[Closed] Brands you wouldn't touch with a barge pole...

Well despite Call-me-Daves claim to have 'detoxified the Tory brand', you could have a gun at my head and I still couldn't bring myself to put an X next to a Tory candidates name.

Oh... and I'd like to be left alone in a room with the person who devised this Halifax advertising campaign. With a blowtorch and a pair of pliers. I'd like to make him suffer, like he has made us suffer

Anything with Murdoch's mitts on it +1.

Volvo. Got run over by one.

On One

Trek

Specialized

BMW and AUDI, ugly cars for sad people with low self-esteem.

Manitou

+1 for The Conservative Party. I'd also like to add The Labour Party to the list too.

An ex-g/f of mine is in the new Halifax ads...

Superstar Components.

Shimano.

renault peugeot seat mazda vauxhal and huyndai SMEG BMW AUDI tories.

Apple products, if the battery isn't user replaceable then I don't want to know...

12 posts in and nobody's said 'Russel' yet, hoping for a chortle.

I'll do it then...

Russel

* chortles *

Jo Brand?

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Benetton - awful adverts.
Anything Murdoch.
Vauxhall.
Anything using meerkats in advertising.

Nike, McDonalds, Sky/Murdoch, Nestle, Daily Mail, Tories (who knows who I'm going to vote for in the next election though). Oh, and SRAM bottom brackets.

Brands I'm working to wean myself off:

Coca Cola
Burger King
The Metro "news" paper
Fifa (the football authority and the game)
Chris King
...and now, since I've just had my first two doughnuts from them, Krispy Kreme.

If the product is good and the price is right then I wouldn't refuse to buy from them because I supported a different football team or because the adverts are annoying - that's insane surely?!

in a continuation of Camo's post... Jo! 😳

EDIT: wwaswas you edited that in after my post, didn't you, you barsteward! ❗

Aldi
Lidl
Asda
Argos
Hope

Or any other company that classes as cheap and nasty.

Skoda (its the badge)

McDonalds, Starbucks, most banks, Sky, Nestle and Specialized, as LBS is a dealer who charged me £25 to remove a b/b. I'm sure there are others which will spring to mind

Fifa (the football authority and the game)

plus...

Nike
Apple - still got a macbook, but never use it any more. 2nd battery has now blown up. Could never ever ever bring myself to buy an iphone/ipad.

Next. How have they lasted for so long selling such expensive rags?

I'm not sure it counts as abrand but seeing as you've got Murdoch's empire on the list: ITV - With the eception of cycling coverage and the Fred West thing it makes me feel dirty every time I watch it.

UK PLC

On the very few occasions when I watch ITV or Five I feel dirty...

Anyone with really annoying adverts. Webuyanycardotcom(*) and Coldseal Windows spring to mind.

(* - so do I at that price, bastards)

Orange (phone co)
The Guardian newspaper, the daily mail newspaper
Wetherspoons pubs
Vauxhall cars
Hewlett packard
Maglite
Balti king
SRAM

Harvester
Halfords

Halfords

I hear that, mcboo!

Nothing but problems at mucho cost.

Orange and black is so 2009, too.

New Labour

or what ever they are pretending to be this week

BMW. My mate's bought one recently and I'm struggling not to look at him in a different light.

Aldi
Lidl
Asda
Argos
Hope

Or any other company that classes as cheap and nasty.

It must be awful when you do have to integrate with the lower class scum.

Superstar Components.

+1

I'm actually struggling to see what is nasty about Lidl or Aldi, cheap, yes. I think they have quite a good business model though. The more that people avoid beacuse they think it is cheap and nasty means less idiots to battle through at the checkout.
The only brand I've actively avoided is Pascual in Spain because their drivers ware complete twunts who happily participated in the 15km overtaking manouvre.

The Daily Mail

That is All.

Hope

Or any other company that classes as cheap and nasty.

Hope - cheap and nasty - must be nice to have your wallet!

Apple products, if the battery isn't user replaceable then I don't want to know...

So simple even a woman can do it. 😛

and the back came off my iphone 4 with the removal of 2 screws.

and went back on again, which is always a bonus.

Struggling with the references to BMW TBH... seems like an out of date mindset

For the most part BMW seem to have reverted to being understated, conservative and very good to drive cars.

Seems to me that BM have moved a long way to reposition the brand image from the previous stereotype. The CO2 and tax efficiency thing in particular...

Yes you do still see some very nobbish behaviour from BMW drivers, but relatively unusual compared to the large number on the road.

Audi - well, that's an entirely different matter...

How's about avoiding phone manufacturers who save costs by putting cheap and crappy batteries in that need replacing?

Ragley
Hayes
Sunseeker

Other than that I'm a capitalist pig 🙂

DrRS**** Hope

Could you expand a little on that statement

If convinced, I'll sell my stem, qtr, seat clamp, wheels?

And if I do can anyone recommend a brand that's more exclusive - I don't want to come across as cheap and nasty now 😳

sierra cycling.

What happened to Audi then? Is it a bit like Helly Hansen and North Face - a brand taken over by a new audience. Audi used to be quiet cool I thought (thinking 80's, 90's) with the quattro setting new standards in rally but the core market being design orientated but quiet conservative buyers not dissimiliar to Saab owners but wanting a car that actually worked.

I don't see much more knobish motorway behaviour from Audi drivers than any other, but maybe I'm not looking for it with preconceptions. I don't drive one btw.

only one I positively go out of my way to avoid is Murdoch

Binners that ad makes my teeth itch