Are you boycotting any companies?

[Reggie Rock]

I refuse to buy any Bioware products until Hepler is gone. Just knowing that a single cent of my money could go to her sickens me.

 

[Nyaliva]

A few people have already said them and they're more in the category of "You couldn't pay me to use even one product they put out" but my top three consist of Facebook, Twitter and Apple. I try to avoid EA, partially for their horrible business models but also because they mostly put out sports games which I don't like. Otherwise I generally avoid large supermarket chains if I can help it and I go for the local grocers. I keep meaning to head down to the farm that's like 5 minutes away and see if they can deliver veggies straight to my place for cheaper than the supermarkets...

Anyway, I'm mostly a "find the brand I like and stick to it" kind of guy but what can really make me dislike a company is the ads they put out, which has a good deal to do with why I dislike Apple so much.

Also speaking of Apple, has anyone seen the new HTC phones? They're awesome! I say to every iPhone user, throw it away and get a HTC, they're a hell of a lot better and they don't make you look like as much of a hipster douche!

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

Well, sort of EA. Just because they have nothing really worth it, though. On the other hand, I bought Spore last month - I don't know if that counts.

That's not really a boycott, then. Boycotting is when you flat-out refuse to buy from a company regardless of the quality of the product. If you just don't like the product, then you just aren't a customer. Your Activision example is a little more on key with a boycott. With EA is seems just that nothing with their name interests you; it's not that you're boycotting them, there's just no reason for you to buy their product. Where with Activision you were interested in a game up until you saw their name attached to it.

 

[FamoFunk]

I try really hard not to buy Nestle products, it's obvious when something has "Nestle" written on it or if you know it's something part of Nestle under a different name. But damnit they have their greedy little claws in so many fucking things that I'd say I 90% boycott them.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Just Apple because it's horrendously overpriced crap. I'm not boycotting anything because of bad business practices. I could pretend to be all politically correct about it, but the truth is that I just don't care.

 

[Nightmare-Child]

Currently Capcom, and Blizzard. Square Enix is very close to joining the list though.

 

[Easton Dark]

I refuse to buy any Bioware products until Hepler is gone. Just knowing that a single cent of my money could go to her sickens me.

What? Why's Hepler so bad? Is this about her not liking games?

 

[ElPatron]

I don't buy EA or Ubisoft, but because of personal choice, not "boycott".

 

[Shadow5]

I don't buy products from Nestle, don't like their use of non-plantation palm oil and palm sugar

 

[SecondPrize]

I boycott Budweiser because I met a couple of the people who owned the company once, and they were tremendous douches, so I do my best not to give that family a cent of my money, no matter how indirectly it might reach them. It doesn't hurt my cause that their beer is awful. When I drink beer, I will pay for the better stuff 9 times out of 10, but if I have to drink shitty beer, then I will choose a shitty beer that isn't Budweiser. Even Natty Light.

Natty Light, good god. That horrible beer got me through college, at 7 bucks a case.

 

[SkullKing84]

I avoid Applebees. I kept getting foreign objects i my food... even at locations in other states. Metal shavings, broken off pencil head, paper clip.

 

[kommando367]

Since consoles don't have DRM, I don't really share the hatred my PC brethren have for it.

DRM is deeply part of a console's OS, try copying a disk or cracking the software and loading it to the hard drive. Trust me, consoles are controlling users in DRM like fashion more than the DRM you find on PC's.

I stand corrected. Still, it doesn't usually cause the same problems as on certain PC games like not being able to play a game while servers are offline.

 

[Greni]

Outright refuse to buy Nike, and always check the work/business ethics of other companies likely to go with the "made by children for children" approach.

Edit:

I don't buy products from Nestle, don't like their use of non-plantation palm oil and palm sugar

THAT is the reason you refuse to buy Nestlé?

How about:
Convincing mothers that their milk lacking in nutrients was healthier than breast milk:
http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/nestle-corporate-controversy/9/3/2009/id/23460
Willingly and knowingly using what is essentially slave labour to harvest their chocolate. (Granted many more companies that produce sweets are aware but that does not make this acceptable):
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12754%22
Just a general list of their naughtiness aforementioned and otherwise:
http://www.methodist.org.uk/downloads/ei_nestle_consultation_CFB_briefing_note_Nov_2004_final.pdf

 

[Jaythulhu]

Outright? Ubisoft for their shitty engine that still fails on semi-modern hardware & newer (still pissed about wasting $130 on the F3 collector's ed);
Blizzard for storing my credit card number uncensored in my account page and using tissue thin security to protect it (my account was hacked and my cc number used to buy 2 years of wow and a ton of stuff in thailand);
finally, Bonds clothing company for shutting down all of their Australian operations, sacking every worker, giving the executives huge bonuses and shipping all the jobs to slave labour sweatshops in china (probably next door to the nike & apple factories).

 

[Tourette]

EA,Bioware for failing to deliver with SWTOR and their lying ways.
Activsion,Infinity Ward for them screwing up with PC MW2.

 

[Catfood220]

Also refusing to talk to Lloyds bank, for the fact they are charging me £5 (to go up to £6) should I dare to go into my overdraft. It takes the piss just a little bit as they had a tax payer bailout a couple of years ago so it kinda feels like I'm paying for this banks survival twice.

So what, you expect them to give you the product you requested and agreed to, for free? Just don't use it if it worries you that much. If you need it, then you need to agree to their terms. that simple.

To be fair, I never asked for it, it was just kinda given to me and up until a couple of years ago it was pretty much free, just a couple of pence for the interest you accrued on the overdraft. If thy had changed their terms when money wasn't so tight, I wouldn't have been happy, but I would have been "fair enough". But to introduce it when everyone is struggling for money I think is taking the piss, its a tax on the poor when the heads of these banks still earn millions in bonuses and as soon as I find a better job which will hopefully be in the next 6 months, I'm going to change my bank.

Yes maybe I am being a little entitled about this, but I maintain my right to be annoyed about now having to pay for something that I had use of for free for about 15 years.

 

[NightShade]

Anything made or affilliated with PepsiCo, like 7up, Mountain Dew, Lay's crisps, Gatorade, Tropicana, Doritos, Lipton, Cheetos and, of course, Pepsi and it's variants. It's a shame because I used to quite like Doritos.

Any reason why?
I work next to their Head Office and you get so many bags of Walkers Crisps free.

Crap! They make Walkers, forgive me mother.

In all honesty, I don't neccessarily boycott them, but, if I have an option, I will eat the non-PepsiCo product

 

[Agow95]

I don't use facebook but thats due to not feeling a need to than a active boycott.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Not so much a boycott as 'not interested in anything they make or do and also happen to think they're scummy.'

Apple.

My mum boycotts Barclays bank though. Apparently they supported Apartheid and all sorts of other horrible things.

 

[Grape_Bullion]

To some degree, I boycott EA, Ubisoft, Capcom and Activision. To every degree, Bioware, Treyarch and Infinity Ward.