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Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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    #662
    downey2003
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭downey2003


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Sony- crap returns process and DRM tech
    Apple- DRM and other dodgy biz practices
    Starbucks- way they swarm an area and make locals close
    Indo or Sunday Indo- for obvious right wing trash
    Any of the red top papers- full of lies
    Anything from Israel- for obvious reasons
    Dental items with fluoride- too much in our water already
    Anything owned by Rupert Murdoch- he has too much media power
    Tommy Hilfiger, Abercrombie, Nike, Ben Sherman, Kickers- so I dont look like a twat or knack
    Any fizzy drinks- dont want diabetes!

    Anything from Israel - No reason is NOT obvious. Are you a Palestinian? :cool:
    Fizzy drinks don't give you Diabetes.:D


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    #663
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Maldjd23 wrote: »
    Renault..Can't stand Bill Cullen..I don't care about scrappage...You will never see one penny of my money.

    Other than him owning a few garages that sell Renault cars, he has no connection to Renault themselves.

    yoyo wrote: »
    Anyways my list of avoided companies:
    Apple, Sony, PC World, Dixons, Ryanair, Eircom, Vodafone (since switching from them am saving an absolute fortune!)

    Nick

    Currys are good though yeah?


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    #664
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    ESB, (a joke of a company) Eircom (no smart economy with these clowns), Subway (No, actually a foot long hunk of bread is not healthy) and Starbucks.


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    #665
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Try not to buy Israeli produce because every Israeli I've met has been insufferable. Watch out for baby potatoes a lot of them are produced there.


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    #666
    xoixo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭xoixo


    Kold wrote: »
    MCD as much as I can. I think they ruin the live music industry in Ireland.

    Always heard people say this but never heard reasons.
    Any one explain why/how?


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    #667
    fedor.2.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭fedor.2.


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Try not to buy Israeli produce because every Israeli I've met has been insufferable. Watch out for baby potatoes a lot of them are produced there.

    How many have you met?


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    #668
    eilo1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭eilo1


    I have a gripe with Brown Thomas.

    About 10 years ago they where selling a pink pony skin full length jacket.
    I know its silly but it was the fact that they had dyed the leather pink that just got to me!! Poor pony!:o


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    #669
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,398 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Israelis are horrible people when travelling. I remember a big thread on the lonely planet website about worst nationality abroad. Israelis won it by a mile.


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    #670
    lucozader
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭lucozader


    eircom


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    #671
    MadameCholet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭MadameCholet


    Hunky Dorys


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    #672
    upinthesky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,389 ✭✭✭upinthesky


    Fiat cars are not great imo!


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    #673
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Used to love Abrakebabra but haven't bought anything since Jedward started starring in their adverts.

    I also now hope that every child dies since UNICEF or whoever started a campaign with Jedward fronting it.


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    #674
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Ballymaloe

    Gap

    Nike
    Try not to buy Israeli produce

    +1
    Watch out for baby potatoes a lot of them are produced there

    And Sweet Potatoes (sometimes disguised as being from USA in supermarkets)

    Oh and all KETER plastic products (they also make plastic products for Black and Decker - they are all Israeli products


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    #675
    PinkFly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭PinkFly


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Try not to buy Israeli produce because every Israeli I've met has been insufferable. Watch out for baby potatoes a lot of them are produced there.

    they grow spuds out side of Ireland :eek::eek::eek:


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    #676
    obliviousgrudge
    Registered Users Posts: 703 ✭✭✭obliviousgrudge


    Apple.
    The Sun.


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    #677
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,011 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Currys are good though yeah?

    Anything in the DSG group then, forgot about them...

    Nick

    My Beer Glass collection site 🍺

    My Irish Callcards site



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    #678
    ayeboy
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭ayeboy


    Triple AAA Golden Maverick .... played a prominent role in the creation of the European Butter Mountain...Then Paddy saw how easy it was to get money for nothing from our European friends. And were are we now?


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    #679
    adunis
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭adunis


    Apple cos you don't have to pay for anything on Android....

    Samsung phone cos I don't like their interfaces
    Samsung watches cos Samsung pay is useless


    Petrol/diesel vehicle unless it's about 30 years old
    Cos I was a mechanic and am an EV fanboy


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    #680
    screamer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,134 ✭✭✭screamer


    Ballymaloe, and anything made in China as much as possible, not always possible because we have sold ourselves out for so much production to them, but I do try and source alternatives.


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    #681
    storker
    Registered Users Posts: 5,646 ✭✭✭storker


    An annoying advert is much more likely to make me avoid a product than a principle. :)


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    #682
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Bumping 9 year old threads doesn't happen on principle either


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