Any brands you don't buy on principle?

celj · 29-04-2011 2:31pm

Nestle of course for their exploitation of mothers in the third world with baby milk.
Their extensive use of palm oil which has destroyed huge areas of rainforest.

I would never touch ANY of their products,a company with no moralities whatsoever.
SHAME on anyone who uses their products.:mad:

*Except for big bags of Maltesers.I eat a few bags of these a day,they are of course exempt as they are lovely.

Burning Eclipse · 29-04-2011 2:37pm

celj wrote: »

Nestle of course for their exploitation of mothers in the third world with baby milk.
Their extensive use of palm oil which has destroyed huge areas of rainforest.

I would never touch ANY of their products,a company with no moralities whatsoever.
SHAME on anyone who uses their products.:mad:

*Except for big bags of Maltesers.I eat a few bags of these a day,they are of course exempt as they are lovely.

And not actually made by Nestlé at all, but by Mars

celj · 29-04-2011 2:41pm

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

And not actually made by Nestlé at all, but by Mars

HAHA! so they are!
Was only having a laugh anyway,have seen this type of moral rubbish so many times from people!:rolleyes:

murpho999 · 29-04-2011 2:48pm

L'Oreal

Because she's not worth it!

superelliptic · 29-04-2011 3:14pm

Newspapers produced by News International.:mad:

Hate Tabloids.

RussellTuring · 29-04-2011 7:16pm

celj wrote: »

HAHA! so they are!
Was only having a laugh anyway,have seen this type of moral rubbish so many times from people!:rolleyes:

Do you have a problem with other people sticking by their principles?

IvaBigWun · 02-05-2011 4:03pm

Bank Of Ireland based on a terrible reputation

JupiterKid · 02-05-2011 5:34pm

I also boycott all Nestle products.

Nestle are a vile company with their baby milk formula products in the third world and thie involvement in the destruction of the tropical rain forest for palm oil plantations.

Lux23 · 02-05-2011 5:42pm

IvaBigWun wrote: »

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

You don't buy Nestle because of something they did in the 1970s?

I could decide not to but brands because they have questionable methods but sure that would mean I would have to go around naked and only eat food I produce myself.

dr.bollocko · 02-05-2011 6:16pm

http://gizmodo.com/#!5406415/laptop-reliability-study-asus-and-toshiba-come-out-on-top
Ere is a pdf:
http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/laptop-reliability-1109/

downey2003 · 05-05-2011 6:04pm

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

Guy:Incognito · 05-05-2011 6:14pm

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?

dr.bollocko · 05-05-2011 6:58pm

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.

BraziliaNZ · 05-05-2011 7:06pm

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.

xoixo · 05-05-2011 7:13pm

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?

fedor.2. · 05-05-2011 7:19pm

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?

eilo1 · 05-05-2011 7:25pm

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

Paparazzo · 05-05-2011 7:25pm

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.

lucozader · 05-05-2011 8:17pm

eircom

MadameCholet · 05-05-2011 8:30pm

Hunky Dorys

upinthesky · 05-05-2011 9:15pm

Fiat cars are not great imo!

amacachi · 05-05-2011 9:19pm

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.

vicwatson · 05-05-2011 9:27pm

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

PinkFly · 05-05-2011 9:28pm

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:

obliviousgrudge · 05-05-2011 9:29pm

Apple.
The Sun.

yoyo · 05-05-2011 9:59pm

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Currys are good though yeah?

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

Nick

ayeboy · 05-05-2011 10:53pm

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?

adunis · 13-10-2020 8:50am

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

screamer · 13-10-2020 8:53am

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.

storker · 13-10-2020 9:00am

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

Ted_YNWA · 13-10-2020 9:07am

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

Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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