Boycotting

[Aqualung]

I think you'll find that people who boycott products/services/stores/whatever, don't do it so that they will shut the business down, they do it so that they know that they are not personally contributing to what they see as the problem. I don't agree with animal testing, so I do my best not to buy cosmetics etc. that have been tested on animals. I may not be reducing the actual number of animals being tested on, but I know at least that I am not contributing to it. Can you understand that? It's not that difficult a philosophy, really...

Woah, why all the personal attacks on my intelligence because I think differently than you?
Perhaps I've just never found anything bad enough that I would boycott it just to know that I wasn't contributing.

 

[Bastet]

Woah, why all the personal attacks on my intelligence because I think differently than you?
Perhaps I've just never found anything bad enough that I would boycott it just to know that I wasn't contributing.

Bit touchy, aren't we? I wasn't attacking your intelligence, I was trying to explain a concept...and I wasn't explaining it just for your benefit, but for the benefit of anyone else who just didn't "get" it - as you yourself professed.

 

[jonny]

I am boycotting Burger King because they towed my friend's car and left us stranded in the middle of the night. It wasn't the fact that the car got towed (they had the right), but it was the way we were treated by the manager in the store that made me mad. I haven't gone back for years.

I took a consumer behavior class and it was very interesting to read about what people would do to get back at businesses. Boycotting is harmless compared to some of the stories I collected in a study we did.

 

[Lintu]

I "girlcott" companies that give money to anti-choice groups. For instance, I won't buy Domino's Pizza (I prefer our local group anyway, but that's not the point) because their owner or CEO or someone gives to Operation Rescue. I boycott McDonald's because their commercials annoy me and the food isn't any good anyway.

 

[Bastet]

I boycott McDonald's because their commercials annoy me and the food isn't any good anyway.

:biglaugh: It's a bit hard for me to boycott Macca's, since I work there. They do have some really annoying ads though. We just started these Cajun Nuggets, and the ad has some guy drinking the water out of a snow globe because he's desperate for a drink after eating them. Sometimes you just want to shake the ad exec and say "What were you thinking?!?" :bonk:

 

[Aqualung]

:biglaugh: It's a bit hard for me to boycott Macca's, since I work there. They do have some really annoying ads though. We just started these Cajun Nuggets, and the ad has some guy drinking the water out of a snow globe because he's desperate for a drink after eating them. Sometimes you just want to shake the ad exec and say "What were you thinking?!?" :bonk:

I loved that comercial!! That made me want to eat those.

 

[Bastet]

I loved that comercial!! That made me want to eat those.

Then I guess it worked lol. I'm addicted to them, I'll admit it...

 

[KirbyFan101]

I don't generally boycott things because it's usually pointless. For example, I never got vegetarians who didn't eat meat because it harmed animals. Did they think that because one person decided not to buy meat that it would somehow change the number of cows slaughtered, or change anything? Most things just have too big of a consumer base to warrant a boycott. Now if I knew that something I didn't like was being boycotted by millions of people, I would join in, but as it is, most things aren't worth it. The problem usually isn't that big in the first place (or there would probably be a lot more people boycotting) and one person can't change a big company.

You realise that if everyone had the "I will never make a difference anyway" attitude nothing in this world would ever change to the benefit of the consumer, environment, working class (wo)man, etc.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I am generally against boycotting. If you really hate something enough to tell people to stay away from it, it will end be free advertisment for what you are trying to ruin. Emenim got to be a very popular rapper because people were boycotting his music, and more people heard about his music, and more people bought his music.

 

[KirbyFan101]

Emenim got to be a very popular rapper because people were boycotting his music, and more people heard about his music, and more people bought his music.

Eminem's success is largely due to his emotionally charged, dynamic music. It was certainly new and refreshing, and it used to have alot of meaning.

Of course, today hes just a wuss rapping for Kids, but back in the day when he released MMLP, I was blown away...

 

[Malus 12:9]

I try to boycott Microsoft. I knwo some of you probably don't have issues with them and "never had a problem" but I sure as hell know how much they have screwed me over.

Their support is awful (try finding a contact email address for certain problems). Their
Internet Browser stinks and they release patches/updates that attackers have moved on from months ago. Their belief that all Users are idiots scares me. They are the worst when it cpmes to internet security. Their product is basically: Restart/update download/restart/download update *sigh*...

 

[michel]

Renaldo, are you sure that it is because of the product that you boycot them ? - not a bit of 'Bill Gates bashing' here?

 

[Malus 12:9]

Perhaps it is both, MICH. You know, not insulting mcDonalds, but check this out.

Microsoft - McDonalds

Both have a big M
Both have a clown promoting them (Gates/Ronald)
Hamburgler looks like a pc hacker who always tries to oppose Ronald
Microsoft got hit by the Mcdonalds Icon virus (where all your icons changed to things of McDonalds)
...the list goes on

Yo MICH

 

[Crystallas]

I may avoid a buisness for a short period, but I don't boycott anyone for long. Im a forgiving person, and understand how human the people who represent them are. They make mistakes like everyone, and nobody is perfect. If a company was truelly bad, their figures would show it. Someone gets fired, and who knows, the next person in line may be the best thing to ever happen in their respected industries.

You may boycott a name, but its the people behind it that make the drive, and not the people that you see inside the stores or the people who run those people. Its someone higher that couldnt make a solution good enough for you. Everyone else is just part of the domino effect. Boss gets mad when customer service credits peoples accounts, that person is in fear of getting fired. The store wont put up support for the Salvation Army Santa, well its not the baggers fault.
Boycotting is old-school. Pettitioning works a bit better. Public Protests work rather well. Lawsuits work the best. I hate living in a time where people call a lawyer about every nit pick problem, but I equally hate when people just a book by the cover.

 

[Malus 12:9]

You may boycott a name, but its the people behind it that make the drive,

That's the scary thing about MS

Pettitioning works a bit better. Public Protests work rather well. Lawsuits work the best.

Or Windows flaw exploiters

 

[Lintu]

I think that boycotting can be beneficial. If I hadn't heard other women talking about boycotting Domino's, for instance, I wouldn't have known about the owner's donations. In the long run, will it do anything to the company? Probably not. But it makes me feel a little bit better not to support someone who I believe acts unethically.