UPDATE: There were so many bad companies that it broke our poll system. We'll have to take down the post and find a new poll system and try again. Any recommendations for non-crappy poll systems that can handle over several thousands responses?
UPDATE: We are working on a new poll solution and hope to try this again tomorrow.
]]>The worst company ever is EBAY!!
]]>To me the worst company is an evil company. And Exxon Mobil is evil personified. Did you read the article about trying to get a reduced judgement on the Exxon Valdez environmental disaster. The company has no conscience. If ANWAR were opened up they would be the first company up there drilling holes left and right. They made 40 billion dollars last year. 100 dollar a barrell oil is making a shambles of our economy and they keep recording record profits. I am glad Venezuela nationalized Exxons holdings. This companies sales exceeds the GNP of most nations. Heck OPEC was probably their idea.
]]>ATT / we don't care we don't have to
]]>Now hurry up and fix the polls before all this spite wears off.
]]>Hope you can get it up soon (sorry, that sounds rude) ...
]]>@flairness:
Unless they posted about some other person's nightmare problem with Verizon DSL, yes, they posted it. But it's possible it was someone else - I wouldn't be surprised if this is a trend.
It seems to me that a staggering number of you are too hung up on this rather unjustified "Screw Best Buy" band wagon. Yes, I understand that there have been mess ups, but every one of them involve maybe one person, two maybe.
Frankly, there are bigger fish than Best Buy that deserve the vote.
]]>A corrupt company with poor management, a poor product mix and a dismal future.
]]>Starbucks
Amazon
ebay
Southwest Airlines
]]>but tbh, for me its the gas/oil companies, or sprint, right now I hate sprint
]]>Without a doubt, Best Buy is the WORST company on the face of the planet. I wish they would go away, I even PRAY for it. Yes, they got me good ONCE.
]]>runner-up: any contractor in Iraq
]]>cable one
]]>BEST BUY......sucketh
]]>4. I'm just kidding about (3), but you aren't.
]]>Pick one of the 3, Comcast or Best Buy or Circuit City.
]]>For the first round, split them into groups that are based on industry. So all the telecoms would be on one ticket, all the electronics retailers on another ticket, ... and so on.
The winners of each round would face off in 1v1 cage matches.
]]>@Papa Midnight: Seriously. Consumerist, give me 10 minutes and your database schema and I'll write one for you.
]]>/ducks.
]]>Right now . . . Yahoo is majorly sucking. They've blocked me for my spam reporting. Go figure that one.
]]>@flairness:
Yeah, I read about that, that is awful! Nice nick-name, Flairness. :)
Best Buy tries their best, but they don't hold a monopoly on expensive crap for stupid people.
Comcast, however, does have a non-trivial amount of the United States in its monopoly. A company can suck to a whole nother level when it doesn't have consequences to its actions.
]]>You could also populate a simple Dropdown box with the names, and a Submit button. That would lesson the load.
]]>/"Where's my e-vitation?"
//sorry, not fark
The polls that Will Leitch uses dont breakdown.....
]]>"And it looks like it's Bank of America down the homestretch, pulling away like a freight train from the rest of the field...."
]]>@Sherryness: What Sherry said. No poll for me, either.
]]>Well, I guess there is an issue with the poll. But my deciding factor would have to be which company cost me the most time while contacting Customer Service. Thus Verizon would get my vote, hands-down! I had to contact them 4 times in the last 12 months, and no encounter (I say "encounter" because one contact was a CSR online, the other 3 were phone calls) was under 40 minutes. The fourth and FINAL encounter was 64 minutes, but that was the one where I got them to cancel me with no ETF! Woohoo!
]]>I am so not-a-moron, but I can't see this poll. Is it because I'm using IE? I'll switch over and try Firefox...
]]>Why can't I see the poll?
]]>I must be missing something. There's nothing loading, and I don't see a poll.
]]>Can someone from the help desk come by please? I can't find the poll gawddamnit
]]>I'm gonna have to go with Fox News because their propaganda/sensationalism is hurting us the most.
Exxon would be next since they're gouging us.
Healthcare/pharmaceutical would be next.
I think maybe he's suggesting that the AAA shouldn't even exist... ?
]]>@rodeobob: Can you even articulate what (if anything) the AAA had to do with those cases? Your comments suggest that you don't understand the role of the AAA.
]]>I'm biased by my recent experiences, but I chose Ticketbastard, because I just paid $93 for two $33 concert tickets. WTF???
]]>Wow, a smorgasboard of coporate evil, so hard to choose just one!
There are some companies listed that I have not yet read Consumerists posts about. Could each company named be a hyperlink to posts to help share previous postings?
]]>@clevershark: Yea, but Haliburton and Blackwater customers aren't the usual consumers addressed by this site. *and it pains me that my company is on this list... :( *
]]>I would like to see a "Worst Industry In America" contest after this. I wanna see Credit Unions and Health Insurance companies battle it out.
]]>So I'd like to thank Exxon for encouraging me to cut them off and live a healthier lifestyle!
]]>Chase, on the other hand, is like Usury-R-Us. They receive full marks for both Scope of Awfulness and Thoroughness of Awfulness, and get my vote.
I have to agree, though - no matter how scuzzy a clothing store or an electronics outlet, they don't have the potential for the widespread, monopolistic evil that a pharmaceutical company or a lender has. Come on, people, let's get some perspective.
]]>I'm going to have to go with Microsoft on this one. After about two dozen calls to their customer service line, as well as two BBB complaints, they still can't solve my Xbox woes.
]]>U-ni-ted! U-ni-ted! They're a special kind of horrible.
]]>This poll, although you included a lot of companies is not quite up to par.
]]>seconded
]]>Other than that, I haven't had any problems at all with any of the other companies I do business with, including WaMu, United Airlines, Comcast and Sprint.
Regardless of what I read about other people's experiences, here and elsewhere, I think it's better to base my vote on my own experience.
]]>The American Arbitration Association got my vote. Seriously, these folks are hurting America. Female contractors allegedly raped in Iraq have to go through arbitration, and can't go through the civil courts. That's the (gruesome) tip of the iceberg; any system where the judges are hired by one side of an argument, and where repeat business is desired, has some ugly built-in bugs- er, features!
]]>My vote was not added to the list.. so it's really 122.
]]>So many to choose from, so many bad experiences. But c'mon, I'm the first person to pick Exxon? Yeah, Comcast may have screwed you on your bill and Verizon mails out bills that are unreadable to the layman, but Exxon is weilding it's gnarled cock of corporate greed every single day, and taking us to the bank the do so. C'mon people, get angry.
]]>Please i beg everyone to come back and vote for AT&T. I work for this shit that you call AT&T Mobility, and we suck!!
]]>Dont make me choose between Comcast and Best Buy.
]]>Right now its 100% to Comcast!
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