Any brands you don't buy on principle?

IvaBigWun

Nestlé.

You?

Gummy Panda

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Nestlé.

You?

why Nestlé?

I knew a lad who wouldn't buy their stuff. He said they gave powered milk to some africian country and it killed babies there.

sam34

ballymaloe.

im invisible

apple

Jesus Wept

Any with a non branded alternative that is as good or better.

kfallon

Loads of people have a gripe with Nestle don't they?

As for me, no - I'm an equal opportunities consumer!

Our man in Havana

sam34 wrote: »

ballymaloe.

You can hear the children scream with that stuff.

IvaBigWun

Gummy Panda wrote: »

why Nestlé?

For starters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott

hatz7

Nestle
Coca Cola
KFC
The Examiner
Apple

I'm not militant about it and I don't bang on to others about the reasons but I do try and avoid them.

nursextreme

Dell

Jazzy

Apple. because they break your stuff and then charge you to fix it

SeaFields

Indo and Sindo.

Jesus Wept

Are any of the people on the Nestle ban wagon into the catholic church?

cml387

Gummy Panda wrote: »

why Nestlé?

I knew a lad who wouldn't buy their stuff. He said they gave powered milk to some africian country and it killed babies there.

Boring but necessary explanation:

Nestle relentlessly marketed powdered milk in African countries.Mothers used their products rather than breast milk.
Problem was the water being used to make up the feed was badly polluted in most cases.
Hence dead babies.

gooch2k9

Apple as well.

TeddyTedson

Nestle gave milk to african babies or something then get couldn't use breast milk, then Nestle started charging. Nice not was it.

A lot of clothing brands I don't buy because they're make **** ass **** and charge a fortune. The amount of shops that both rubbish from china and sold it a high designer price was, and still is insane. I'm think of a name here but I better not say. They'll sue the website or something like MCD did, the ****;)

Badgermonkey

Galtee rashers.

It's the white gunk people!

pragmatic1

The mail.

WIZE

United Colors of Benetton

mikemac

Daily Star

After their pictures of motorcycle legend Joey Dunlop. That was 2000 and even the motorsport forum on boards remember the Daily Star

nursextreme

Viagra Ok get it out of your system lads!

reverenddave

microsoft
mcdonalds
burger king
nestle
round-up monsanto
most lidl and aldi and tesco brands
colgate

OutlawPete

The Sun.

Buy other red tops though, just not them.

fontanalis

Acme
For cruelty to coyotes.

Bobjims

Ryanair

TeddyTedson

cml387 wrote: »

Boring but necessary explanation:

Nestle relentlessly marketed powdered milk in African countries.Mothers used their products rather than breast milk.
Problem was the water being used to make up the feed was badly polluted in most cases.
Hence dead babies.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

why Nestlé?

I knew a lad who wouldn't buy their stuff. He said they gave powered milk to some africian country and it killed babies there.

Thanks for clearing that up...Does this make Gummy a saad panda?

fontanalis

cml387 wrote: »

Boring but necessary explanation:

Nestle relentlessly marketed powdered milk in African countries.Mothers used their products rather than breast milk.
Problem was the water being used to make up the feed was badly polluted in most cases.
Hence dead babies.

In fairness, something like that takes a bit of research.

Dudess

Ah it was pretty high profile...

I think people should give reasons for the more obscure ones, e.g.

hatz7 wrote: »

The Examiner

wolf moon

apple
thomson
philips
peugeot

pragmatic1

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Nestle gave milk to african babies or something then get couldn't use breast milk, then Nestle started charging. Nice not was it.

A lot of clothing brands I don't buy because they're make **** ass **** and charge a fortune. The amount of shops that both rubbish from china and sold it a high designer price was, and still is insane. I'm think of a name here but I better not say. They'll sue the website or something like MCD did, the ****;)

You drinking.

im invisible

dont buy anything on credit, i buy everything on principal

Dead Kennedys

wolf moon wrote: »

apple
thomson
philips
peugeot

Why Peugeot??

The Sun newspaper for the following reason...http://www.anfieldroad.com/dont-buy-the-sun/

IvaBigWun

pragmatic1 wrote: »

You drinking.

laros

Coca cola.......Scumbags.....:mad::mad::mad:

Saila

Bobjims wrote: »

Ryanair

I did too..until one of their 'in the middle of nowhere airports' was actually alot closer to where I wanted to go!, havent looked back since, that broke the duck

JDxtra

TV3

RichieC

The Sun.

IvaBigWun

wolf moon wrote: »

thomson
philips
peugeot

Explanations people

tommyhaas

I dont buy the Sun because of their lies in reporting the Hillsborough disaster

http://dontbuythesun.co.uk/site/

df1985

Im considering trying to avoid tesco these days.Theyre getting too powerful.

Blair

Tesco, always have always will.

cml387

The Daily Mail.
I loath this newspaper and what it stands for.
For example:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=50852995

And

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/aug/20/mydailyhell

Bat Fasterd

Sony and Apple due to proprietary issues.

Anything from Israel (via barcodes)

I will however accept freebies from Sony and apple like my work iPhone 3gs and sony laptop

Hail 2 Da Thief

The Sun newspaper after their appalling coverage of the Hillsborough disaster!

STIG83

Ryanair

Joe10000

Sharp, vodafone, AIG, Aon, Umbro and any other brand associated with that club.

meathgal2010

Apple as I dislike Steve Jobs and the brainwashing he does. Plus their products are over priced muck

Dell as anyone I know who has bought one has had a problem with their laptop

Opel as I had an Astra and it spent more time in the Garage than on the road

Heatons as I used to work for them and treated me like crap

mahamageehad

hatz7 wrote: »

Nestle
Coca Cola
KFC
The Examiner
Apple

I'm not militant about it and I don't bang on to others about the reasons but I do try and avoid them.

Why KFC and the examiner??

WIZE wrote: »

United Colors of Benetton

Because of their ads?? Ya some were pretty bad. :mad:
Explanation here(NSFW) for anyone that doesn't know

reverenddave wrote: »

microsoft
mcdonalds
burger king
nestle
round-up monsanto
most lidl and aldi and tesco brands
colgate

Why colgate???

Canard

KFC, self-explanatory. I have a Sony laptop but I'd never buy another - the keys are falling off and my "one year warranty" covers accidental damage only (yeah I purposely ripped my fúcking keys off) and damage to the hard drive. In other words, accidental damage to the hard drive, which is next to impossible. They'd fix it for a few hundred euro. :mad:

IvaBigWun

Joe10000 wrote: »

Sharp, vodafone, AIG, Aon, Umbro and any other brand associated with that club.

Really?

Based on 11 men kicking a ball up and down a field?

Seriously?

Buceph

No brands that I can think of, but there's one shop I refuse to buy anything from.

I was doing 4th year work experience. They were rennovating the shop at the time and asked me to work full time because there was so much going on. I was only supposed to work my school hours. I said grand, worked full time, and stayed late a couple of times as well. Skipped lunch hours and breaks because they were so busy. It came to the end of the week and the bastards gave me nothing, not even a gift voucher, and the boss didn't even say thanks, just opened the door and left me walk out. The school I was in since have taken them off the work experience list as they shouldn't have asked me to work extra hours (officially) and because the lack of a reward (unofficially.)