What companies have made your blacklist?

Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 232 points –

What companies will you never give another dollar to?

What happened that put them on your blacklist?

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Mine is Sony. First the rootkit scandal, then the removal of Other OS from PS3s after featuring it as a selling point in the marketing. Totally deceptive and I won't give them my money.

I got a whole $7 from that Other OS lawsuit.

I stopped buying them for exactly the same reasons. They were my go-to home electronics brand before that. Tv’s, amps, stereos, cassette players, cds, dvds, presents to friends and family… always since the 80’s… ps3 came and then i stopped 100%. Haven’t bought another product from them since.

I've been boycotting Sony since even before their rootkit nonsense. It's because literally every single Sony product I've ever owned has broken within three months of taking them out of the box. Walkmans, Discmans, a DVD player, PlayStations 1 & 2. Thankfully most of them were things I received as a gift, so I wasn't always out of pocket, but I just don't see any point in spending money on some garbage product that's going to break if you stare at it too hard.

Yeah, Sony isn't a favorite of mine either. They've always had this Trumpian sense of arrogance and narcissism in the video game industry that's never failed to annoy me. It was kind of fun to watch them flail a bit with the PS3, which lost them a lot of ground against the Xbox 360 due to its mammoth price. Felt like the early 90s console wars all over again.

My linkbuds case died exactly one year after I bought them. No assistance from sony. Cant buy the case separately. 180 euros for one year of earbuds. Fuck sony.

Not to mention demanding accoutn owners be responsible for hundreds to thousands of dollars of fraudulent purchases made when their account gets hacked and stolen, Often telling them they cant have their account until they pay off all the hackers debt.