Companies You are Currently Boycotting

[brunothepig]

I don't choose to boycott a company for a couple of reasons. One missed sale is not going to affect them. And if they make something I want, I'm not gonna say "no I'm not buying that cause their CEO kicks puppies" or something.
I will boycott a company if I don't want anything of theirs... I haven't bought anything from Apple. I have been meaning to get a massive iPod though. But Mac's suck for what I do with computers, don't care about the iPad/iPhone. Can't afford 160GB iPod right now. So I guess I'm boycotting Apple, but it's nothing personal.

 

[Loviathan]

SNIP

There's no room for ethics in a free-market.

I'm not completely sure how it works in the US, but anyone in Australia living with the misconception that we have a free market is either functionally retarded or willfully ignorant.

That said, protecting small business, to me, makes economic sense. I do not believe ethics to be the reasoning behind protective economic legislation.

 

[Arachon]

SNIP

There's no room for ethics in a free-market.

True, yet the regulation is still not "Socialism", have you ever heard of a mixed economy?

 

[2xDouble]

BP. Come off it, I hated them before they fked up in the Gulf.
Sears. They ruined my family's credit rating for not using their store credit card.

Other than that, I do my best to weigh products on their own merits (or lack thereof), instead of the people who make it. "Even a blind mouse finds some cheese once in awhile".

 

[Tears of Blood]

I don't choose to boycott a company for a couple of reasons. One missed sale is not going to affect them. And if they make something I want, I'm not gonna say "no I'm not buying that cause their CEO kicks puppies" or something.
I will boycott a company if I don't want anything of theirs... I haven't bought anything from Apple. I have been meaning to get a massive iPod though. But Mac's suck for what I do with computers, don't care about the iPad/iPhone. Can't afford 160GB iPod right now. So I guess I'm boycotting Apple, but it's nothing personal.

A boycott is not an apathy toward a company's products, is the absolute refusal to give money to, purchase from, trade with, or otherwise support an entity, such as a person, company, product, or service.

 

[Micah Weil]

Eh...only company that I'll actively "boycott" is Wal-Mart. Used to work for them, got fired after a manager baited me and I (foolishly) bit. They've become a very "anti-anything that isn't putting money in our pockets", actively firing people (especially if that person has been with the company for quite a while) for the most frivolous things. Recently, they've been refusing to hire people to replace the vacant spots. They expect their employees to take on more and more work, until they eventually burn out (as I did) in a matter so spectacular that the company has no choice but to terminate - and save themselves whatever wage per diem they've been paying.

Eh, I'm just being petty, I guess. I generally dislike the whole "corporate captialism" and "entitlement by money" thing anyway.

 

[Quaidis]

I am pretty much boycotting the same things as the first post (give or take Apple)

Activision I'll be boycotting until they do something about Kotick. Though that will suck when the new GoldenEye is released...

Walmart I try not to go to because it kills small business and has more recently been buying up huge plots of land (Ie, malls that aren't perfect in small towns), tearing them down, and building huge Walmart structures - putting the small stores that were once in the mall in the outskirts of the parking lot. This kills the local grocers in the area, and plunges the small town further into corporate bullhoggery to feed a multi-billion dollar business. Hate it.


Similarly, while I do not boycott against CocaCola as a whole, I refuse to drink Mr Pibb on principle.

 

[Lasharus]

I'm going to say UbiSoft and EA, in terms of gameland. UbiSoft's atrocious new copy protection's pissed me off royally, and even though losing my business won't matter one tiny bloody little bit to 'em, I'm still not buying anything off those bastards until the protection's revoked. I just wish others would too.

EA: Pretty much the same reason, only I feel even more strongly about it. Why? Here's the brief paraphrased summary of their "no more DRM" shoutout for C&C4 (a game which in itself was also a good reason to boycott, given the atrocious quality):

"C&C4 will feature NO DRM! We listen to our customers, and have removed DRM from our games from now on! However, in order to play you must be online 100% of the time, if your internet goes out, you're buggered, if our servers go out, you're buggered. You must also link your CD key to an EA user account in order to bind it to our system for ever and ever and ever.



BUT IT'S NOT DRM!"

Yes it bloody well is you miserable wankers. At least Ubi had the decency to CALL it a DRM.

Oh, and I'd add Activision to the list, but I suppose being an overactive WoW player and a StarCraft II fanatic might disqualify me there. Still bloody hate Kotick though .

(Yes, I know SC2 and WoW are technically not Activision's products, but given ActiBlizzard, Kotick has definitely had his hand in SOME decisions)

 

[Tears of Blood]

2. Wal-Mart (Terrible, evil business practices that kill small businesses)

It's called a free-market. Would you prefer socialism?

Do you know why Wal-Mart is big? Because they are doing something well.

Do you know why Wal-Mart are successful? Because their products are cheap and plentiful.

Wal-mart provides hundred of thousands of jobs for people of all ages and skills - some who would not be able to make a living otherwise.

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I hate it when people look out for the little guy, just because he's little.

Freedom > socialism.

Also, a few of the posts above this one give plenty more reasons why they suck.

Perhaps they employ a lot of people, but most of those people could easily find somewhere else to work, and even if they cannot Wal-Mart is not going to have any problem FIRING them, even if they've been working for them for a long time. Indeed, those are usually the people they get rid of first. There's a Wal-Mart right next to where I work (Home Depot, yes I realize that Home Depot has a similar policy in some areas, but I know for a fact that they don't kill small businesses, because we send our customers their way all the time when they can't get what they need at our store.) and I have heard countless stories about the terrible things they've done to their employees.

If you like Wal-Mart you can just say so, but you don't need to accuse me of being a socialist. Sheesh.

 

[Loviathan]

SNIP

There's no room for ethics in a free-market.

I'm not completely sure how it works in the US, but anyone in Australia living with the misconception that we have a free market is either functionally retarded or willfully ignorant.

That said, protecting small business, to me, makes economic sense. I do not believe ethics to be the reasoning behind protective economic legislation.

Please show me exactly where I said Australia has a free-market.

I'm merely pointing out that not all MEDCs fit into the demograph of free markets most claim to but for many it is illusory in nature, and while the majority of this site's traffic is US in origin (Probably), your statement left a closed door on other countries for whom this thread is relevant.

 

[Tears of Blood]

(Yes, I know SC2 and WoW are technically not Activision's products, but given ActiBlizzard, Kotick has definitely had his hand in SOME decisions)

Yes they are. They're the same company. It's their products. Kotick still gets your money.

1. Blizzard
2. Bioware

Okay... why? I can understand Blizard, but Bioware? Really?

 

[Tears of Blood]

I couldn't care less about Wal-Mart.

I do care about people complaining about big business.

I don't complain about big business in general. I'd be a hypocrite if I did. However, Wal-Mart takes it to the next level in a way that is screwed up. They're just a terrible company, not just because they're big business, but for several reasons.

Hell, in that same post I supported GameStop. I like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. (For the most part.)

 

[Micah Weil]

SNIP

I couldn't care less about Wal-Mart.

I do care about people complaining about big business.

Trust me, "big business" isn't going to give two corn-speckled lumps about you standing up for them. That's why they have lawyers.

Capitalism is a lot like Communism - good in theory. Unfortunately, Stalin has proven that Communism will never work because people are corrupt. The Goldman Sachs, the Enrons, the Wal-Marts, the big businesses that have more or less ensured that this recession of ours is going to continue on for a long time to come have more than proven that Capitalism is a failure of a system as well.

We only cling to it because the only answer to "well, what will we replace Capitalism with?" is "...ya know, I really don't know." We shouldn't be focusing on "making them hurt" so much as finding something to replace them with so we don't end up back in the late 1800s/early 1900s under the Rule of the Wealthy.

Ya know, because I'm a silly, silly optimist. >.>

 

[KaosuHamoni]

Activision, MCD, and Nestle.

 

[Alfador_VII]

Ubisoft - until they get rid of their stupid DRM they brought in with AC II)


Not very happy with Activision, but I like Blizzard games too much to boycott them for now.

As for non-gaming ones.

I'd like to boycott British Telecom, but as they have a virtual monopoly on phone and internet in most of this country I can't. Basically, there's no Cable in my street, and the only phone wire coming into my building belongs to BT. I can go elsewhere for phone and ADSL, but they'd only be re-selling BT's services...

 

[AgentBJ09]

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Companies I'm boycotting,and the reasons why -

Capcom - This is after they made Street Fighter 4 and Resident Evil 5, both of which were terrible sequels that people still praised.

Square Enix - After seeing that they were involved in some of the development of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and it also stems from my time playing Final Fantasy XIII.

Ubisoft - Splinter Cell: Conviction and Kane and Lynch 2. Two sequels that shot the original ideas in the feet. At least some folks, thank you Yahtzee and Angry Joe, saw that the latter was complete garbage and said so.