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Monster and AIG were easy. I went with Continental on principle because, well, airline.
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Agreed.
Monster and AIG were easy. I went with Continental on principle because, well, airline.
Agreed.
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I had to go Aetna, trying to pull the good 'ol \"Pre Existing Condition\" on us when there was no history... Damn you Aetna.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexon_America - Korean video game developer partnered with Valve and Nintendo. not sure what they did to get a nomination, though.
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They had a breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of accounts to theft and privacy invasion, tried to cover it up and pretended it didn't happen, blatantly accused their own user base of failing to protect themselves, then had a GM leak their own info stupidly, then have had repeated glitch after glitch that's resulted in massive economy upheaval, regular emergency game outages while they rush to delete things and purge mistakes and have completely failed to protect their users from spree after spree of account hjijacking and other abuses while focusing every single event on maximizing ways of pumping cash out of the people they offer no customer service or support to.
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Thanks. Had been wondering about that. Makes sense they might be in the running for WCIA, then.
The nomination was due to the pissed off community that Nexon gets it's revenue from. Their business practices are horrible and often times unethical. Readers of this site might not know of such things, since Nexon usually gets praised for how much money they make, but the actual players of their games know how it really is.
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Probably someone that got banned for botting on one of their games.
No, it's not. Nexon frequently scams, misinforms, and belittles its players. In the 5 year history of its main game, Maple Story, it has finished no more than 5 out of over 80 patches on time. They're ALL delayed after they start. There are frequent game crippling glitches: main classes not being able to use their skills at all, or not being able to do quest required to obtain them in the first place.
The list goes on. It's not some raging hacker that nominated them.
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Let's remember Assurant Health was the one that was revoking policies from people who have HIV, and lost a lawsuit to that effect...
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Monster and AIG are old news - didn't see much on 'em in the past year. Aetna and Assurant and Target have worked hard to fuck people this year, and deserve to be recognized.
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Vermonster?
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Haha, Vermonster is the name of a 20-scoop Ben & Jerry's sundae available only at their scoop shops.
http://www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/menu/
Wait. That was Monster Energy, wasn't it?
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Agreed, esp. on the Assurant. http://consumerist.com/2010/03/insurance-company-intentionally-targeted-dropped-hiv-patients.html
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Easy pick on Monster Cable, went with Aetna and Assurant Health just because their a health care company.
AIG was quiet this year, hard to pick on them for 2010
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My problem with having AIG in the list is that we own the company. They have been shamed enough and more of it will only hurt our (owners) bottom line. No?
I'm going to say no. They didn't get to where they got by having any kind of shame or self awareness.
Also, they can auction off the Golden Poo for extra money if they should win again.
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Monster and AIG were shoe-ins. I went life lock for my third pick because of their who basing-a-business-model-on-scaring-people thing.
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I voted JG Wentworth for getting their damn jingle/commercial/phone number stuck in my brain.
its your money, use it when you need it!
Man, I wished there's option for Activision-Blizzard for us nerds.
Go go Monster Cable!
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I am just shocked that Consumer Reports was not nominated. I heard they own a number of seedy blogs.
That made me laugh, but I'm easy.
Go on....
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OT: Helloooo Nurse - awesome handle you picked there.
Well, Aetna used to cost me like 48 bucks a month, they have increased their rates without adding any new coverage, so I dropped them. Sprint, well I hate them but they are cheap, can't beat paying 15 bucks a month for data. I'll pick Target cuz they discriminatory fired by brother
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No Cash 4 Gold?
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It's probably on the list, these are iffys.
Yeah, surprised it wasn't there as well.
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voted for LifeLock (and 2 others) for preying on people's fears
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Yeah, Activision needs to be in the bracket. Seriously.
Ubisoft also possibly.
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Yeah Ubisofts DRM is mildly annoying, Assurant Health gives people the choice to go bankrupt or die.
\"Yeah, Activision needs to be in the bracket. Seriously.
Ubisoft also possibly.\"
You can't possibly be serious that they're in the top 5 most harmful as compared to the rest of the companies listed currently.
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after the way AETNA spent 2007-8 making verify every 3-6 months that yes, i still have type 1 diabetes and then wishing me a speedy recovery from my \"inconvenience\"....
oh, actually i voted for them because they mess with the people i support for my job. many health insurance companies make me very peevish
Just goes to show while the healthcare industry claims that insurance companies have qualified medical review boards behind the decisions they make, they're completely removed from reality.
Perhaps one day when the technology exists to regrow people's pancreases from stem cells, the 3-6 month \"courtesy calls\" might be relevant.
Or, they can just read through medical records and listen to the doctors for a change.
Monster cable is that bad? And why Target?
*Sorry, I have missed many stories thanks to uni*
Monster Cable has a set of lawyers on triggers when anyone tries to do any business at all relating to the word 'monster'. They've sued companies older than they were for violation of trademark for having 'Monster' in their name. They also sell cables for about ten to fifteen times the next level, and with no proof that the cables are actually, in fact, better.
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Sprint instead of AT$T? I guess everybody forgot that their service was so bad that thousands of customers tried to bring down their systems in protest at one time.
AIG, Assurant, and LifeLock are the only companies that even belong in this poll, let alone on the list.
As a fellow Monster, I endorse MonsterCable...
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Dear UniversalRemonster!:
It has come to our attention you have used the word \"monster\" as part of a user name or identification on certain blogs.
The name \"monster\" whether used in full or in part or in conjunction with or as an adverb, noun, participle or modifer without the express written consent of \"Monster\" inc, is a violation of our universal copyright on the letters M, O, N, S, T, E, and R in any combination and for any use at anytime, anywhere.
You will cease and desist using the letters M, O, N, S, T, E and R immediately or face further legal action up to but not limited to being forced to buy overpriced media cables, telephone harrassment and being locked in a United Airlines Jet with 100 screaming babies for 72 hours in July, in Houston.
Thank You,
Dewy, Cheatem and Howe
Attorneys for Monster Inc.
a subsidiary of Bank of America
underwritten by Goldman Sachs
Assurant Health is scum. That HIV story was only the most recent and public example of crap I've heard about them.
Went with Aetna because I hate health insurance companies and we had them for a while and they sucked, and Monster Cable, because bogus lawsuits over the word \"Monster\" is not a business model and is a symptom of everything wrong with America.
Looks like Assurant's \"benefiting\" from recency bias. Might a right of recission be in order?
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The story about them targeting people with HIV/AIDS gets them an in no matter what time of year the story came out.
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United \"breaks guitars\" and Southwest says Kevin Smith is too fat to fly. So why is Continental the one that gets nominated?
United and Southwest may have already made it into the bracket.
3 days ago i was in a RadioShack in Toluca Lake, Ca, We needed a 5ft HDMI cable.
I saw the nice cables (3 FEET FOR 59$ and 6FT for 89.99!! not even monster! (which was 129.99)and asked where the cheaper ones were,
The Rep said \"thats it, Thats a really good deal\"...... i blank face stared at the guy and asked him if he knew that since it was a digital signal, even the cheapest of cables were completely indistinguishable from each other on the screen.
He said \"hehe right, if you say so\" Like i was talking about something i didnt know about...
So i said... Very plainly, To the radioshack rep \"if you set me up a blind test and you can tell which one is the 80$ cable and which is the 15$ cable, Ill give you 1000$ cash right now\"
The rep said \"yeah.. he.... yeah.. id .. lets do that.\" then nonchalantly/nervously slowly walked into the back of the store, where he never came back from..... Me and my freind looked at each other, Because i was serious, it didn't sound like i was joking, and i wasn't.... not in the least... After waiting for a few minutes it became clear that he just went into the back to get away from us, and had no intention of participating in such a comparison, nor any confidence in what he was saying/selling whatsoever.
Radioshack=FAIL....... How long will it take for you to understand that because your prices are insane no one will buy anything from you? And that you may financially think raising prices is a good idea, or finding items with the highest margin possible, But no......
The ANSWER is having quality products, that people want to buy, at good prices....... Maybe then I'll be able to just walk next door to get a cable rather than drive 10-20 minutes to a place that has it for 10% of that price.....
Frys, 19.99 For a 10ft BRAIDED HDMI Cable, Perfect picture quality as always
.... We dont have more room for one more worst company do we? Im pretty sure us consumerists would choose AIG, Monster, and The terrible people who hawk monster to idiots for 200$... RadioShack
Check out Monoprice.com for HDMI - and many other cables. Then remember, they actually make a profit at that price. I got mine there and they were a better quality than the $30 cable I looked at at the big box store.
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I said this a while back about another Radio Shack item here. RS could have a great thing going, if they would just take advantage of it. Basic cables, 5 feet or less, for $15 or less, plus gender changers for $5. All the time. They would make a KILLING, and the foot traffic to their stores would increase. Think about it: Buy a printer from Best Buy, scoff at their high cable prices saying \"Hey, I can get these for cheaper at Radio Shack! Let me go there next!\" But NOOOOOOOOOO. They have to take the LOW ROAD, DOUBLE everyone else's insane price for cables, then wonder why nobody buys there.
If they could actually rub a few brain cells together, they might have something.
How is Sears not on the list?
You forgot Monsanto.
It probably didn't get nominated.
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How is Paypal not on the list?
I'm disappointed Monster Cable is \"on the bubble.\" I'd have figured they were highly seeded in this tournament!
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Assurant. Just because I hate their ads.
Nexon America has got to have the worse customer service. They have decent games but when it comes to helping out their customers, they put little to no effort into resolving their issues.
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I actually really like Target - I know they're getting bad press around restructuring... but any company that restructures any significant part of their business gets bad press.
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what no Kabletown?
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Um, why do I have to pick 3 companies? Why can't I just pick the 1 I know (from personal experience) is a crappy company?
Mon$ter cable; for overpriced cables. Stores like Best buy and others like tell you that you need that crap.
Bose; Same as above, overpriced crap and bad sound. Go to some stores with ipod decks, you can try most except Bose ones, which have a plate over the slot.
Galanet-gpotato; Bad customer service. My account there got hacked and many items from 2 games gone. Spent over $1000 in their cash store, but repeated emails to solve problem got me banned. Cant post in their message boards without a over zealous gm or moderator locking or deleting your message.
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Please tell me that Cablevision is on the list.
Interesting how none of the oil companies are listed. The oil companies who complain the price of gas is so high because the Saudi's have high crude prices yet they continue to post record profits. Things that make you go hummmm!
Looks like Aetna and Target are battling for that fifth spot right now.
I too have Aetna and haven't had problems. Yet.
i've never had any problems with Target.
I've had Aetna insurance for a year, and never had any problems (but also haven't asked them to do anything big)