Family blacklists do you have them?

[Bearnecessity]

We do....got Zenith car insurance, Barclays Bank on ours...

Ryan Air
Wetherspoons
Asda
The town post office, which is inconvenient
The RSPCA
The local Sainsbury's self service checkout where the bloke on the tills calls everyone "Me Ansums" or "Me Luvverrr" in an overdone Cornish accent and laughed when he asked me for ID when buying wine. He had just been pulling my leg you see. Hilarity! (I appreciate I'm a sour puss and a grumpy face when it comes to this one)

Well my family is just me, so my family blacklist counts as one!

A sweet shop round the corner from my house. The owner sits outside on the windowsill smoking cigarettes and looks at me and my children as if she's going to kill us in our sleep.

A corner shop in the village because the owner was very judgemental and said I should have kept up with my bills when I went to top up my electric and the key wasn't working. We had just bought a house that happened to have a prepayment meter. We changed the meter asap.

Ryanair, Ryanair and Ryanair.

Body shop and Lush because of the intrusive sales staff. I got asked if I wanted help 7 times in a Lush once.

Wetherspoons because that owner gives me the heebie jeebies.

WH Smith because someone bought us a photograph experience with our first born and by the time we eventually got round to booking it, it was out of date. No refund, partial payment for something else, offer to honour for an extra tenner, nothing. They just kept the £40 which is just nuts. Haven’t set foot in a store since.

Amazon
Lush
Anywhere the shop assistant won't take no for an answer when trying to make me enrol in a loyalty card scheme. I walked out without buying anything when an assistant in Superdrug wouldn't stop going on about the card and let me pay for the items I wanted to buy.

M&S and their pseudo wokeness.

I live in the Us, so slightly different companies

Unos for food poisoning my DH and not giving a stuff
The insurance company that cancelled my coverage and never told me. I found out by chance and had been uninsured driving a car for 3 months

The NHS for telling me that DS hadnt broken his leg and it was just a sprain and he should walk on it to build it back up. I took a photo of the xray they showed me on he computer screen and emailed it to his US doctor who said it was def broken and he should not weight bear until we could get it casted. I then had to hire a wheelchair and crutches to get him home. The NHS called me 10 days later to say ummm someone else had reviewed the xray and uummmmm it was broken and could we come back to review it and cast it. We were home, he was casted and it healed properly. Never trusting them for anything important again, luckily I dont have to.

Ocardo at the moment when they sent me a lovely email telling me I'd be first on their list for Xmas shopping slots. Then I heard buggar all! Only by chance did I see them pop up in the app. I asked them repeatedly why they had failed to follow up on their promise and they have no answer.

Ryanair, avoid unless absolutely impossible
AEG
Direct Line
Wish we could backlist BT. Maybe next year.
A local tyre place where they call women ‘Madam’. It makes me feel so patronised.
SAFESTYLE windows.

Our village shop - I'd rather walk the 6 miles into town than buy anything from the owners. They're the King and Queen of pondscum .

MacMillan, will never donate to them again, appalling ‘care’ of 3 relatives, so not a one off.
Aviva insurance, made life very traumatic for a while after my husband passed away.
Orange (now EE) again made life stressful after my husband passed. They told me they were going to write off what was owed on his account (around £20) but instead sent baliffs to my front door.
My local Asda pharmacy, they couldn’t organise anything. Very rude staff.
Our local Kia dealership, we took the car for service, they incorrectly adjusted the handbrake, brakes locked on while on holiday in Tenby, the following week, in the one way system. The abuse from other car drivers was appalling, most thought we were waiting for someone to come out of sainsburys. When we went back into the dealership to tell them about our ordeal and what had been wrong with the car their attitude was simply unbelievable and rude.

Asda. Once did a home delivery. They gave me someone else's shopping. Instead of nappies for a newborn I got 5 giant boxes of bran flakes. The driver refused to accept it was an error and ran off. It took 3 weeks to sort out.

This is 15 years ago. I didn't realise I was that good at grudge bearing.

'WH Smith because someone bought us a photograph experience with our first born and by the time we eventually got round to booking it, it was out of date. No refund, partial payment for something else, offer to honour for an extra tenner, nothing. They just kept the £40 which is just nuts. Haven’t set foot in a store since.'

Baffled by this one. I used to work somewhere where gift vouchers had printed on them very clearly, that they couldn't be used after expiry, and no change would be given. But people wanted to use them after expiry, and wanted change to be given.

Why is your failure to book something in good time, the fault of the retailer?

A local car dealership who wouldn’t give me a price for my car without me signing to buy a new (secondhand) car first! Salesman was lovely - Manager a tosser so walked away.

My local Costa who prioritise the Uber eats (or whatever they’re called) over the customers standing in a queue!

Turkey,
HSBC
ToysRUS
Argos
Local Garage(overcharged by £450) for replacement part
Curry’s,
Hastings insurance (wouldn’t quote as I didn’t have email account with my name in it) we use surname as family account. The woman just kept repeating not quoting, not quoting.

BBC
John Lewis
M&S
Local gas fitter

Argos, I once spent 9.99 with a £10 gift card and they wouldn't give me the penny change, saying I had to spend it in the shop. When I pointed out that they didn't sell anything for 1p they got really stroppy.

I took them to the small claims court and got over £50.01 from them (I billed them £30 for the time wasted claiming and £20 compensation, plus the 1p)

Vodafone: 30 years ago (at least) I cancelled an account online with them. They took the order on line and the payment details online but cancelling 'had' to be done by snailmail. Just fuck the fuck off.

You were managing your mobile account online in 1991?

An entire city because it's where my ex was from.

Home bargains - they treat their staff like shit

Holland & Barrett. Their courier swore blind he'd delivered my parcel, gave the H&B rep my description (must have Googled me, as I was at the cinema with my mum when he claimed to have delivered so he had not handed the parcel to me as my house was empty), H&B rep told me he'd been given an accurate description of my appearance (he'd also never seen me so must have Googled me the same way the courier did), and basically called me a liar and a thief and it was only after I sent a photo of me with my then pink hair to his boss to prove they were both incompetent idiots because the photo they'd found online had a different hair colour that I got a refund and an apology. I will never shop there again.

Another one for wetherspoons! A torrential downpour hit when I was heavily pregnant out walking our dog. I stood under the entrance to the pub- not inside, just a little roof bit that pokes out. A young lad came out to explain his manager told him I have to move as it's private property and they don't allow dogs. There was no pub seating and no one else around. I had hormones running wild and was about to cry so left. The worst bit for me was that the crappy manager had clearly got this young kid to do his dirty work.

@SeaToSki that exact thing happened to me! Sadly I don’t have any other options but to use the NHS so they are not blacklisted

Prezzo
Ryanair
RBS

@SeaToSki

I live in the Us, so slightly different companies

Unos for food poisoning my DH and not giving a stuff
The insurance company that cancelled my coverage and never told me. I found out by chance and had been uninsured driving a car for 3 months

The NHS for telling me that DS hadnt broken his leg and it was just a sprain and he should walk on it to build it back up. I took a photo of the xray they showed me on he computer screen and emailed it to his US doctor who said it was def broken and he should not weight bear until we could get it casted. I then had to hire a wheelchair and crutches to get him home. The NHS called me 10 days later to say ummm someone else had reviewed the xray and uummmmm it was broken and could we come back to review it and cast it. We were home, he was casted and it healed properly. Never trusting them for anything important again, luckily I dont have to.

Sorry Seatoski nightmare this also happened to my brother aho had a very badly broken arm...

I like the idea of a real family blacklist I could put a few on there..for sure...

Local VW service department