People Are Revealing The Brands, Stores, And Restaurants That Made Them Say “Never Again”

Have you ever had such a bad experience with a product or service that you decided you would never go there or use them again? A restaurant that gave you food poisoning? A store with horrible customer service? A product that kept breaking over and over again?

On Reddit, folks are talking about the brands they will never use after having a bad experience—and let’s just say that I will never eat at Golden Corral after reading through this list. 

1. “Tempting,” but…

“Temptations cat treats, there’s something in those things that turn cats into absolute junkies.” —  New_Game_P1us

2. New phone bill, who dis?

“AT&T from back in the days of long distance, said they’d get me a good rate to Thailand, which we call all the time. Bill comes and its 10x the advertised rate. I call. The first guy can’t fix the bill. I escalate to a ‘manager.’ He says, ‘You are correct. I’ll fix your bill.’ Next day he calls back and says ‘we’ve decided not to fix your bill.’ — dudinax

3. But it’s so cheap!

“Planet fitness. Moved back to my home state from SF. Forgot to cancel my membership. Tried from the App: Nope. Tried from my local Planet Fitness: Nope. Said I had to MAIL IN A COPY OF MY LICENSE ANS PROOF OF MEMBERSHIP. So i cancelled that credit card because that was easier than getting my membership cancelled.” — Domo-omori

4. Bargain cheese, never again.

“Dollar Tree shredded cheese. Just. Don’t. Please don’t be like me and try it.” — zaagan-daas

5. Sprinting to another provider.

“Sprint – couple of years ago they let someone buy over $2,000 worth of phones in my moms name. Didn’t ask for ID or anything. They got an address but it was off by a couple of numbers. My mom didn’t notice for a couple of months when her credit got flagged when they were trying to get approved for a loan or something. She fought with Sprint to get the charges removed from her credit. We’ve never had Sprint before so don’t know how that was a massive oversight especially with no ID and the wrong address.” — Avatar_014

6. 0 stars.

“Doordash. When 50% of my orders never made it to me, and one of the drivers cusses me out for having the audacity to ask for my food, they go on the never again list.” — angrylittlehobbit

7. Sofa-king rude.

“Ashley furniture. Tried to use the extra protection plan we brought for our sofa that broke. They picked it up and then they tried to deliver it back to the wrong address 4 GOD DAMN TIMES. We were without a sofa for a month and a half when we were told us it would be 7 days because they couldn’t figure out how to update our fucking address. I literally had to go into a physical location because their phone customer service just couldn’t figure out how to update a simple address and refused to escalate and it was literal insanity. I wish I was exaggerating.” — sav575757

8.  I’d rather hitchhike.

“Greyhound bus. If you’ve got no other option, buckle up, it’s going to get weird.” — Highplowp

9. If you hate them, then you gotta put a ring on it?

“Jared. I went in with something specific in mind for a ring and asked the salesman to please show me what he had comparable to that criteria. Right off the bat he put his hands up and said, ‘whoa whoa whoa, slow down. Just be calm.’ And quite frankly that set my teeth on edge because I don’t think there’s anything aggressive about truthfully answering the question ‘how can I help you’ ya know? He then kept trying to get me a latte and telling me to relax and settle down which was only serving to upset me more. When he finally got around to showing me merchandise, he showed me a ring that had an inclusion so large in the stone that it looked like a giant scratch through the middle. And when I said ‘this ring has a scratch in it” he insisted to me that I didn’t know what I was looking at and that I wasn’t properly appreciating the beauty of this ring.'” — Empkat

10.  🤮

“Target brand tampons. I’ll skip the details. If you know, you know.” — sarebear77

11. 

“Whichever brands incessantly advertise at me.” — beansshaddow

12. 

“I worked at VS [Victoria’s Secret] for about a year a long time ago. Was always bothered by the fact that any clothing returned was put right back out on the floor. Bras, underwear, all of it…haven’t shopped there since.” — SardaSis

13. 

“Spirit airlines. The one time my family has flown Spirit there was a crushed taco salad in the pull-down desk, and the whole plane smelled vaguely like baby powder.” — f1nchley

14. 

“American buffets. Ryan’s, Golden Corral, Old Country Buffet, etc…I worked at one. Trust me. Do not.” — DabKogurzim

15. 

“Soon after she left me in 1998, my ex wife wanted to meet for a post mortem conversation. I suggested we meet at Pizzeria Uno. About 20 minutes into our agonizing conversation, she looked around and said: ‘Wait. You hate Pizzeria Uno.’ I replied: ‘I sure do. I’m not going to ruin a place that I like with terrible memories. I’m never entering a Pizzeria Uno again.’ And I haven’t.” — IGHOTI907

16. 

“Longhorn Steak House. Reason: all but 2 people in our party (of 15 people) got horrid food poisoning. Mine was so bad that I threw out my back from vomiting and retching, and couldn’t take pain medicine without throwing it up. So I couldn’t sleep because of having intense stomach and back pain that lasted a week.” — PassiveHulk

17. 

“Skullcandy headphones. Bought a pair once, they broke, got them replaced, they broke, got them replaced, they broke, gave up. Didn’t do anything out of the ordinary with them, I’dd pull them apart a bit to place them.over my head and SNAP, two pieces.” — uitSCHOT

18. 

“Angel Soft toilet paper. It might as well be called ‘S****y Fingers.'” — gay_bandito

19. 

“Planet Fitness. Manager called me after I had emailed about an issue and left a voice mail. Except when he hung up, he missed the receiver and I was treated to two minutes of him trash talking me. Called back and said, ‘Yep, go ahead and cancel that membership and next time make sure you hang up.’ F*** those chain gyms.” — CoryVictorious

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Patricia Grisafi

Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a freelance writer and educator. Her work has appeared in Salon, Vice, Bitch, Bustle, Broadly, The Establishment, and elsewhere. She is passionate about pit bull rescue, cursed objects, and designer sunglasses.