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BT and all the utility companies. That'll do for now. 🙂
ti_pin_man - MemberSticking a name in the ring that might not be taken well but I'm going to say Pace. They started off well, some great frames and good early forks and then failed miserably with poor customer service and life threatening warrenty.
Just in case anyone thinks Joe is kidding
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Sky
Eon
Bt
Barclays
Lloyds
HSBC
Natwest
Santander
Halifax
Bunny s bikes
Any and all the Utility Company's(By common concensus)
Yodel(no explanation needed)
First Buses and Northern rail(Both a shower of sh!t)
Sky(too long to go into here)
BP ,Shell etc (never mind the tax on fuel by the government, price fixing galore by these shysters)
BT - I really hate that company! How come they still have a monopoly (those with a Virgin cable to their house excepted, obviously) on our phone lines in this modern age?
Tobacco companies.
Payday Lenders.
Accident management companies.
Talk Sport.
Yeah, I remember Joe's experience with pace... Not good....
Yell.com
BT
Sky
Myparceldelivery.com
parcel2go.com
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my god, avoid.
Bike Outlet York, Fast tech just my 2 additions.
Local council the bureaucrats ...
Tesco, in fact all the big supermarkets.
Royal Mail.
Dave Hinde.
Royal Mail.
I don't know, I've made £600 from them in the last 6 months, on a £750 investment!
Halifax
Sports Direct
Is that something to brag about footflaps?
My vote: wheelies, British gas, Ryanair, associated newspapers.
All unlikely, sadly.
Not a company, but BBC 5Live deserves to whither and die. The Danny Baker Show is the only thing of merit on that station.
Any payday loan company.. Charging people colossal amounts of interest! Can't believe that are allowed to advertise!
Cash converters
eBay
Sky
Vodafone
USC
Ryanair
Probably lots of others aswell.
Along with the private equity parasites who inevitably ended up owning them
Most (if not all) of those companies you name are not owned by private equity firms.
MBNA - for being a bunch of thieving scum
British Gas - for general all-round incompetence
Daily Mail - for being a thoroughly odious hateful publication
Bravissimo.
Thread title needs changing.
"Companies that deserve to go out of business because I hate them."
Bravissimo.
🙁
Thread title needs changing.
Nope. Just needs to be caressed back on course.
It's all well and good to say one would like to see Dr Orphan-Strangler's Payday Loan and Cigar Emporium go bust, but that's not the point. It's companies who you have personally dealt with, and wondered how the hell they continue to exist due to their incompetence.
For example, Amazon are ethically dubious, but their delivery, customer service and returns are spot on. So yes, they treat people in their warehouses like broken robots and have very questionable employment practices, but I can order some parcel tape at 6pm and have it the next day, and they refund returns once they get scanned at the Collect+ dropoff. Soooo I let that slide.
Bike Outlet York,
+1
Lloyds banking group.
a) You cannot deal with mortgage person in bank as you are existing customer, please phone us.
b) Two different departments for buy to let and residential, and I needed both at once.
c) Third department for remortgage.
d) Fourth department as original mortgage was through intermediary.
e) Fifth department as none of the above seemed to fit, after 2 hours on phone, none of their offers on the C&G website was available to me, and they suggested I go onto store.
f) see a)
g) I get a phone call asking why I am ending mortgage deal, and could they offer me something else, they will just put me through to a colleague in another department....
Manchester United 🙂
G4
Wonga and other legalised loan sharks.
Talktalk
has no one said Dave HInde yet`?
It's companies who you have personally dealt with, and wondered how the hell they continue to exist due to their incompetence.
Fair 'nuff. In that case, Plusnet. Great in the early days, now shocking CS.
I spent a few years hating Chiltern Railways. The expression 'this really isn't any way to run a railroad' could have been made for them. I remember once being abandoned around Pinner while - I can only assume - the driver popped out for some light shopping.
Ah yes, here's a representative example: http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?page_id=9
Alex you clearly haven't had much experience of other TOC lowlights. Chiltern are actually one of the best by quite a long way. For me, TfL every time with their horrible patronising nannying and alternate barking of pointless orders, their utter inability to run anything whatsoever and downright nastiness. 11 months to replace an escalator anyone? Loathsome, loathsome,loathsome. How many hours have they stolen from me in their horrendous random nastiness?
That's better, and breathe. And Ryanair. And TfL again for good measure (repeat above).
postierich - Member
Whoever Rob Hilton works for
I used to be postierob - came so close to "going postal" 
I loved delivering scrap paper that went straight in the bin.
Currently NHS, so, while it may not be the most efficient, not a total waste of time.
Do any of you train whiners ever claim back fares for late or delayed trains?
As a matter of principle, despite it being made very hard. Some get paid, some just get ignored. Six quid doesn't really cut it though for a whole evening stuck in some god-forsaken hole in north London.
have you ever tried to claim back? I gave up after being told the delays were within acceptable limits
Local one Qantas/Jetstar - massive losses problems with capital raising, cap in hand to government so redo all of the staff uniforms rather than sort out the old planes or the fact that in flight food is a crap cookie - I know we are getting tim tams soon but it's not enough. Add in you can't get luggage booked across from their budget version jetstar event though you booked it through qantas direct....
at least I try and get my monies worth from the lounge bar.
Sky for being a puppet of Rupert, if only it was the bear.
Specialized for their over reaching sense of self importance and trying to patent towns in france.
Singletrack for being about cross bikes 😉
Its good to see Air France mentioned, they truly stitched me up with a 2.6k economy flight to Hong Kong during the 2010 Volcano shenanigans, I mean, I only wanted to get my wedding so why not string me up by my b***s.
And for anyone who has to deal with PCCW here, there is a special place in consumer hell reserved for them, pay for 20MB, get 1.5 but since they have a monopoly on my apartment, go whistle!
I only wanted to get my wedding so why not string me up by my b***s.
It's inevitable, they just saved her the string
All online locksmiths.
Air France - there are many good things about France... somehow AF manage only to capture the bad
Lloyds/Halifax/BoS - truly the very worst of a shocking bunch. Dealing with them is like going back 30yrs.
>>Do any of you train whiners ever claim back fares for late or delayed trains?
Yes, ££hundreds a year, hence I don't winge too much about Greater Anglia!
And as we're basing this upon personal experience, the NHS. And On One.
i should have added them earlier (how the hell did i forget them).if any company is most deserving of going bankrupt it has to be ATOS.
On-One for their lies.
KLM (Air France) for their awful website and a host of other issues.
NHS for not listening to their patients or even their own specialists, and generally giving out sh*t advice.
BP for being a terrible company even by O&G company standards.
Oh I forgot how have these jokers not be mentioned:
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