What pointless one woman/man boycott are you staging?

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Here's my one woman boycotts.

I have boycotted Wadebridge because they elected a total wanker to the town council who said that disabled children should be culled to save money. I rarely visit Wadebridge anyway.

I have also boycotted Dartington Hall Estate for unreasonable parking fines. I park outside the grounds. Nobody cares.

And lego minifigures as DS2 always ends up with a frigging princess or mermaid or something and we have to deal with the tears. I'm sure their sales figures are unaffected.

None of my boycotts will make any difference whatsoever. I realise this.

So what are your pointless boycotts?

Currys.

They wouldn't extend a special offer that had expired by about a nanosecond so they have done without my business ever since (apart from a v. reasonable small TV for the kitchen but that was an honourable exception, m'lud)

Also a department store in my home town because they wouldn't honour a warranty they had issued due to apparently being a completely and utterly different company to the one who had issued it by virtue of that having gone into the hands of the receivers. The new caboodle went tits up a while back. I was unsurprised.

Starbucks. I fear they haven't noticed, though.

Some of these seem quite sensible compared to mine...

Perle de lait yoghurts because I hate the adverts and those smug women.

Ariel washing stuff because my mum boycotted it and i'm not even sure why but she drummed it into me and my sister not to buy it...I clearly need to investigate what kind of ariel related incident took place that led her to this drastic course of action.

All films that have been made from books I have read...always disappointing, it drives DP mad....

Reading through the thread I've remembered some others

Thomas Cook for appalling customer service over a complaint and for being greedy shites selling "local currency converters" which turned out to be tatty bits of badly printed cardboard for a quid.

John Lewis who wouldn't waive the delivery charge for a faulty bit of tat we had returned to the shop which was out of stock there but available online. We replaced it with one from Amazon at about a third of the price which is still going strong.

Sometimes it amazes me there are any shops left I haven't fallen out with

Guy Fawkes Night- he was not the ringleader.

Ryanair

Peas, as they remind of John Major, under whose government Sundays were spoilt forever and railways privatised.

I know someone who will never travel on the train named after Delia Smith as he is an Ipswich Town supporter.

I boycotted my local pets at home that opened next to a little independent that had been there for years. Sadly my boycott failed and the independent closed last year :(

I am also a vegitarian anti Nestle, iv become a little self righteous in my old age!

Forgot to mention Very and Yodel after my recent attempt to purchase a laptop from the former that was delivered by the matter.

wyrdbyrd yes Yodal, I forgot about them!

Not so much a boycott as a longstanding grudge, but Milky Bars. I won a colouring competition 26 years ago and the prize was a years supply of Milky Bars. I was expecting a lorry. They sent me 6 Milky Bars. Which I suppose is technically a years worth, if I only ate one every other month. I still can't look at a Milky Bar without getting irrationally angry. Bastards.

Talking to my sister just reminded me of another - Bath at Christmas! I've nothing against the city for the other 11 months of the year but we went on a rainy day on a Saturday in December when I was 6 months pregnant and it was AWFUL. It rained and rained, we waited for about an hour for the park and ride bus (of course then 2 turned up ), which then took another hour to get into town because of the traffic, by the time we arrived I was ready to eat my own arm but we couldn't find anywhere with a free table. The market was so busy the stalls had crowds 3 people deep in front of them so there was no chance me and my bump were going to see their wares. I couldn't face the bus back to the car so our friends who lived there took pity on us and drove us back to it even though it was in the wrong direction for them. I've visited Bath since but never in December

Oh and my local newsagents, for telling everyone my sister had been caught shoplifting. Which was true. 25 years and several changes of ownership later, I still don't go in if I can help it.

I started boycotting the mail on Sunday after reading a shock horror fill double page spread quite a while ago. The spread was about PayPal, which they described as a service used to pay for porn online. The 'bad guy' was a director of PayPal (or something) 'the online porn-payment service'. Like we don't all have PayPal accounts for eBay.
Tossers.

I'm boycotting a well known bakery in crouch end because 25 years ago the manager treated me really badly when I worked there. They may not have noticed though I moved to south london many years ago

My fav pointless boycott though is DD. She boycotts Phase Eight (this manifests by refusing to ever enter a phase eight or even walk through a concession in john lewis with me) she's 15 by the way so not really in their target demographic! The reason for this is because several years ago her favourite independent cafe closed and several months later a phase eight opened on the site.

Tescos eye testing as they had a free offer so thought I would finally get my eyes tested.

Woman wanted all my details, which she carefully typed into the computer despite me saying " can't you just swipe the tesco card?" And as it went on and on " I just want an appointment! I'm not applying for a visa or anything" finally she said " date of birth?" And I said why? She said " the computer wants it, I don't know why." She agreed it was all v intrusive so I made one up.

And why does ocado try and sell me cat food all the time? Planning to boycott them too, if they don't stop. Have they deduced from my shopping there is no man at my place so I presumably have/ think I might get a cat?:)

I am boycotting broccoli after finding a caterpillar in my dinner last week despite washing the fecking stuff TWICE

the Notting Hill Carnival. Circa 1999 two cans of red stripe downed and busting but standing patiently in queue for loo with about six people in front of me and four behind. Some rough girl with a pineapple ponytail comes up to me mutters something but all I hear is 'can I go in front of you'. I say no as I am busting and she starts screaming in my face ' you f*ing bitch I told you I have cancer and you won't lets me go in front of you you fat cow'. I questioned why she asked me and not the front of the queue. I can only surmise it was because I was the fattest (12 stone) in the queue. Ruined the day for me have never returned.

I also boycott posh Toby Tiger kids shops due to snotty shop assistant looking distastefully at SD aged 8 as she looked carefully at their items on sale. I go in there now to get nice toy ideas and then go on Amazon. also browns bars for treating some hippiesh friends like shit.

woozle surveyors - yep.
For this house I paid for a more thorough survey ...apparently they couldn't see anything because of the floor coverings but also stuff in eaves cupboard etc. Also still had to have an electric, gas and boiler check. Made a big deal about previous owner cutting out the rafters & framing for a velux in the attic (never fitted)...had to be urgently reininstated...14 yrs later still had no problems (structural engineer saw it and said it was fine)
He missed the double glazed window/door panel in the kitchen (1/4 of the back of the house) was so loose it was moving in the wind and the double glazing was so badly fitting I could see daylight between some of the window openings and the frame, the back patio was laid above the damp proof and another neighbour had raised his ground level above the damp proof on the other side (reason my under stair cupboards smell musty all year round).
New house - basic survey- said it needed cavity wall insulation - someone came round to survey for it and it had obviously already been done - I could see the injection marks! And we have a few cracks in the wall - visible through the wall paper in a couple of rooms but just settling apparently (architectural engineer told me) but they should have been mentioned...

I have a one woman boycott of Tesco, because of their shitty planning practises - buying up supermarkets opposite each other and then closing one down, so they have no competition - that sort of thing.

They have recently been shown to have some very dubious, if not downright fraudulent accounting practises, which makes me feel even more justified.

I used to boycott a shop in the village, where the woman on the till once gave my DD (would have been about 11 or 12 at the time) evils as she walked around the shop, trying to choose a present for a friend. She then shortchanged her - gave her change for £5, when she paid with a £20. I had to go in with her to get the money back.

Anyhow, the shop has now closed down, so it appears my boycott was not so pointless, after all!

Any self-service tills - to quote, I think, Janet Street-Porter "self-service is no service"

Chicken Cottage - the worst named fast food joint ever. The name justifies a boycott.

Amazon - the bastards are destroying the book trade, not to mention our high streets

I have boycotted the car chain Arnold Clark's since 2008. My car was in for a service, they phoned to say it was ready. I got there to find it 'wasn't quite ready". They fobbed me off repeatedly and it turned out they hadn't started work on it.

The receptionist must have known this when I arrived but I sat like a mug for over 2 hours.

I was late picking up DS2 ( then aged 9) from school. He was upset, I was upset but AC were not bothered.

I was a loyal customer and paid over the odds for car servicing . Every time I drive past the dealership I remember that day. Even if they were giving away free cars I would never go back. I feel better now. Thanks OP.

Scottish Power. We were with them for ages because I was too lazy to shop around and as our Brit Gas homecare arrangement was up for review I thought I'd ring and ask Scottish Power to quote me for theirs. When I got through the woman on the line was very disinterested, and asked me all sorts of questions that weren't about homecare, including making me go and get up to date meter readings, then informed me that we weren't paying enough, so our direct debit would be going up by £10 a month!! To add insult to injury, she then said that the quotation system was down for homecare, and she would call back once it was working again. And never called back!
The bright side was that it spurred me on to actually compare energy suppliers, and within a week I'd moved us to edf who were a good £25 per month less.
When a rep from Scot Power called to ask why I was leaving I took great delight in telling her exactly why

I boycott 4OD.

I can't be doing with the ridiculous amount of adverts. I wouldn't mind if they were different but they're the same each time. I didn't mind when Adblock could be used but now there's a silly amount of breaks with about 5 adverts a time!

I boycott one of my town's cafes as the owner gave me a smaller cake than the one I had pointed at.

I boycott Nestle and all the hangers on for being atrocious cunts, that includes looking at picture of George wankstain Clooney, Body Shop and L'Oréal, etc.

I boycott eating bunnies cos it isn't nice.

I boycott Manchester because I'm so sick of people banging on about how wonderful it is - just stfu will you?

I boycott Burberry because I hate their 'style'.

I have boycotted my dentist since 1991

And I boycott anyone from Madrid as I have a madrileño ex and he was a one-push comer not very good in the bedroom.

Those companies who have been exposed as tax dodgers

Those food retailers that admit their meat is halal

Those companies that joined the workfare program and got free labour

Fois gras