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Any brands you don't buy on principle?

  • 25-04-2011 5:11pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Nestlé.

    You?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    ballymaloe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    apple


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


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

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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    sam34 wrote: »
    ballymaloe.
    You can hear the children scream with that stuff.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun




  • Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭nursextreme


    Dell


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    Indo and Sindo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,549 ✭✭✭cml387


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭gooch2k9


    Apple as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭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 ****;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭Badgermonkey


    Galtee rashers.

    It's the white gunk people!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    The mail.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    United Colors of Benetton


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭nursextreme


    Viagra :D Ok get it out of your system lads!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭reverenddave


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    The Sun.

    Buy other red tops though, just not them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Acme
    For cruelty to coyotes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 197 ✭✭Bobjims


    Ryanair


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭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.
    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Ah it was pretty high profile...

    I think people should give reasons for the more obscure ones, e.g.
    hatz7 wrote: »
    The Examiner


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    apple
    thomson
    philips
    peugeot


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    dont buy anything on credit, i buy everything on principal


  • Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭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/


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    You drinking.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭laros


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,946 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    TV3


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    The Sun.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    wolf moon wrote: »
    thomson
    philips
    peugeot

    Explanations people


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 210 ✭✭Blair


    Tesco, always have always will.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,549 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Thief


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭STIG83


    Ryanair


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭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?? :confused:
    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
    microsoft
    mcdonalds
    burger king
    nestle
    round-up monsanto
    most lidl and aldi and tesco brands
    colgate
    Why colgate??? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,572 ✭✭✭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:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭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.)


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