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No contest...a business that has been put out of it's misery VS a company that continues it's reign of terror.
My vote is BOA.
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No contest...a business that has been put out of it's misery VS a company that continues it's reign of terror.
My vote is BOA.
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Circuit City just incompetent-ed themselves out of jobs. Bad at running a company, but not evil. BoA defines evil.
@Radi0logy: AT&T is far more evil than BofA. AT&T set up secret rooms for the NSA to illegally spy on American citizens without a warrant. It is a company that set up the infrastructure for fascism, yet it didn't even make it out of the first round against CC.
@I'm Sorry, You're Wrong.: I agree with you, that is why I voted for AT&T. The problem here is that there are wayyyy too many isheep apple fanbois that are going to gang up and vote for whoever is in the running against AT&T
@Radi0logy: I disagree. I think there were far more people who were upset with their CC buying/work experience than Apple fanbois trying to help AT&T. People love their iPhone, but I rarely read praise for the network it's on. Couple that with the fact that CC was in the news that week and that's how we got that INSANE upset in the first round.
@I'm Sorry, You're Wrong.: And yet BoA is leading in a landslide victory. I think the facts dont bear out your theory.
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@Radi0logy: Indeed. CC incompetent-ed themselves out of business, while BoA incompetent-ed themselves INTO business.
Wait, what?
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@Radi0logy: I didn't realize there were two contests here. Worst Company in America and, apparently, Most Evil Company in America. When did this become about evilness?
@HFC: Worst could be interpreted either as naughty or poorly run, which is why it's such a beautiful word. I try to vote on balance - which company/management just scares the crap out of me. In the AIG/PCA, for example, AIG seems greedy while PCA just doesn't care - the latter is more scary to me. In this one, BoA was scarier to me than CC (I actually had more good than bad experiences at CC). CC was more poorly run, but BoA would probably destroy my fiscal life and think nothing of it.
Which is why I use them for my safe deposit box.
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@HFC:
Seeing as how this contest is being run by a blog about consumer rights one can naturally assume that the context of the competition is how said company treats their employees, consumers, and general environment as a whole (i.e. how \"evil\" that are) as opposed to how successful the business is.
Were this competition being held in a Business Blog then one could naturally assume the opposite but it's not therefor it's most likely a competition about the evilness of said corporations.
@BacteriaEP: Offering a bad customer (or \"consumer\") experience does not equate to being evil. Continually offering bad service makes a company bad. When you rank them all, one is the worst. Still has nothing to do with evil.
@HFC:
In this case your just relying to heavily on the literal definition of the word evil. For this blog's purposes and how widely used the word is here, the term evil aptly defines many of these companies. Obviously none of these companies are going around and murdering, pillaging, and torturing innocent people, which one could argue is the true definition of an evil entity, however within the context of this blog and how the word is used in this blog; these companies are considered evil.
So when people say such and such company is evil they are applying these standards to it. If all you want to do it get into a literary argument over proper use of the word then your in the wrong blog and your definitely in the wrong language. English is one of the most flexible languages in the world and words are always being adapted and changed to suit other needs.
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@Radi0logy: It was Circuit City. Trust me, if it was a vendor problem I would have marched over to Logitech's office and demanded my rebate. Basically they offered a rebate and then didn't fund it and then went out of business. If they weren't incompetent AND evil, they would have funded their own rebate before offering it.
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CC embodies the ultimate fail possible for a business. BOA are the standard banking soulless, greedy, sell-your-own-mother-then-give-yourself-a-raise-types.
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@INsano: I would argue that it should be stated this way:
\"BOA is THE standard in banking soulless, greedy, sell-your-own-mother-then-give-yourself-... to which all greedy banks aspire.\"
Leave the dead to rest. Bank of America wins this one in a landslide.
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I've never opened an account with Bank of America, and yet I've had three with them. The first was when they bought SeaFirst Bank. The second was when they bought MBNA. and the third was when they bought Countrywide.
Given how they've found new and exciting ways to extract money from me each time they take over the companies I *wanted* to do business with, I've spent the better part of my adult life running away from these bastards.
Psst...BoA - I'm about to refinance my home so that you stop receiving interest payments from me. Now fark off.
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@yagisencho: If only BoA would die already. I just loved the article by one of the family members of the founder: priceless!
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@yagisencho: This keeps happening to me too. MBNA, LaSalle ... I keep having to close accounts to escape them.
(I worked for BofA once, incidentally. It was not a bad place to work. But I still felt no urge to bank there. Maybe I would have changed my mind had I been there longer.)
I have a Bank of America account and I still didn't vote for them. Circuit City is still haunting me from beyond the grave. I want my $50, you bastards!
It took me three years to close a checking and savings account at Bank of America. BOA wins hands down.
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One got me some decent video game deals two months ago, VS the other that wanted to to double my interest rate for no good reason... BofA wins!
Now and then I have dealt with B of A, my most recent experience was opening a checking account to direct deposit my SSN check. It was closed 2 days later and it took six weeks to get my $100 opening deposit back. You can see details on this nonsense at: [bankofamericageorgiasucks.blogspot.com] one thing I caught them on was that their fraud department will access your credit reports and use them in making the decision to close the account but the DO NOT notify you that the credit bureaus were used.
The Executive Office guy accidently made reference to their having done a credit report and I was all over him like stink on a cheap suit for their NOT having provided me with the required letter so I could exercise my right to obtain copies of the 2 bureau reports.
I did eventually get the letter and I imagine that the guy got ripped a new one by B of A for having made tyhe mistake of letting this way they ignore Federal credit regulations. You can see the correspondence and how this played out on the above site. If you are in a dispute with them you might want to print out a copy of the B of A letter for your files.
Winning the worst company award just isn't satisfying. They need to file chapter 7 along with Merril Lynch
I went the other way. I voted CC because it was so bad it went out of business. Can't say I like B of A though, they cut my credit from $10k to $500 on one card despite a perfect payment record, and cut off another card completely.
I voted for circuit city - their horrible mismanagement cost thousands of employees their jobs. If BofA was that bad they'd be out of business already too. So BofA seems to be the tortoise in this crap race, which didn't manage to beat the hare.
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In these earlier rounds anyone going up against Bank of Mexico is going to look like the Vienna Boys Choir.
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Had to go BoA on this one. They bought out my credit card, moved the due date up a half month without notifying me and made me wait over an hour on hold to talk to a manager about it. Probably because they did it to so many other people too. They tried to charge me interest and a late fee and the customer service rep called me a liar when I told her they hadn't notified me of the due date change, which they hadn't. Needless to say, I closed the card and will NEVER do business with them again.
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Wow, this is kinda like back in grade school when we picked up for dodgeball and I'd get picked second to last because I wasn't as bad as Jeff M****s. Then Jeff changed schools and I moved into last pick, AKA - best target, by default...
bank of america. i have to vote BofA after the shitty experiences that people i know have from dealing with them. going and not considering ATM usage in Las Vegas as suspicious when we're never in that area is complete assholery of them and then trying to blame my dad for it when he reported it to them plus not giving the money back makes it so i have to call them as the winners.
I can't see voting for Circuit City since they're already out of business. So I'll go with BoA.
I voted BOA because their warnings for this quarter just made the market shit itself again, breaking a week long rally.
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I opened up a Keep the Change account with B of A, which rounded up every debit card purchase to the nearest dollar and put the change in a savings account. I had to open a savings account to use this feature. Then they charged me $4 per month for the savings account. What a ripoff.
I'm now with a credit union. It sucks, too, but not as badly as B of A.
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I've had 2 keep the change accounts and the corresponding savings account for each for the last about 3 years and can say I have NEVER had a problem with BoA ever. CC definitely has my vote on this one.
I'm still pissed off about AT&T being knocked out of the first round. I voted for BofA just to spite all you people who knocked out a real life evil corporation.
I work at PNC, and I am required to explain at account opening that we will look at your prior banking (not credit) history to check that you haven't screwed over six other banks beforehand. I think that's reasonable.
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Bank of America has a negatory on my credit report. I have never done business with them! I hope they beat Citibank for WCIA! And I hope they go bankrupt! I hope the CEO dies of a heart attack! Better yet, I hope Obama fires him!
DOWn, baby, DOWn!
BofA stole $65 from me.
Circuit City's dead Jim!
With that said, Circuit City was just plain lame. Yeah, they fought me of a bad dvd player - wahh... They shorted me $10.00 on a coupon...
BoA however can really fark things up for you and take months to fix it. Now BoA can really be worrisome. In my case they linked my credit card to someone-else's checking account's overdraft protection. At the end of the month found my card was tipple maxed over $10k, Took them eight weeks months to fix it. Then they tried to re-bill me for the interest from their fault, THEN AT MONTH FIVE there were still transactions \"Stuck\" in their system and that took another two months to fix.
Circuit City was just flat-out incompetent. I still can't get over how they attempted to push a crippled PPV DVD format known as DIVX. I haven't been at a Circuit City since 2002.
Bank of America is still alive, though. I just wonder how many customers it continues to gouge with high interest rates, predatory lending practices and similar stuff. Or maybe I'm just also biased against gigantic financial conglomerates.
--dr.bomb
BOA solicits illegal aliens for customers.
Circuit City isn't even a real company! Why are they even listed?!
Bank of America totally sucks. Live Chat is full of reps who can't spell and know nothing. Add It Up doesn't credit cash back. Reps on phone only say I apologize abd claim they understand your frustration. Bank Of Moronica. Credit Card department staffed with total twits. They do nothing.
Circuit city had sales people who didn't know the first thing about selling, were arrogant and rude.
I intuited that they would fail.
BoA sent a friend of mine, a credit card in the mail with a $5000 limit and all they had to do was go on line and activate it.
What is wrong with that scenario is that they had just
(six months ago) filed bankruptcy after an ugly divorce and business failure. Their credit was so bad that when they drove past a bank or a credit union, all the employees would rush outside and point and laugh at them as the drove by.
Not exactly what I would call good business sense.
I don't see why everyone is angry at BoA. From the comments it seems like mainly unique situations and recent credit card adjustments.
Well, I hate to break it to you, but Chase bank has also done all of the things mentioned in these comments. I had a business card with them with a $10,000 limit and they canceled it without notice.
This vote looks like a lot of jumping on the bandwagon to me... Circuit City was by FAR a worse company than BoA. I worked for circuit city as a computer technician... they treated employees even worse than they made the employees treat customers. I would get YELLED at and threatened for putting customers first... it was that bad.
Circuit city is GONE, the winner is BOA - and they also started 2010 just as bad as they were 2009.
Can someone please shut them down ?
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Hmmmm - given that one doesn't exist any more, I'm going to go with the alternative.
@Quibbs0: Wouldn't the one which is no longer in business be a worse company? So bad they couldn't stay in business?