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Which brands have you had bad experiences with or don’t trust?
- Thread starter Lightning Count
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Virgin Media broadband!! The worst company I have had to deal with ever. It's a good thing I went for a monthly rolling contract and cancelled after a short while.
The Internet stopped working for hours and days at a time. Their engineers sometimes never showed up for a scheduled visit. When they show up they say all is fine and go back. And worst of all their telephone support outright lie. They make claims about how they have made some changes and now the connection will be perfect etc. You get sent from one person to the next in a frustrating merry-go-round and its very hard to get to speak to someone senior or local. They told me I was not allowed to speak to a technical expert. I don't blame the telephone operators for not being able to solve problems - they don't have a clue what is happening with the network just like their customers don't. But they must be told to appease the callers and say whatever keeps them happy because the have no solutions and don't know what is happening. In the end I managed to speak to an operator from the UK who said there is nothing they can do to solve the problems and he was understanding when I decided to end the contract. That was nice of him.
The Internet stopped working for hours and days at a time. Their engineers sometimes never showed up for a scheduled visit. When they show up they say all is fine and go back. And worst of all their telephone support outright lie. They make claims about how they have made some changes and now the connection will be perfect etc. You get sent from one person to the next in a frustrating merry-go-round and its very hard to get to speak to someone senior or local. They told me I was not allowed to speak to a technical expert. I don't blame the telephone operators for not being able to solve problems - they don't have a clue what is happening with the network just like their customers don't. But they must be told to appease the callers and say whatever keeps them happy because the have no solutions and don't know what is happening. In the end I managed to speak to an operator from the UK who said there is nothing they can do to solve the problems and he was understanding when I decided to end the contract. That was nice of him.
Worked IT in college doing deployments and refreshes at the start of semesters.
Seagates were tremendous pieces of shit. Slow as fuck to spin-up and clone. Horrible track record with failures and replacement. Only beaten in the shitness department by Hitachi DeskStar drives.
WD drives on the other hand tended to run faster and remain stable at the same level of use and age. I pretty much shy away from using any other brand if I need to use a mechanical drive on one of my machines.
I don't trust any brands. But I've had bad experiences with a few that have led me to not give them any more money- Sony for TVs, Nissan and Chrysler+Dodge for cars, Apple for mobile devices. It's a shame about Sony because they were legendary with their Trinitron TVs. Post-CRT world they are really bad.
Seagate is an absolute no-go for me. They had a coupe of year of HDDs in the mid-00's that were abysmal. Failure rate was 100% for me. I had two. Both died. They sent me replacements. Both died. After that I said "fuck it", went back to mostly WD and the Japanese brands like Hitachi.
Seagate is an absolute no-go for me. They had a coupe of year of HDDs in the mid-00's that were abysmal. Failure rate was 100% for me. I had two. Both died. They sent me replacements. Both died. After that I said "fuck it", went back to mostly WD and the Japanese brands like Hitachi.
Sony. More specifically the PSN part of Sony. I have had so many issues with my PSN account over the years that I am at the point where I will stop buying Sony consoles before I even think about going heavily digital with them. Out of all the accounts I have all over the internet only Sony seems to show an inability to properly secure my account.
Can't believe I'm the first to mention RyanAir. Every flight we've had with them there has been some problem. Stuck in boarding lounge, changing gates, flights cancelled and amalgamated...
Yeah, their OS blows. It's like they took a close look at what Sony did, said "fuck all this," and then threw something together to hit their ship date.
But why would anyone buy a Nissan Cube on purpose? I mean... just look at it. Why?
YUP. Never getting a Samsung TV again. These garbage streaks started to appear, along with random flashes. The smarthub crashes all the time. Just a piece of junk all around. And their customer service was incredibly unhelpful. All in under 2 years too. I have a smaller version of the same TV that while the picture quality isn't bad, the screen gets all distorted randomly.
I had massive issues with my 2011 MBP. Those three years you mentioned were terrible for Apple.
I also want to mention Razer. Their quality is some of the worst I've seen with more expensive keyboards. I've had good luck with all of my Logitech purchases.
Yuuup. I had a Seagate drop dead for no reason and had to pay $1200 to recover it because it was years-worth of vacation photos and at that time I was too lazy to make secondary backups (which I do now religiously). That $1200 was after a 15% discount too; I used the vendor my company uses and they were nice enough to extend it to this job.
Never again.
I have had really bad experiences with GM cars.
Samsung appliances have been shit in my experience. I like their TVs though and their phones seem pretty reliable from what I can see from my friends.
Most budget airlines are really pretty horrible in my experience. Spirit, Allegiant, etc.
Every cable or satellite company that I have ever used.
Samsung appliances have been shit in my experience. I like their TVs though and their phones seem pretty reliable from what I can see from my friends.
Most budget airlines are really pretty horrible in my experience. Spirit, Allegiant, etc.
Every cable or satellite company that I have ever used.
I have had really bad experiences with GM cars.
Samsung appliances have been shit in my experience. I like their TVs though and their phones seem pretty reliable from what I can see from my friends.
Most budget airlines are really pretty horrible in my experience. Spirit
Samsung appliances have been shit in my experience. I like their TVs though and their phones seem pretty reliable from what I can see from my friends.
Most budget airlines are really pretty horrible in my experience. Spirit
Ford. My first two cars were hand-me-down Ford cars, a Taurus and a Ranger, from the late 90s. Both died at less than 100,000 miles and were pretty worthless before that point. I don't think anything would get me to buy an American car, actually. The first car I bought myself was a 2015 Kia Forte and it was a pretty great buy for such a cheap car. It felt cheap in terms of comfort, but was totally reliable and functional. I replaced that car with a 2018 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. It's been a bit more trouble than I was expecting from a Toyota but it feels totally mechanically solid and I have no doubt it'll last long after my Fords shat the bed.
Crest toothpaste. Their Pro Health line of toothpaste fucked up my mouth, causing dead skin to slough off from my gums and inner cheeks, and staining the inside of my teeth brown. My dentist asked me if I was a cigarette smoker because of the staining (I've never smoked tobacco or weed). And it's not just me. Go to Amazon and look up Crest Pro Health toothpaste and check the critical reviews. A lot of people complain about it burning off the top layer of their gums/cheeks and staining their teeth. When I finally found out it was all caused by my toothpaste, I was pissed and vowed never to buy Crest again.
Ever tried to change the thermal paste and make sure things were not clogged full of dust? Never happened to me and I have OG PS4.
First post nails it, Razer stuff is just straight up brittle and none of their peripherals have lasted me very long.
This one as well! one silver lining of 2020 is that I haven't had the need to deal with Ryanair.
Speaking only of issues I've had multiple times, so establish a pattern:
Hewlet-Packard products, particularly printers and laptops. I imagine that's all they do now anyway.
Dairy Queen
American Airlines
Verizon
Hewlet-Packard products, particularly printers and laptops. I imagine that's all they do now anyway.
Dairy Queen
American Airlines
Verizon
I'm always wary of Fedex after one time I caught a delivery person leaving packages outside of the apartment building (vs getting buzzed in and leaving them in the lobby).
Seagate: Multiple HDD failures, terrible customer support. I will give them credit, for finally turning me on to multiple backups.
Chipotle: I should have learned after getting norovirus (confirmed by health department), and then them losing my CC info in a data breach, but I went back because I genuinely enjoyed the food, then I got sick again.
That graphics card/logic board era completely turned me off of macbooks for a long time. Its only recently that i have started to dip my toe back in. Without that applecare its just too mcuh of a risk for as much money as those things cost
Agreed.
It still makes me disappointed when I think about the Razer Onza Xbox 360 controller I used to have, what a piece of shit that was.
Burger King burnt my burger once and it took me about 20 years to give them another chance.
Whataburger forgot the burger in my burger about 10 years ago and they are in the same boat BK used to be in.
Whataburger forgot the burger in my burger about 10 years ago and they are in the same boat BK used to be in.
Apple. The lack of quality in their laptops is criminal. Every time I say I'm going to move off Macs but they're best for my work. It's fucking ridiculous how often they die, batteries fail, OS updates tank a machine, etc. Awful stuff.
I'm of two minds, because I had a mouse from them that broke after 4 months, but they sent me a much more expensive mouse as a replacement for free, and they did it pretty quickly. So, I mean, I definitely believe they have build quality issues, but I also think they have good CS and warranty coverage.
I would probably buy another razer product even though I've had some quality issue in the past.
I don't trust any brand because there's no reason to. Specifically when it comes to companies I won't make purchases from due to bad experiences, I'd say anything from the Wizarding World. JK Rowling is a not so good human being and I prefer to spend my money elsewhere.
Hmm... Wonder if they got better over the years? Some of their newer stuff has been getting good reviews from actually dedicated reviewers like RocketJumpNinja (not just the mainstream sites). I've been curious about them, but the old stigma still exists for me.
As for the thread itself, dunno. Maybe the fact that my WD portable HDD broke at the USB port and when I opened it up, it turned out the port was soldered to the drive itself? I assume that's how it's done in all prebuilt external disks, but it was my first external disk since the early 00s when I had a caddy mounted in one of the CD drive slots, with a standard HDD in it.