3V100•

Pizza Hut around the corner from my apartment. I went there a few weeks ago around 10:30PM on a Saturday night. The sign said the dining room was open until 12AM. I knocked and they looked at me strange when I wanted to come inside to order a pie to go. They let me in and I proceeded to tell them I would like to order a carry out pizza. They told me I had to go through the drive though, I protested by mentioning the sign outside. They said "do you see what side of town we are on?"...I took this as an insult as I only lived a few blocks away. Rather than to get uber-angry I left. I vow never to return to that place again.

tl;dr Pizza Hut sucks IMO.

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MegainPhoto•

Pizza Hut's corporate office might be interested to hear that. Franchises generally aren't too big on stores doing their own thing, especially if it directly contradicts what they're advertising, even locally (the sign). If nothing else, they might change their signs to reflect their actual hours.

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T-mark3V100•

Thanks for the info, I may follow up on this as I do enjoy Pizza Hut's pizza from time to time. The enire dining room was closed up and they had a worker sweeping, and preparing to mop. I got nasty glares as I stepped over the pile of swept up dirt like I was ruining someones hard work. I wouldn't have gotten so angry if I hadn't worked in pizza shops when I was younger...full well knowing they were just closing the dining room early so they could get a few workers out earlier. I may try calling friday or saturday to inquire about eating in the dining room at say 11PM or so.

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TLDR: bridal registry manager was rude to a bride after discovering her pregnancy, cost the store three-five registries totaling well over 50,000 is guaranteed sales

a national store had their bridal registry run by one person. this lady was very rude to my friend (the bride) and treated her like trailer trash after she found out that the wedding was moved forward because the couple had discovered they were pregnant. the experience was so degrading that my friend was in tears. I called in a manager for the store demanded an explanation, canceled both registries (wedding and baby), my registry was also there and I canceled that one too. all in all it cost them about $25,000-$30,000 in registry pre-sales. and we both told everyone we knew what had happened. myself, my husband, the other couple and neither of our parents have shopped there in over two years. and two brides we were friends with didn't register there either.

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TheoBeast•

I refuse to patronize BP gas stations. I know it doesn't do much good though.

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gammon9•

Haven't been back to Gizmodo since the "you don't get to call us unprofessional" fiasco.

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paxswill•

I stopped after they outed the Apple engineer. Should've seen the stupidity around the CES incident.

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madcap699•

Hung on till the redesign. Looks and feels like a 4 yr olds website now. Never going back

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HardlyWorkingDotOrg•

Is the Canada layout also been changed by now? Or is it still the original?
You know about the http://ca.gizmodoURL "trick" don't you?

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madcap699•

Yeah I do but why go through the hassle. They used to be a decent gadget and tech news blog. Now it's like reading people magazine. It was just the last straw for me.

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logboy•

I boycott shit all the time.

Restaurants, websites, people.

Anything that pisses me off, I boycott.

I just boycotted rice.

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BippyTheBeardless•

After Jiffy Lube charged for replacing my filters and didn't I have never and will never use them again.

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skipjim•

I used to work purchasing for a company. About a year or so after I started there I got into a dispute with the owner of a long term vendor. I asked for a price list, what I got was a stream of curses and yelling and a demand to speak to the owner of my company.

Three days later I had a new vendor and in the remaining 8 years I was there I never spent another dime with him (we had been spending 100k or more a year).

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stylinghead•

fuck UPS forever. they destroy shit and refuse to take responsibility.

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fivepines•

A bank that rhymes with 'fells schmargo' is ass deep in the financial meltdown. I stopped doing business with them. I won't be going back.

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CountDuckula•

Ridiculous experience at a Seattle's Best. Said I would never return, even though I was a daily customer. Haven't been back and encourage my friends not to go either.

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thehalfwit•

I once bought a "new" business list from a certain list broker cough InfoUSA cough that shall remain nameless.

I mailed to it, and more than a third of the mailings came back undeliverable. I then followed up by phone on those businesses, and more than 90% of them were disconnected numbers. These were businesses that supposedly were started within the previous three months. Yeah, sure.

I filed a complaint with the state consumer affairs and got no satisfaction. But I've upheld my vow to have nothing to do with these _____________ (insert your favorite derogatory term here) clowns ever again.

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