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| The "New" AT&T | | | The "New" AT&T has got to be the worst of the worst. My mother ordered a bundle of landline, cell, DSL and DirecTV for her move to her retirement home. NOT ONE single component was handled right the first time, and repeated calls to AT&T have yielded very little results. Nobody at AT&T will take ownership of a probme and this is what is destroying America. Large corporations of people hidden behind voice mail system trees and call centers. Nobody gets in trouble for lousy service and nobody cares. AT&T has gone well beyond what any of the other companies in my black list have in order to piss me off. I will do everything I can to keep them from getting as little of my money as possible. Sadly, they get monster tax breaks from the USA and probably the State of Ohio, so I'm already subsidizing these creeps. | | | | |
| Register.Com | | | Register.com's tech support is horrorshow uncooperative when
it came to me trying to get my name back onto my domain after
they themselves screwed it up. I don't recommend them. | | | | |
| State Farm | | | I got hit by a client of State Farm insurance once, and State
Farm tried to take me to the cleaners. From what I have
experienced and heard from other people, State Farm is not a
good neighbor at all. From now on, if I ever get hit by a
State Farm client, I will go straight to a
lawyer and sue. Like a bad neighbor, State Farm is there. | | | | |
| Metropolitan (i.e. Met-Life) | | | Back in '92, I was rejected for insurance for a completely stupid reason. Depression.
If you have depression, you know all too well that very few insurance companies
and medical persons take depression seriously. Tipper Gore helped raise awareness
about depression, and I salute her for this, despite her pro-censorship leanings.
Shame on Charles Schultz (Late author of 'Peanuts')
for having endorsed these freaks. Mental note: More and more doctors are taking mental health
issues seriously these days. Don't get Met; it doesn't pay. | | | | |
| UnitedHealthcare | | | UnitedHealthcare has a policy that allows your employer to cancel your policy
retroactively, that is, before whatever today's date is. My ex-employer-scumbag
did just this to me, and tried to do just this to another person that used to work
there. A claim I made just before quitting wound up getting paid, then I got billed
for it because the ex-employer-scumbag had been able to cancel as of a few weeks
before I quit. This sort of policy is anti-employee and is reprehensible. No more
UnitedHealthcare, no matter where I work, period. Everyone should unite against these losers. | | | | |
| Discover Card | | | Most credit card companies will cut you some slack by letting a
late fee go if you call them the first time it happens. Not Discover.
I called 1-800-DISCOVER and talked to a very rude lady there. It was
my first late fee, which was an outrageous $30.00. I asked that since
it was my first time, could they cut me some slack. She didn't want to.
I told her to cancel the card and close out the account. She said Ok and didn't
seem to care that they were losing a customer. Good riddance to these losers. I discovered that I didn't need Discover. | | | | |
| Jillian's | | | Jillian's must have too many customers already, so they don't seem to mind
pissing a few of them off. I went there with a bunch of friends after
a wedding. I had on a "Hard Rock Cafe" Tee shirt. The bouncer, a large
bald guy, told me I could not go upstairs with my friends because "no
printed shirts" are allowed. Ok, fair enough. I borrowed a shirt and
was let up. After getting there, I saw several other printed tee shirts
in this supposed "printed tee shirtless" zone. Party at.. well, not Jillian's. | | | | |
| Bob Sumerel Tire | | | Bob Sumerel Tire is a Cincinnati based tire store chain. I had
new tires put on my car, and they pulled to one side. So, they swapped
the front ones. Ok, so they pulled to the other side. I asked for new
tires. Fair enough, they did. Now the car vibrated. I had to take it
back three times for a balance job, none of which they got right. I took
it to a firestone dealer, who
got it right the first time. But, it
doesn't end there. I found out that my alignment toe-in was excessive,
after Sumerel had told me that it was in perfect alignment. I gave them
several tries at getting that right, and each time they told me it was
perfect. The tires didn't last long and neither did the relationship.
The other vendor verified that the toe-in was excessive and the car had
not been aligned right. I do not tolerate being lied to by any business. | | | | |
| Petsmart | | | This happened to a couple of friends of mine, and I promised to put this
up for them. They had gone into Petsmart to buy about $25.00 worth of something,
but had accidentally used a check from a checkbook they had from an account
that had just been closed. The very next day, after they realized that a mistake
had been made, they went back with a new check in hand to replace the first one.
However, Petsmart refused to take the money saying they had to let the first check
go through their "process". Two months later, my friends get a letter from a lawyer
demanding over four times that amount for a "fair settlement" or face litigation.
Petsmart did not send a notice or anything. They just went straight for the jugular,
after having refused a good faith attempt to make right on an honest mistake.
These people aren't fit for dogs.
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| Fifth Third Bank | | | You'd think that the banking industry, which is one of the
few left that is actually competitive, would try to NOT piss off their customers.
Fifth Third (5/3) is an exception to that. I must be some kind of dumb bumpkin
because where I'm from, banks call their customers to warn them
if there's an overdraft and politely ask them if they can fix it. Not 5/3.
Instead, they decided to debit my account $50.00 each day that it was over, without
telling me about it. Instead, they mailed me a mailer that got to me three days later.
Ok, so I moved money from another account to it to clear it up. Whoopity do, right?
Imagine my horror when for the next two days I got two more of these mailers because
of the amount of time it takes for it to get through the mail. Folks, this is nothing
but just plain wrong. I shopped around a while and settled on another bank. I really
enjoyed walking into 5/3 to close my account. The first person who saw me said "Hey,
bud, those are really nice glasses you got on there!" I felt like saying, "Wow! Now
THERE'S someone who's SERIOUS about brown nosing!" Their ego deflated when I informed
them I was closing my account. I have to admit that I took great pleasure in their
groveling. It was great. 5/3 is about 1/3 of a bank.
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| PartsPC.com | | | Submitted by a friend of mine. Yes, they are slow... I'm still dealing with this company over a month later, STILL trying to get working parts from them. They're unresponsive, uncommunicative, and generally (despite their -- your quality service guaranteed -- banners) a piss poor act. Not to mention they have an identity crisis -- in some e-mail they refer to themselves as PartsPC.com, in others MicroX, and in yet others BZBoys.com. Regardless of the name, they still suck. Do not buy from these people. If you value your money, and like timely service for the cash you lay out -- you'd get a quicker, more efficient, bang from ur buck by giving it to bums for cigarettes. Anyway. thought I'd share. :) | | | | |
| Fairfield Volkswagen | | | Like dealing with car salesmen? I can vouch for Fairfield Volkswagen. They're typical crooked slimeballs. I went there thinking I was going to buy a car, but the salesmen there decided to play the "good cop, bad cop" game with me. Another friend of mine actually previously purchased a car there, and he also has indicated that these guys are sleazy slimebags with an extra helping of deep-fried greasy scum. No sale! | | | | |
| LaRosa's Pizzeria | | | LaRosa's is no longer on the black list. A few visits to there, they've gone back to "Ordinary." They're not great, but they don't suck anymore. | | | | |
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