Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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#32 25-04-2011 06:25PM

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wolf moon wrote: »

apple
thomson
philips
peugeot

Why Peugeot??

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

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#33 25-04-2011 06:26PM

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pragmatic1 wrote: »

You drinking.

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#34 25-04-2011 06:26PM

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

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#35 25-04-2011 06:26PM

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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

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#36 25-04-2011 06:27PM

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TV3

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#37 25-04-2011 06:28PM

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The Sun.

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#38 25-04-2011 06:28PM

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wolf moon wrote: »

thomson
philips
peugeot

Explanations people

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#39 25-04-2011 06:28PM

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

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

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#40 25-04-2011 06:29PM

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

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#41 25-04-2011 06:29PM

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Tesco, always have always will.

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#42 25-04-2011 06:31PM

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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

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#43 25-04-2011 06:32PM

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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

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#44 25-04-2011 06:33PM

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

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#45 25-04-2011 06:33PM

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Ryanair

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#46 25-04-2011 06:35PM

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

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#47 25-04-2011 06:36PM

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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

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#48 25-04-2011 06:37PM

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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???

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#49 25-04-2011 06:38PM

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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:

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#50 25-04-2011 06:38PM

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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?

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#51 25-04-2011 06:39PM

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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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#52 25-04-2011 06:41PM

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Tesco Value aka Yellow Pack
Abercrombie

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#53 25-04-2011 06:43PM

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My Dolmio day is never !

(simply because their ads annoy the shyte out of me)

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#54 25-04-2011 06:45PM

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Pfizer

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#55 25-04-2011 06:45PM

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Apple
Abercrombie

That's it I think.

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#56 25-04-2011 06:46PM

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Any eggs that aren't free range, and even then free range aren't great. If you can get locally produced from a farm you are much better off, looking forward to getting my own hens again. Battery farms are disgusting.

As someone said Tesco, I have shopped there recently but I have been thinking of how powerful they have gotten and it's too much

I don't buy Budweiser cos it's shite

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#57 25-04-2011 06:47PM

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Yorkie bars.

Because they're 'not for girls'.
Grand then, I'll never buy them again.

Oh wait, your company thinks I, as a female of the species, is so dumb that I'll think 'They're not for girls?! OMG, SCREW YOU, I'm gonna eat then regardless?!'

Eh, no.

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#58 25-04-2011 06:47PM

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pragmatic1 wrote: »

You drinking.

I hate bank holidays and Sundays!
We get the day off work but nobody likes them. They're sooooooo crap. Why can't we replace them with taking the Friday and Thursday off instead in our own time.

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#59 25-04-2011 06:48PM

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Ferrari, Porsche, Armani and Rolex

If only for my principles.... and total lack of money.

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#60 25-04-2011 06:49PM

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fontanalis wrote: »

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

Whereas jumping on a bandwagon without any reasearch is easy, as has been shown in this very thread.

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#61 25-04-2011 06:52PM

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Apple, hate them with a passion.
Will never buy a French car, they are a little bit better now but electrically a nightmare.

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