Comments on: Do you boycott shops and businesses?

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:28:26 +0000

I boycott Claire’s Accessories ever since I pointed out the difference between the £6 and €10 on an item. I was told they were repricing. They were – the next time I looked the sterling price had been blacked out and it was now €11.50!!!

By: Donal

Donal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:14:11 +0000

I’ve avoided Chartbuster ever since a fine was incurred for a late return and I wasn’t allowed rent the film I chose. I went next door to Xtravision and have been going there ever since. That was about 8 years ago now so that’s a lot of business they lost.

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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:30:54 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:27:08 +0000

I’ve boycotted Apache pizza ever since they made a complete mess of a delivery order about 8 years ago. When I rang to complain, they were quite offensive on the phone (I wasn’t, by the way). I then wrote a letter of complaint, but never heard back. I haven’t bought a pizza there since, and I have bought quite a lot of pizzas! None of my friends do either, after this experience. Another takeaway gave me severe food posining (it was the only thing I had eaten) and I wrote a letter of complaint to them, although I knew there was little they could do – however, I figured the manaager would like to know. No response, therefore no further business from me or anyone I know – who wants to order from a firm with a risk of food poisoning, when there are so many others? A polite letter back from them might have saved their (now closed) business.

By: barry

barry — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:25:36 +0000

I have been boycotting Nestle since forever. I used to work for an agency in France which had Nestle as a client, it was a prob for me. It gets harder and harder to keep going, Nestle own so many different things. I have noticed in some cases that they have removed the Nestle name on the packaging and reverted to the original…
Why boycott? N was the company who introduced breast milk substitute, and still sells it, in underdeveloped countries, where walter quality, amongst other things, is a problem….

By: John

John — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:11:42 +0000

If you are not happy, complain and don’t go back.

Walk away, if you go back then you cannot complain because you have accepted the service/price that is being offered to you.

Each one of us has the power to change things.

By: valueireland

valueireland — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:31:33 +0000

@declanh – You raise an interesting point with regards to Ryanair. In some situations, because of Irelands lack of competition, we like to avoid companies but because there’s no alternative, we’re stuck with the crap we have to deal with sometimes.

@roisin – I guess what you’re doing is effectively a kind of boycott. I’m a big supporter of buying Irish here, and I would act somewhat the same way as you.

@Tom – Bit of a generality there, but each to their own I suppose.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:07:48 +0000

I try to avoid Chinese products – not for any political reason but because they always break!

Also few pubs/restaurants because of bad service.

By: roisin

roisin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:10:43 +0000

does trying to buy irish wherever i can mean that i boycot other shops?

By: declanh

declanh — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:26:52 +0000

I will never shop in Tesco after a manager in my local store accused me of shoplifting.

Not sure how he picked on me, but claimed there was cctv footage evidence.

Only for my wife was with me (a solicitor), I’d have been done for something a whole lot more serious.

I used to try to avoid Ryanair, but given the prices and choices of destinations, I just can’t avoid them most of the time now.

There are a couple of restaurants that I avoid now as well after some bad experiences.

I also avoid a couple of places where I know I was ripped off (short changed, over charged etc) but didn’t bothter going back to complain.