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People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them

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We’ve all had those moments when we’ve said we’ll never buy from a certain company again. Whether it’s due to a frustrating customer service experience, unethical business practices, massive company controversies, or just overall dissatisfaction with the product or service, it’s easy to get fed up with a company and vow to never give them our business again.

But it turns out we’re not alone in feeling this way. In fact, a recent survey from LendingTree found that about 1 in 4 American consumers are currently boycotting a company they spent money on in the past due to bad experiences or values that didn’t align with their own. And with the power of social media and online reviews, it’s easier than ever for consumers to share their grievances and warn others about brands to avoid.

We recently stumbled upon a Reddit post where people shared which brands they’ll never buy from again — and the little thing was basically begging to be shared here on Bored Panda.

We spent an unhealthy amount of time reading which companies people say you should avoid like the plague, and the responses were nothing short of epic. From big corporations to fast fashion brands, it’s clear that no company is immune to the wrath of unhappy customers, as consumers have a zero-tolerance policy for BS. But don’t just take our word for it — check out this list of brands people have sworn off for good. But be warned, this list may inspire you to join the boycott brigade.

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#1

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Any brand made by the Kardashian/Jenners."

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118points

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#2

"Acme - I've seen documentaries on how their product hurt Coyotes."

Klotzster Report

117points

#3

"Any brand that is in anyway associated with Kanye."

reddit.com Report

111points

#4

"Jimmy Johns. When I saw a pic of the CEO holding up the head of a giraffe after he killed it for sport I've never gone there since. Sickening."

GreenEyedRose Report

97points

#5

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Anything Elon Musk. A long time ago I thought he was cool. That kinda wore off..."

TheShortWhiteGiraffe Report

97points

#6

"ANY kind of Multi-Level Marketing company (aka Pyramid Schemes)"

GrammyPammy332 Report

78points

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#7

hellogriff wrote:
"Mypillow."

PantlessAvenger replied:
"It's a bag of shredded foam. I'll never understand how that company got as big as it did."

hellogriff Report

70points

#8

"Nestle. All my homies hate Nestle."

elriodemontana Report

69points

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#9

"Apple. Overpriced and overrated."

65points

#10

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Trump Super Hero trading cards FFS."

Sand_Juggler_FTW Report

64points

#11

"Any of those overpriced designer clothing brands like supreme."

SorakaWithAids Report

63points

#12

"Not that I'm the target audience, but GOOP. sounds like a cultist capitalist's wet dream."

boblywobly99 Report

62points

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#13

"Abercrombie and Fitch. Purely based in principle. I know there’s a new owner but I remember when their racist tshirts were all the rage and when ‘fat’ people weren’t allowed to wear their clothes. Based on that alone, they are dead to me."

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56points

#14

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Chick-fil-a."

clonerluke1 Report

55points

#15

kingbouncerwrote:
"Luis Vuitton."

picklesandmustard replied:
"I don’t understand LV. It’s ugly overpriced plastic."

kingbouncer Report

52points

#16

JonnyZero0 wrote:
"Tesla."

Tom__mm replied:
"Couple of years ago, might have considered it. Now, never."

JonnyZero0 Report

51points

#17

"Balenciaga has entered the chat."

Previous_Basil Report

50points

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#18

"Wells Fargo. They screwed SO. MANY. PEOPLE."

ew_its_sticky Report

47points

#19

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Logan Paul."

ImMinistrim Report

46points

#20

"Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, LuLaRoe, DoTerra Oils, Young Living Oils, Norwex, It Works! etc. Any and all of the MLM's."

Carrann823 Report

45points

#21

"DKNY after she supported Harvey Weinstein."

Ancient_Exercise4939 Report

45points

#22

"Starbucks. Coffee is part of my life and my life is precious."

stillbarefoot Report

45points

#23

"SheaMoisture Hair products. I have major issues with the ingredients they list and the sustainability of sourcing them. Example, anything they say contains Baobab (Adansonia) oil is majorly suspicious. I was born and raised in Sothern Africa and the clusters of trees are 100km apart, with a few fruit here and there, they take hundreds of years to fruit, if at all. It just isn't right. Also, the one product they said contained Mafura - thats literally the word for oil - So, what oil? Its just marketing using "Africa" like we are fools and I will not support this."

SundaeSwimming128 Report

43points

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#24

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Nike & Hersheys come to mind for their child labor and human rights issues."

DeathByChainsaw Report

43points

#25

"Hobby Lobby."

Princess_Shireen Report

43points

#26

"Anything that has the “As Seen on TV” logo on the box."

00-quanta- Report

40points

#27

"Shein and wish."

Undead_crybaby Report

39points

#28

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "The ones that constantly pay YouTube channels to do spots for them. It just makes me very suspicious of their quality. Raycon is a good example."

RahvinDragand Report

38points

#29

"Fiji water.

Aside from wild overpricing of ALL bottled water, that brand is utterly anti-environment. The bottles are made in China, shipped thousands of miles to Fiji, and filled with admittedly good-tasting water. But they're then put back on a ship, and sailed more thousands of miles to the west coast, put on trucks and trains, and shipped east.

When you work it all out, the amount of oil burnt to get that bottle to you would half-fill the bottle.

Compare to a local bottled water, or even better, tap water in a reusable bottle."

cryptoengineer Report

37points

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#30

"I try to avoid Walmart."

StewIsSoup Report

36points

#31

"Amazon. Cancelled my account a few months ago and found out there are a lot of online Shops with better prices and fast delivery."

caeptn2te Report

35points

#32

atticusjackson wrote: "Yeezys."

uncultured_swine2099 replied:
"Adidas ripped up their contract with him so he cant profit off them anymore, but I see what you mean. I wouldn't want to wear anything associated with him either."

atticusjackson Report

33points

#33

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Apple, and Kardashian brand Tiffany and co., and etc."

33points

#34

"Disney."

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33points

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#35

Negative-Pin8540 wrote:
"Herbalife."

Anonimouse13579 replied:
"I did a bit of research on Herbalife a few years ago after someone i met was spruiking the benefits of power tea and adding five different drinks together and it was sooo much better than coffee because caffeine is bad. Well the power tea is essentially a caffeine drink. On one page of the website they are calling out how bad caffeine is for you. But it is in most of their powders."

Negative-Pin8540 Report

32points

#36

"Lyft.

Driver did not speak English, picked up another passenger who thought it was THEIR car, drove the wrong passenger to my address before realizing the mistake, called me to ask what was going on but again, could not speak English so not sure how much he understood, but I could hear the passenger in the background telling the driver it was not his house. I watched the driver driving around for another 20 mins on the app before marking the ride “completed”. Tried to get a refund for the ride and Lyft rejected it saying the driver had been at both the pick up and drop off locations, tried to contest this but was sent on a loop of try to get a refund, then get denied again- there’s no way to talk to a person or call an 800 number, just website & app. Finally gave up as it was only a loss of $20 but still infuriating."

32points

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#37

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Brand name medicine. Why pay multiple times more for the same stuff with a fancy logo. Just compare the generic brands label to brand name to be sure."

SomeRandomPerson66 Report

31points

#38

"Dyson:

Overpriced toys-are-us quality. Great British inventor that takes his factories to Asia to make more profit at first chance. Now buying up a ton of farm land in the UK to avoid inheritance tax and driving up land prices."

30points

#39

"Red Bull."

ThatsBasonJourne Report

30points

#40

obese_latvian_woman wrote:
"Summers Eve."

Capital_Refuse_160 replied:
"So completely unnecessary and straight harmful to lady bits. I’ll never understand why that type of stuff is popular"

obese_latvian_woman Report

29points

#41

"Liberty Mutual, solely because I'm tired of being bombarded with their adverts."

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27points

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#42

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "If it can be classed as such... COMCAST."

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26points

#43

"Samsung. Had a 16 month old 70in TV die and they reached out to me and offered to repair it at no charge because it was a known issue. A month later the repair facility cancelled the service ticket and when I called Samsung to ask why they told me that parts were unavailable… because so many had broken they used all the parts up and aren’t making more. Then they told me they would replace the TV… a week later they emailed to tell me they would not be replacing it. But encouraged me to have a non Samsung repair facility fix it… even though nobody has the parts.

They know the model has issues and did nothing after promising over and over that they would stand behind the product because Samsung cares and all that."

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26points

#44

neevel-knievel wrote:
"23 and me."

cake--96 replied:
"I really want to try one of these just for the info, but I just can't handle the idea of handing over my DNA like that"

neevel-knievel Report

26points

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#45

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "You know every time I try to avoid a brand it turns out they're owned by a brand that owns most of the competitors too, or the competitors are worse. I will say any fashion brand though. I will buy my clothes on clearance. I don't need $130 tennis shoes and $80 jeans."

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26points

#46

"Those mean girls from high school that now have a “company” on Facebook. It’s usually simple decals or makeup."

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25points

#47

"Electronic Arts. Anything made by them is usually a monetized piece of garbage now-a-days."

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24points

#48

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Papa John’s."

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23points

#49

"American Greetings. They bought up the drive in theater next to their corporate headquarters then moved out a few years later. That drive in was an affordable night out for a lot of families in a low income neighborhood and was always packed."

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#50

"I will never purchase Charmin toilet paper as long as I live. Those foul toilet paper bears absolutely disgust and enrage me."

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19points

#51

"Blizzard. They make ok games and amazing scandals."

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19points

#52

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Soilent Green meat substitute."

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19points

#53

"Ford. We had a ‘12 Focus that had a faulty transmission. Ford knew about it before they sold the cars. Transmission stalls have caused some deaths bc the car sometimes stops in an intersection. Car is long gone, still waiting on the mass action lawsuit to end."

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#54

"Since so many other high fashion brands are already (rightly) getting dumped on… Escada. Every time I have ever handled an Escada piece, it was falling apart at the seams. That includes NWT pieces!"

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#55

"Nike."

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#56

"Reebok.

My grandparents operated a pretty fancy Italian restaurant in Florida.

Some dude came through and was a huge d*ck to everyone. My grandparents asked him to leave and he ranted about how he basically owned Reebok and how he could ruin them and police wouldn’t even arrest him if they were called.

I forgot his title but he wasn’t the CEO. Anyways, he didn’t represent Reebok well with my family."

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#57

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Welsh’s brand grape jelly or jam. My grandfather was in ww2 Welch’s gave jelly to the servicemen. The ones they got were substandard- filled with seeds and twigs. So my grandfather forbid Welch’s in our houses."

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17points

#58

"Razer I used to buy their mice. Breaks after a year. I still have a Logitech g5 one bought over 10 years ago that still works."

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17points

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#59

"Dodge. Neon. Enough said."

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17points

#60

"Huawei. Mostly because they are banned in the US."

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16points

#61

"Abercrombie. Hated it in the 90s/early 00's. Hate it still."

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16points

#62

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Smithfield pork products of any kind."

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15points

#63

"Dollskill, yeah they have cool clothes but I don't like the company."

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14points

#64

"BrewDog. From their extraordinarily toxic bro culture to the CEO trying to turn himself into the victim, this company is garbage. James Watt is human sc*m, and their beer is sh*t."

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#65

"Definitely Frontier Airlines. They trick you with a “cheap” ticket up front and then suck money out of you through all these extra fees."

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#66

"Harley."

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#67

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Gerber."

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#68

"Bayer. Why? Look up "Blood Scandals of the Eighties"."

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#69

"Hisense. Bought a smart tv of that brand that lasted 3 days before it shut off for good. Returned it and got a Samsung that worked perfectly."

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#70

"I might possibly be done with Subaru unless they overhaul their entire infotainment system.

But definitely Domino's Pizza. Not because of any bad customer service experience, their pizza is just awful."

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#71

"800 kars 4 kids. I turn off the radio (yes radio) when I hear it."

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#72

People Share Which Companies They Avoid Like The Plague, Here Are 75 Of Them "Chrysler."

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#73

"There’s a hat brand called Boston Scally. I was a dedicated customer, had 10 of them. I got an order of 2-4 more in while I was on the road for work, the quality of the hats sucked, I tried to return them and was told it was outside their return window. Never again. Garbage quality, garbage service."

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#74

"Fairlife."

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#75

jordanscollected wrote:
"Subway."

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"I found a bone in my roast beef sandwich there… never again…"

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I'm Neilas, Content Production Manager for Bored Panda in the Home & Design category. In this role, I try to ensure the quality of our articles to bring the best possible web surfing experience to our readers. I love a well-structured, informative, and illustrative article, whether it's for design ideas, gardening solutions, or cute dogs and cats. I made it my mission to ensure our readers get to experience the same thing. As for my personal interests, I produce music, sometimes go out and take pictures of nice stuff, and have petrol running through my veins. I'm an avid fan of Formula 1 and Motorsport in general, taking every chance I get to burn some rubber at local go-cart tracks. Of course, movies, gaming, and racing simulators are a big part of my daily life, too.

Melanie Gervasoni

Writer on a quest to explore every corner of the world, one country at a time. Fueled by my love for Arcane, oversized hoodies, and weightlifting, I try my best to bring even more fun energy to Bored Panda. My cup of tea? Pop culture, funny content, sharing interesting facts about the world, and creating listicles for fellow Pandas. When I’m not crafting articles, my eyes are still glued to a screen — be it binge-watching my favorite shows, leveling up in video games, or learning Spanish with Duolingo. Always on the hunt for the ultimate playlist, I scour Deezer to find the right tunes to listen to while working on my creative projects.

Writer on a quest to explore every corner of the world, one country at a time. Fueled by my love for Arcane, oversized hoodies, and weightlifting, I try my best to bring even more fun energy to Bored Panda. My cup of tea? Pop culture, funny content, sharing interesting facts about the world, and creating listicles for fellow Pandas. When I’m not crafting articles, my eyes are still glued to a screen — be it binge-watching my favorite shows, leveling up in video games, or learning Spanish with Duolingo. Always on the hunt for the ultimate playlist, I scour Deezer to find the right tunes to listen to while working on my creative projects.

What do you think ?

K- THULU 1 year ago

Apple.... Screw that cult...

6points

Colin Matthews 1 year ago

agreed. strange isn't it.

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smugdruggler 1 year ago

TikTok. It's basically malware with videos, scraping all the info it can and sending it to China.

2points

Paul Werner 1 year ago

Starbucks

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K- THULU 1 year ago

Apple.... Screw that cult...

6points

Colin Matthews 1 year ago

agreed. strange isn't it.

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smugdruggler 1 year ago

TikTok. It's basically malware with videos, scraping all the info it can and sending it to China.

2points

Paul Werner 1 year ago

Starbucks

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