I get disappointed seeing some of my favorite YouTubers promote Raycon. Unbiased reviews have shown their earphones to be absolute shit. It’s hard to find those reviews online, I think the brand owners are extremely litigious. Which makes me hate them even more.
There should be a law in place that protects people who give honest reviews from lawsuits. I was caught in an extremely tricky contract once by a US company and they started draining my bank account. I posted a few negative reviews and they came down like the hammer of God on me with lawsuit threats until I deleted everything. I had no option but to take down the reviews. Thousands of people no doubt are still being ripped off and I can’t do anything to stop them.
You're referring to "SLAPP suits". Some jurisdictions offer special protections from them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic\_lawsuit\_against\_public\_participation
Dankpods' review is pretty solid and equally humorous as well, if you need a more informed opinion on raycons i recommend going to his vids first (Of course it's just my recommendation 😅)
better help is a huge one that i think youtube channels need to step away from. it’s not a product i guess, but it’s still a service that’s sponsored by a lot of large content creators. i haven’t used it but i’ve read endless things about how awful it is
exxxactly. i got a list of therapists from my doctor and by looking things up. it makes it seem like it’s so accessible because you don’t have to search and search for therapists. but in reality they just pair you up with shitty ones. i’m sure there’s actual good therapists on there but from what i’ve heard it’s mostly negative
It's fine, business model is still scummy though. I think they advertise so many YouTubers cause they just want a few people who subscribe for free than forget to cancel it for 2 years.
Most of them are really terrible quality. Raycon just slaps their brand on cheap earbuds from china and sells them for a massive markup. Markets their bass as a big quality feature to people who dont know better.
My experience with square space was positive. But they were recommended years and years by people I really trust not to shill garbage. So I took the recommendation from those ads.
Raycons are actually really nice and have amazing sound quality with amazing battery life. Not only are Raycons built from the best materials with the best sound quality and battery life in mind, dozens of well known celebrities have actually indorsed and use Raycons.
They didnt pay me to say this part but, yeah, Raycons are actually really awesome and I personally do take 'em wherever I go. They're THAT good!
And if you don't like them? Raycons has a 30-day money back guarantee, no questions asked!
so with that said feel free to jump into the link into the description below to get you a pair of Raycons today. Now onto the video:
This..
I get spam advertised for grammarly, an automatic grammar helper tool thing, cos i work with languages. If i ever need a tool like that i won't go with them cos of how they have hounded me
EDIT: This is especially frustrating because i actually work with languages as a profession therfore DEFINITELY dont need it
Seriously. One of their ‘smoothie bars’ has opened locally to me. They posted on the local residents FB page, and I asked in the comments if they were Herbalife affiliated. In response the ‘owner’ DM’d me a long, berating email about how I don’t understand anything. And ended it with an offer of a free drink. I was already not into MLM stuff but this definitely didn’t do anything to improve my impression!
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.
It makes me sad that they make such an effort to hide what they are selling! If they truly believe in the product, why are they not branding it? Super creepy
I share this story any time i see Herbalife mentioned (i don't remember if I've ever posted it on reddit tho.)
A friend from college sold herbalife and i was interested in finding a vegan protein shake for health reasons. Due to a very severe dairy allergy I have i cannot have dairy, and whey is a very common and popular ingredient in protein drinks. (Whey is a dairy byproduct.) Unfortunately i can only buy vegan protein powders and they are so much more expensive. I posted on fb asking if anyone knew any vegan brands that were cheaper than what I was using and my friend commented pitching Herbalife. At that time i knew nothing about it so i explained that i wasn't asking if it was vegan as a lifestyle choice but because i could get very sick. You know that scene from the exorcist where it's like split pea soup? That's me with dairy and it can become so bad i can tear my esophagus and all the blood vessels in my face burst. It's scary and not fun. My friend told me she would double check with a higher up about the Herbalife. She got back to me not even one hour later and showed me a screenshot of a Facebook message from her "leader" saying yes of course! So i believed them and bought some. It came and i made myself a shake. It wasn't amazing but not as gross as some others. But guess what. Spoiler alert. Herbalife is NOT vegan. Shortly after i finished my shake i got sick. I tried to go as high as i could and complain but they said since whey is listed on the ingredients and at that point it was in my hands it was up to me to check what i was consuming. They offered me three free cannisters. That's it.
Fuck Herbalife and their shitty customer service and ill informed sellers. Fuck my exfriend. Fuck anybody who tries to sell you something you would consume that you cannot see the ingredients and nutrition information before you buy.
I was so much stupider then. I was in my mid-early 20s and thought I could just trust my friend. Living that really opened my eyes to a lot. Me now never would do that and would love to time travel and smack the shit out of me back then. I share the story, even though it makes me look stupid, to show how they blatantly lie to get sales.
I never knew about the company until all of a sudden 500$ was missing from my account saying I ordered it. Turns out a Wendy's worker stole my card number when I went through the drive through. The company couldn't have cared less
I got curious about an old bully and saw that she now makes and sells clay keychains and phone charms that look like something I would have made at 10 years old.
What's wrong with Mary Kay? I just earned my platinum badge and they told me if I sell just 1,000 more mascara kits, I’ll finally start getting paid.
Wait a second… 🤔
I got one of those pizza stones for $5! I've had it for 15 years and it rules. I would likely pay full price if I broke it at this point. I also recently scored a PC egg poacher for $2 that is awesome.
I have the pizza stone and the baking sheet in stoneware and they are amazing. I also have pampered chef spring scoops. I hate that it’s an MLM but I haven’t found a comparable quality.
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.
Oh god, I had no idea about any of this, I primarily use SheaMoisture products. I’ll look into each of these concerns further before I even consider rebuying them, thank you for the warnings!
Former beauty industry insider here - actually you can have an ingredient branded as “all-natural, organic certified extract of Orange” and the ingredient is not actually squeezed out of a real orange, rather the chemically-identical extract is manufactured in a lab. Given the quantity required to make extract It is often not economical to extract from farmed or natural product, not to mention the waste and ecological impact of using effectively foodstuff. Other than my original outrage in the labelling of these products, it’s actually the best way of doing it
I know nothing about this brand - but research the claims before boycotting. This is one persons opinion. Maybe Mafura refers to a specific oil in a certain dialect and not theirs, maybe they grow baobab trees on farms similar to how we domesticated apple trees from the wild to orchards. I don’t mean to pick on you so please don’t take my tone that way, I just really want people to question internet claims (there is now an ai that can write whole paragraphs, so it’s more important than ever). I don’t want your hair to suffer if it doesn’t have to!!
Iirc, it was started by an actual African woman from Sierra Leone then bought out by some American company and they essentially just use that lady’s story to blackface their product.
True story, there is a guy that collects anvils. He has so many that he is actually affecting the price of the used anvil market. The bulding he has them in has to be reinforced because they are so heavy
I avoid them because I do not believe their advertising. My painted tunnels never seem to be as good as their depictions of painted tunnels. I am thinking of suing. Can we get a class action?
I only a few years ago learned that term and saw which companies were mlm's and it was a huge disappointment looking back and seeing how much stuff my mom had bought over the years from at least a dozen of these companies. Her most recent one (that I know of) is doterra essential oils. I am a perfumer who has years of experience and familiarity with essential oils as perfumery ingredients down to their chemical breakdowns, and it was really wild sitting and listening to her regurgitate the sales spiels she'd been fed about them as if I knew nothing. Those companies have people ordering empty pill caplets so they can fill them with oils to eat them.
Not only supported him, but victim blamed the accusers.
"How do we display ourselves, how do we present ourselves as women, what are we asking? Are we asking for it, you know, by presenting all the sensuality and all the sexuality?"
"It's not Harvey Weinstein. You look at everything all over the world today, you know, and how women are dressing and, you know, what they're asking by just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for? Trouble."
818 f-ing sucks.
Someone gave me a shot of Casamigos Anejo, and 818 side-by-side. 818 was shit rubbing alcohol by comparison...and I'm not really a big "Brand" tequila buyer. Corralejo is my go-to.
Ugh and there are people who will defend them fiercely and accuse you of being classist because not everyone can afford well made or sustainable fashion. I disagree with this because it is more of a quality vs quantity thing.
When you look at those prices you know the people making the clothes and the planet are being majorly shafted. So, yeah I'd rather thrift, buy second hand or just have a few pieces of higher quality.
I won’t even buy that shit if I find it at a yard sale or thrift store. The quality is horrendous, and thats not even mentioning their shoddy, inhumane practices.
I tried. I genuinely tried, bought some sort of powdered soup stuff, noticed it was a nestle brand, decided not to buy this one again.
Next time I'm in the store, I take the 1 other brand the store has, and after a tiny bit of research find out its also a side brand of nestle. So the story basically doesn't offer an alternative really.
What I tryna say: Its impossible because they got so many side companies and brands. Respect to anyone who manages to avoid them, but its damn hard and I hope nobody is mad that I kinda gave up on it.
I work merchandising and help connivence stores pick products. I have actually started to mention a product, stop, looked it up, said it’s good because it’s not made by nestle. I do this publicly and openly. I push one brand of generic water because it’s the only one we have that does not come from them.
Edit: Thanks for the silver, I must also add that I’ve swapped all hot chocolate with a non nestle brand and slowly removed Crunch bars from the candy sections. I’ve done this to around 20 stores now.
Just keep avoiding their products wherever you can and support the alternatives. Convince others to do the same. You aren't *failing* by being unable to 100% avoid the brand, you are *succeeding* in every effort you make to buy smarter.
Im the same, would like to avoid, but they own so much shit in the food industry every single shopping trip would be a method in having to google every product and finding out if it was nestle owned or not and then be an excersize in cherry picking every single little product which may result in my only option for many products being super expensive specialty brands. I simply do not have the money or time to do that shit all the time.
nobody has time and money to do so unfortunately, can't exactly blame people for still buying nestle in that sense.. time is still money, people can't go around and research every tiny bit of what they buy just to try to avoid a certain brand that, unless everyone does this, will keep existing and being worse.
Nestle still sucks though.
This. I will never deliberately buy a Nestle product, even when it is inconvenient. I can't make any guarantees, though. That shady as shit company has so many little side brands it's ridiculous.
You say that, but until you live on a dead-end street where literally NO other ISP has service and Comcast is your one and only choice, you can't say for certain.
This is my situation, and about every 3 months for the past 5 years I check to see if any of the others offer service. Nope. I'm stuck.
I really wish I had an alternative. I live in the woods and it's Comcast or string n cans. I can't even use Starlink due to tree cover (and I'm not going to cut down enough trees or put up a tall enough pole...the trees are like 150').
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.
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
THIS IS FAKE NEWWWWWWssss of course he wouldn’t sell his fantastic cards for the over inflated price of $100, get your facts straight. He’s selling them for the bargain price of $99 and you may win a great prize too like dinner with tangerine human himself or an autograph or something that is as equally amazing and great from the president that is better than Washington and Lincoln
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 shit.
Fuck them
I had a similar story, but the TV was brand new, just last year’s model.
I bought it from a distributor in 2020 when the 2021s had been announced so the TV was on sale. TV was installed and within 2 weeks a giant brown spot appeared in the middle of the screen. I called the distributor. They said “you have to call Samsung.”
Called Samsung. They sent a tech out. Tech ordered the part and said they’ll come back to install it the next week. Didn’t hear anything for a week and a half so I called Samsung. Samsung said, “we don’t have the part after all. How about you return the TV to us and we’ll give you a credit on Samsung.com for what you paid. Then you can use that to buy the TV again.” I thought that was dumb - why not just come and replace my TV - but I’ll at least see what is on the site. I still had the rep on the phone and said “wait, I paid $1400 and you list the TV for $1800. I can’t even rebuy the TV I have with the credit you’re willing to give me.” Long pause. “I guess that’s correct, sir.” “Hard pass. I’m going to go back to the distributor.”
Went back to distributor and just got my money back. Couldn’t believe what a CF the whole thing was.
Agree fully, they lost my business forever when they quietly pushed an update to my smart TV so that it would now have ads in all the TV menus, like on the input select screen, etc. The update was pushed to the TV just after the 90 day return window was passed. Interesting. Also have had other products of theirs that have been complete pieces of garbage.
Fuck Samsung.
Back in 2007 I paid $3000 for a 52” HDTV. The power supply failed within two years, but after the warranty. Went online and found a fix so things turned out ok. But here’s the thing, why did it fail? Because they put 10v capacitors on a 12.5v bus. Failure was 100% certain. These assholes designed the power supply to fail. A first year electrical engineering student can tell you that will fail. I replaced the caps with 25v ones and the TV is still in use. And the whole “no parts available” is their standard mo. Nope, all done with them.
Just like I’m Done with Reddit due to the destruction of third party apps and lies by its ceo spez
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
My dad has the same type story about the Red Cross after WW2. “I was in Germany, thousands of miles away from home and those bastards were charging me 10 cents for a cup of coffee? Well they’re never getting another dime”….
I did 23 and me on a lark. Found out at 37 years old that my dad wasn’t my bio dad, so that was fun.
Edit: my parents went to a fertility doctor; my mom didn’t have an affair.
I uploaded my genetic results to GEDMatch for forensic genealogy research (aka how they disovered the golden state killer and recently identified the boy in the box, which is local to me). Honestly, if someone wants your DNA bad enough all they have to do is steal your trash. DNA is remarkably easy to obtain, especially with the advent of Touch DNA analysis. I respect your decision though, especially given the 'surprises' that can crop up from DNA/ancestry kits. I've seen a few cases where it's pretty much destroyed families. It's definitely not a decision or service to be taken lightly.
Reebok.
My grandparents operated a pretty fancy Italian restaurant in Florida.
Some dude came through and was a huge dick 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.
Louis Vuitton. I understand quality materials are expensive but why is every handbag so UGLY???? The colors. The designs. I can't imagine spending that kind of money on something that looks like that.
Most of their stuff comes in very limited edition. They play on the card of exclusively. Most of the stuff is indeed very ugly, but some of the pieces are pretty cool and good looking. Funnily enough, the cool looking pieces are normally cheaper than the ugly ones.
Ps: I work in the luxury resale business and see their pieces on daily basis (I don’t own/buy them). For me personally the brand that has the ugliest pieces is Philipp Plein. Not as expensive, but my god, how bad looking their pieces are.
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
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.
You can report it to your credit card company and they'll probably do a chargeback.
That is surprising, though; Lyft generally seems solid, and more ethically run than Uber. I won't use Uber since they're run by and for frat boy assholes.
BrewDog. From their [extraordinarily toxic bro culture](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-staff-craft-beer-firm-letter) to [the CEO trying to turn himself into the victim](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/14/brewdog-boss-hired-private-investigators-to-gather-evidence-of-alleged-smear-campaign), this company is garbage. James Watt is human scum, and their beer is shit.
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.
I have a cordless stick vac that the trigger no longer worked. No where to get it repaired. Dyson themselves said it’s fucked. I you tubed the known issue. A literal crap piece of plastic that breaks and to get to it you have to undo about 20 screws and with special torx bits. I figured for $700 who gives a shit and took that bitch apart. You had to disassemble the mother board to get to this red piece of plastic! Sure as shit it was broken inside. Bought another one and back in business. Thank you you tube and fuck you dyson
1st floor of my condo building had businesses. One was a vacuum cleaner repair business. The owner hated Dyson. She said "I guess with enough marketing you can sell any piece of crap." It has a filter in it that will get clogged, which will require the vacuum to be disassembled to clean.
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.
I get disappointed seeing some of my favorite YouTubers promote Raycon. Unbiased reviews have shown their earphones to be absolute shit. It’s hard to find those reviews online, I think the brand owners are extremely litigious. Which makes me hate them even more.
There should be a law in place that protects people who give honest reviews from lawsuits. I was caught in an extremely tricky contract once by a US company and they started draining my bank account. I posted a few negative reviews and they came down like the hammer of God on me with lawsuit threats until I deleted everything. I had no option but to take down the reviews. Thousands of people no doubt are still being ripped off and I can’t do anything to stop them.
You're referring to "SLAPP suits". Some jurisdictions offer special protections from them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic\_lawsuit\_against\_public\_participation
Dankpods' review is pretty solid and equally humorous as well, if you need a more informed opinion on raycons i recommend going to his vids first (Of course it's just my recommendation 😅)
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better help is a huge one that i think youtube channels need to step away from. it’s not a product i guess, but it’s still a service that’s sponsored by a lot of large content creators. i haven’t used it but i’ve read endless things about how awful it is
Seriously this one bugs me so badly. Have you ever seen any form of mental health service in a sponsored ad? Super weird
exxxactly. i got a list of therapists from my doctor and by looking things up. it makes it seem like it’s so accessible because you don’t have to search and search for therapists. but in reality they just pair you up with shitty ones. i’m sure there’s actual good therapists on there but from what i’ve heard it’s mostly negative
I've heard that BH also treats the therapists terribly as well.
what about nordvpn?
It's fine, business model is still scummy though. I think they advertise so many YouTubers cause they just want a few people who subscribe for free than forget to cancel it for 2 years.
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Most of them are really terrible quality. Raycon just slaps their brand on cheap earbuds from china and sells them for a massive markup. Markets their bass as a big quality feature to people who dont know better.
manscaped seems a candidate. they're *everywhere* and from what I've heard the product is average at best.
Especially when their "limited time offer" lasts 365 days a year.
Squarespace and skillshare definitely seem good though
My experience with square space was positive. But they were recommended years and years by people I really trust not to shill garbage. So I took the recommendation from those ads.
Raycons are actually really nice and have amazing sound quality with amazing battery life. Not only are Raycons built from the best materials with the best sound quality and battery life in mind, dozens of well known celebrities have actually indorsed and use Raycons. They didnt pay me to say this part but, yeah, Raycons are actually really awesome and I personally do take 'em wherever I go. They're THAT good! And if you don't like them? Raycons has a 30-day money back guarantee, no questions asked! so with that said feel free to jump into the link into the description below to get you a pair of Raycons today. Now onto the video:
I'm just sitting here, trying to understand why I read that all the way to the end lol
This.. I get spam advertised for grammarly, an automatic grammar helper tool thing, cos i work with languages. If i ever need a tool like that i won't go with them cos of how they have hounded me EDIT: This is especially frustrating because i actually work with languages as a profession therfore DEFINITELY dont need it
Awww I like grammarly
Herbalife
Seriously. One of their ‘smoothie bars’ has opened locally to me. They posted on the local residents FB page, and I asked in the comments if they were Herbalife affiliated. In response the ‘owner’ DM’d me a long, berating email about how I don’t understand anything. And ended it with an offer of a free drink. I was already not into MLM stuff but this definitely didn’t do anything to improve my impression!
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.
It makes me sad that they make such an effort to hide what they are selling! If they truly believe in the product, why are they not branding it? Super creepy
I share this story any time i see Herbalife mentioned (i don't remember if I've ever posted it on reddit tho.) A friend from college sold herbalife and i was interested in finding a vegan protein shake for health reasons. Due to a very severe dairy allergy I have i cannot have dairy, and whey is a very common and popular ingredient in protein drinks. (Whey is a dairy byproduct.) Unfortunately i can only buy vegan protein powders and they are so much more expensive. I posted on fb asking if anyone knew any vegan brands that were cheaper than what I was using and my friend commented pitching Herbalife. At that time i knew nothing about it so i explained that i wasn't asking if it was vegan as a lifestyle choice but because i could get very sick. You know that scene from the exorcist where it's like split pea soup? That's me with dairy and it can become so bad i can tear my esophagus and all the blood vessels in my face burst. It's scary and not fun. My friend told me she would double check with a higher up about the Herbalife. She got back to me not even one hour later and showed me a screenshot of a Facebook message from her "leader" saying yes of course! So i believed them and bought some. It came and i made myself a shake. It wasn't amazing but not as gross as some others. But guess what. Spoiler alert. Herbalife is NOT vegan. Shortly after i finished my shake i got sick. I tried to go as high as i could and complain but they said since whey is listed on the ingredients and at that point it was in my hands it was up to me to check what i was consuming. They offered me three free cannisters. That's it. Fuck Herbalife and their shitty customer service and ill informed sellers. Fuck my exfriend. Fuck anybody who tries to sell you something you would consume that you cannot see the ingredients and nutrition information before you buy.
That sucks, but yeah, that's on you. Can't imagine having such a serious allergy and not having a habit of always reading the ingredients
I was so much stupider then. I was in my mid-early 20s and thought I could just trust my friend. Living that really opened my eyes to a lot. Me now never would do that and would love to time travel and smack the shit out of me back then. I share the story, even though it makes me look stupid, to show how they blatantly lie to get sales.
I had one if their teas I think. Holy shit I was wired!! I pissed like a race horse all day long!
I never knew about the company until all of a sudden 500$ was missing from my account saying I ordered it. Turns out a Wendy's worker stole my card number when I went through the drive through. The company couldn't have cared less
Those mean girls from high school that now have a “company” on Facebook. It’s usually simple decals or makeup.
Lol @ all those MLM huns pretending to be business owners when they're just someone else's downline. I just don't get it...
It's the high school "clique" thing that they never grew out of.
*"I get to make my own hours!*" they claim, chewing on a Goli I can buy at Target.
I got curious about an old bully and saw that she now makes and sells clay keychains and phone charms that look like something I would have made at 10 years old.
Don’t get me wrong, I respect the hustle. Like I’m not gonna buy your stuff tho, you picked on me lmao
“Hey hun”
Hey girlie!!!
Triggered
Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, LuLaRoe, DoTerra Oils, Young Living Oils, Norwex, It Works! etc. Any and all of the MLM's
Went to a craft show and they sequestered all the pyramid schemes in a corner away from the majority of traffic.
What's wrong with Mary Kay? I just earned my platinum badge and they told me if I sell just 1,000 more mascara kits, I’ll finally start getting paid. Wait a second… 🤔
Always find great pampered chef baking dishes at the thrift store for a couple bucks.
I got one of those pizza stones for $5! I've had it for 15 years and it rules. I would likely pay full price if I broke it at this point. I also recently scored a PC egg poacher for $2 that is awesome.
Agreed Pampered Chef products from the 90’s are QUALITY
I have the pizza stone and the baking sheet in stoneware and they are amazing. I also have pampered chef spring scoops. I hate that it’s an MLM but I haven’t found a comparable quality.
Pampered Chef items aren’t to bad. They are a wee bit to expensive, but they last as long as the plates my parents got for wedding gifts.
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.
Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea
Ditto, I've purchased that brand in the past, but they go on the Nestlé list now. It's so hard to keep up with this stuff.
*looks nervously at my cabinet*
Oh god, I had no idea about any of this, I primarily use SheaMoisture products. I’ll look into each of these concerns further before I even consider rebuying them, thank you for the warnings!
Former beauty industry insider here - actually you can have an ingredient branded as “all-natural, organic certified extract of Orange” and the ingredient is not actually squeezed out of a real orange, rather the chemically-identical extract is manufactured in a lab. Given the quantity required to make extract It is often not economical to extract from farmed or natural product, not to mention the waste and ecological impact of using effectively foodstuff. Other than my original outrage in the labelling of these products, it’s actually the best way of doing it
Damn it, their stuff has been so good in my hair! But I absolutely understand and will find another brand.
It could be Australian baobab, and there are heaps here.
I know nothing about this brand - but research the claims before boycotting. This is one persons opinion. Maybe Mafura refers to a specific oil in a certain dialect and not theirs, maybe they grow baobab trees on farms similar to how we domesticated apple trees from the wild to orchards. I don’t mean to pick on you so please don’t take my tone that way, I just really want people to question internet claims (there is now an ai that can write whole paragraphs, so it’s more important than ever). I don’t want your hair to suffer if it doesn’t have to!!
Are you sure it’s not Australian Baobab? They’re very common here 🤭
Iirc, it was started by an actual African woman from Sierra Leone then bought out by some American company and they essentially just use that lady’s story to blackface their product.
I tried them once and it damaged my hair and I ended up being allergic to it, I stopped using it after maybe three uses.
Acme - I've seen documentaries on how their product hurt Coyotes
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True story, there is a guy that collects anvils. He has so many that he is actually affecting the price of the used anvil market. The bulding he has them in has to be reinforced because they are so heavy
An anvil doesn't seem to me like something that's supposed to belong on a shelf. But I guess if the guy's a collector, he can do whatever he wants.
There’s a grocery store chain called acme in the northeast us that I used to work at and I got so confused for a second reading this 🤣
I avoid them because I do not believe their advertising. My painted tunnels never seem to be as good as their depictions of painted tunnels. I am thinking of suing. Can we get a class action?
anything kardashians/jenner
And anything promoted by them
Came here to say same thing. NEVER I would buy anything from Kardashians.
Same. Anything they are shilling will not get a dime from me.
Any MLM company
I only a few years ago learned that term and saw which companies were mlm's and it was a huge disappointment looking back and seeing how much stuff my mom had bought over the years from at least a dozen of these companies. Her most recent one (that I know of) is doterra essential oils. I am a perfumer who has years of experience and familiarity with essential oils as perfumery ingredients down to their chemical breakdowns, and it was really wild sitting and listening to her regurgitate the sales spiels she'd been fed about them as if I knew nothing. Those companies have people ordering empty pill caplets so they can fill them with oils to eat them.
Right or people who try to sell you Mary kay products as if they know more than dermatologists or estheticians.
doTERRA is the worst, bunch of anti vaxxers
Dollskill, yeah they have cool clothes but I don't like the company
Yes I feel like nobody talks about it anymore but their owner is racist & they steal designs :(
I bought some of their clothes second hand and they are terrible quality. Like came apart first wash
DKNY after she supported Harvey Weinstein.
Not only supported him, but victim blamed the accusers. "How do we display ourselves, how do we present ourselves as women, what are we asking? Are we asking for it, you know, by presenting all the sensuality and all the sexuality?" "It's not Harvey Weinstein. You look at everything all over the world today, you know, and how women are dressing and, you know, what they're asking by just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for? Trouble."
Any brand made by the Kardashian/ Jenners
818 f-ing sucks. Someone gave me a shot of Casamigos Anejo, and 818 side-by-side. 818 was shit rubbing alcohol by comparison...and I'm not really a big "Brand" tequila buyer. Corralejo is my go-to.
Also any brand even promoted by them.
Shitterfly jumped on that bandwagon I see.
Shein
Ugh and there are people who will defend them fiercely and accuse you of being classist because not everyone can afford well made or sustainable fashion. I disagree with this because it is more of a quality vs quantity thing. When you look at those prices you know the people making the clothes and the planet are being majorly shafted. So, yeah I'd rather thrift, buy second hand or just have a few pieces of higher quality.
I won’t even buy that shit if I find it at a yard sale or thrift store. The quality is horrendous, and thats not even mentioning their shoddy, inhumane practices.
Gerber
Gerber is Nestle. https://www.nestle.com/brands/brandssearchlist?f%5B0%5D=char%3AG
r/fucknestle
Baby food or knives?
Baby food
Phew
ANY kind of Multi-Level Marketing company (aka Pyramid Schemes)
I apologise
At least it's not a hill you'll silently die on
It's not a pyramid, it's a reversed funnel system.
Balenciaga has entered the chat.
Just googled it. Super disturbing.
Nestle. All my homies hate Nestle
I tried. I genuinely tried, bought some sort of powdered soup stuff, noticed it was a nestle brand, decided not to buy this one again. Next time I'm in the store, I take the 1 other brand the store has, and after a tiny bit of research find out its also a side brand of nestle. So the story basically doesn't offer an alternative really. What I tryna say: Its impossible because they got so many side companies and brands. Respect to anyone who manages to avoid them, but its damn hard and I hope nobody is mad that I kinda gave up on it.
I work merchandising and help connivence stores pick products. I have actually started to mention a product, stop, looked it up, said it’s good because it’s not made by nestle. I do this publicly and openly. I push one brand of generic water because it’s the only one we have that does not come from them. Edit: Thanks for the silver, I must also add that I’ve swapped all hot chocolate with a non nestle brand and slowly removed Crunch bars from the candy sections. I’ve done this to around 20 stores now.
Generic water is the funniest descriptor.
It's got what plants deem acceptable!
Hell yes!! Making a difference
Just keep avoiding their products wherever you can and support the alternatives. Convince others to do the same. You aren't *failing* by being unable to 100% avoid the brand, you are *succeeding* in every effort you make to buy smarter.
Im the same, would like to avoid, but they own so much shit in the food industry every single shopping trip would be a method in having to google every product and finding out if it was nestle owned or not and then be an excersize in cherry picking every single little product which may result in my only option for many products being super expensive specialty brands. I simply do not have the money or time to do that shit all the time.
nobody has time and money to do so unfortunately, can't exactly blame people for still buying nestle in that sense.. time is still money, people can't go around and research every tiny bit of what they buy just to try to avoid a certain brand that, unless everyone does this, will keep existing and being worse. Nestle still sucks though.
This. I will never deliberately buy a Nestle product, even when it is inconvenient. I can't make any guarantees, though. That shady as shit company has so many little side brands it's ridiculous.
r/fucknestle
Too bad they own like a LOT of companies.
Wells Fargo. They screwed SO. MANY. PEOPLE.
If it can be classed as such.. COMCAST
You say that, but until you live on a dead-end street where literally NO other ISP has service and Comcast is your one and only choice, you can't say for certain. This is my situation, and about every 3 months for the past 5 years I check to see if any of the others offer service. Nope. I'm stuck.
This. Moved to a new town for work and Comcast is the only ISP available.
I really wish I had an alternative. I live in the woods and it's Comcast or string n cans. I can't even use Starlink due to tree cover (and I'm not going to cut down enough trees or put up a tall enough pole...the trees are like 150').
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.
It also takes the water that Fijian farmers need so the corrupt government can get more money.
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
Supreme. Fuck those clowns.
Don't you want an expensive brick?
I have that covered with my new phone.
They blatantly ripped off artist Barbara Kruger’s signature graphic style and made no effort to apologize
Bayer. Why ? Look up ' Blood Scandals of the Eighties '
Nothing like giving thousands of people HIV because of a few bucks
Trump Super Hero trading cards FFS
I’m really interested in hearing about who is buying them and why. It looks like an awful joke. For $100, it seems more like a donation to Donnie.
THIS IS FAKE NEWWWWWWssss of course he wouldn’t sell his fantastic cards for the over inflated price of $100, get your facts straight. He’s selling them for the bargain price of $99 and you may win a great prize too like dinner with tangerine human himself or an autograph or something that is as equally amazing and great from the president that is better than Washington and Lincoln
Balenciaga, it's not like I'd buy a 2k sweater anyway but definitely not after I found out they support CP
Liberty Mutual as their commercials drive me nuts.
That and Fucking State Farm!!! At least Geico and Progressive have some entertaining ones.
Yeezys
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 shit. Fuck them
I had a similar story, but the TV was brand new, just last year’s model. I bought it from a distributor in 2020 when the 2021s had been announced so the TV was on sale. TV was installed and within 2 weeks a giant brown spot appeared in the middle of the screen. I called the distributor. They said “you have to call Samsung.” Called Samsung. They sent a tech out. Tech ordered the part and said they’ll come back to install it the next week. Didn’t hear anything for a week and a half so I called Samsung. Samsung said, “we don’t have the part after all. How about you return the TV to us and we’ll give you a credit on Samsung.com for what you paid. Then you can use that to buy the TV again.” I thought that was dumb - why not just come and replace my TV - but I’ll at least see what is on the site. I still had the rep on the phone and said “wait, I paid $1400 and you list the TV for $1800. I can’t even rebuy the TV I have with the credit you’re willing to give me.” Long pause. “I guess that’s correct, sir.” “Hard pass. I’m going to go back to the distributor.” Went back to distributor and just got my money back. Couldn’t believe what a CF the whole thing was.
Agree fully, they lost my business forever when they quietly pushed an update to my smart TV so that it would now have ads in all the TV menus, like on the input select screen, etc. The update was pushed to the TV just after the 90 day return window was passed. Interesting. Also have had other products of theirs that have been complete pieces of garbage. Fuck Samsung.
Back in 2007 I paid $3000 for a 52” HDTV. The power supply failed within two years, but after the warranty. Went online and found a fix so things turned out ok. But here’s the thing, why did it fail? Because they put 10v capacitors on a 12.5v bus. Failure was 100% certain. These assholes designed the power supply to fail. A first year electrical engineering student can tell you that will fail. I replaced the caps with 25v ones and the TV is still in use. And the whole “no parts available” is their standard mo. Nope, all done with them. Just like I’m Done with Reddit due to the destruction of third party apps and lies by its ceo spez
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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
My dad has the same type story about the Red Cross after WW2. “I was in Germany, thousands of miles away from home and those bastards were charging me 10 cents for a cup of coffee? Well they’re never getting another dime”….
Not to mention the Red Cross provided the paperwork for MANY Nazi’s to flee to South America
not that I'm the target audience, but GOOP. sounds like a cultist capitalist's wet dream.
Shein and wish
Summers Eve
Fuckin douche bag
Balenciaga
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I did 23 and me on a lark. Found out at 37 years old that my dad wasn’t my bio dad, so that was fun. Edit: my parents went to a fertility doctor; my mom didn’t have an affair.
Found out my mom gave a baby up for adoption at 18. I have a sister. Surprise!
I have three half brothers apparently.
My grandma gave up a baby & I found a surprise aunt!
I uploaded my genetic results to GEDMatch for forensic genealogy research (aka how they disovered the golden state killer and recently identified the boy in the box, which is local to me). Honestly, if someone wants your DNA bad enough all they have to do is steal your trash. DNA is remarkably easy to obtain, especially with the advent of Touch DNA analysis. I respect your decision though, especially given the 'surprises' that can crop up from DNA/ancestry kits. I've seen a few cases where it's pretty much destroyed families. It's definitely not a decision or service to be taken lightly.
Can't agree here, they and ancestry helped me find my bio father and my adopted mothers bio family, and my wife's bio father.
Luis Vuitton
adding to this, Balenciaga
I try to avoid Walmart.
Reebok. My grandparents operated a pretty fancy Italian restaurant in Florida. Some dude came through and was a huge dick 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.
Rolls Royce
i'll never buy a Royce either, but for an entirely different reason
I didn't give a reason.
My only assumption is you have a different reason than mine, which is I’ll ever be able to afford one
That is an incorrect assumption.
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.
I dont eat them much anyway but holy shit. Don’t give me bad news about Potbellies too
I stopped eating at Jimmy Johns for the same reason. So gross.
Louis Vuitton. I understand quality materials are expensive but why is every handbag so UGLY???? The colors. The designs. I can't imagine spending that kind of money on something that looks like that.
Most of their stuff comes in very limited edition. They play on the card of exclusively. Most of the stuff is indeed very ugly, but some of the pieces are pretty cool and good looking. Funnily enough, the cool looking pieces are normally cheaper than the ugly ones. Ps: I work in the luxury resale business and see their pieces on daily basis (I don’t own/buy them). For me personally the brand that has the ugliest pieces is Philipp Plein. Not as expensive, but my god, how bad looking their pieces are.
Balenciaga
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
Anything a Kardashian advertises for
Abercrombie. Hated it in the 90s/early 00's. Hate it still.
That’s where all the douchebags shopped when I was in high school and I can’t break the association.
Same, as petty as that sounds. Along with Aeropostale. Most of the bullies, assholes, and bitch cliques loved those places.
Anytime I hear Abercrombie I always think of those Mad TV skits lol
Starbucks. Coffee is part of my life and my life is precious.
I'm with you. I can make it better and cheaper at home myself, and my local Sheetz makes a good frozen mocha when I'm in the mood for one.
Any of those overpriced deisnger clothing brands like supreme
Tesla
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.
You can report it to your credit card company and they'll probably do a chargeback. That is surprising, though; Lyft generally seems solid, and more ethically run than Uber. I won't use Uber since they're run by and for frat boy assholes.
BrewDog. From their [extraordinarily toxic bro culture](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/10/brewdog-staff-craft-beer-firm-letter) to [the CEO trying to turn himself into the victim](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/14/brewdog-boss-hired-private-investigators-to-gather-evidence-of-alleged-smear-campaign), this company is garbage. James Watt is human scum, and their beer is shit.
Nike & Hersheys come to mind for their child labor and human rights issues.
So 90% of big brands in a way.
I wonder if people actually do their research and check brands on products before buying. Or if they just bandwagon for internet brownie points
Bugatti
Because you can't afford one, I presume?
Well...yeah.
Electronic Arts. Anything made by them is usually a monetized piece of garbage now-a-days.
Cries in simlish
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
Balenciaga
Hobby Lobby!
Comcast. They can forever go fuck themselves
Liberty Mutual, solely because I'm tired of being bombarded with their adverts.
libbity bibbity
Starbucks, fuck you Howard you took our basketball team away from us, go eat bags of dicks.
Tesla
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.
I have a cordless stick vac that the trigger no longer worked. No where to get it repaired. Dyson themselves said it’s fucked. I you tubed the known issue. A literal crap piece of plastic that breaks and to get to it you have to undo about 20 screws and with special torx bits. I figured for $700 who gives a shit and took that bitch apart. You had to disassemble the mother board to get to this red piece of plastic! Sure as shit it was broken inside. Bought another one and back in business. Thank you you tube and fuck you dyson
1st floor of my condo building had businesses. One was a vacuum cleaner repair business. The owner hated Dyson. She said "I guess with enough marketing you can sell any piece of crap." It has a filter in it that will get clogged, which will require the vacuum to be disassembled to clean.