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Boycotting Brands

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In a time where "cancel culture" seems to be prevalent, do you believe in boycotting certain brands and stores for their actions?

Have you ever boycotted a brand?
 
Eh, depends on how you define boycotting. I don't buy Apple products because I don't like Apple as a company, but I wouldn't call that a boycott, per se, I'd say a boycott is stopping buying from someone...so...yes-ish? No-ish?
 
Absolutely. Speaking with your wallet and spreading the word for others to do the same speaks the language of those who own this capitalistic world we live in. The less money we give to businesses, the more they'll hurt.
 
I boycott brands which test on animals or are cruel in other ways to them and I also boycott companies who have no regard for human rights such as Amazon who treat their workers like dirt.
 
I don't care enough about anything to boycott a brand. I eat at Chick-fil-a and they hate gay people. IDGAF :P
 
I believe if a company has a bad business practice then yes, they deserve to be cancelled. Game Stop is a good example.
How GameStop is still in business is beyond me. Awful company!
Bad company, yes.
But tell that to the hedge funders who got screwed over because of GameStopGate....

The GameStop stock trading episode that began in January 2021 has been unprecedented in some ways, especially in the ability of market participants to organize collective action openly yet anonymously. In other ways, it’s been an unsurprising repetition of past experience. Financial markets are imperfect, they display many frictions, and the imperfect alignment of interests is a perpetual dilemma in designing both contracts and public policy.

The GameStop episode goes to the heart of many regulatory issues in finance. It provoked a flurry of reactions from politicians and regulators, including statements of concern, proposals for new laws and regulations, and investigations of potential wrongdoing, all suffused with expressions of hostility directed at “market manipulation” and speculators, characterizing the financial markets as a “rigged game” or “casino.”

Contrary to the cliché of an unregulated and predatory financial system, the actions of the participants and the events themselves shine a light on a remarkably dense array of regulations already in place. But much of today’s regulation makes markets function worse, not better, for investors. Much of the reactive call for investigations into wrongdoing and additional regulation was noteworthy for its vagueness. And much of the uproar has reflected a long‐standing combination of paternalism, bad advice, and confidence in experts that misleads investors. The GameStop episode has also been just one manifestation among many of financial market buoyancy sustained by low interest rates.
 
What did they do?
They have a history of awful tactics towards their customers and their staff, their margins are failing them, they sell open games as brand new, they give you pennies for games they turn around and sell for massive profits, they force their employees to manipulate customers into upsales, etc. There's a long, long list of issues when it comes to GameStop

 
They have a history of awful tactics towards their customers and their staff, their margins are failing them, they sell open games as brand new, they give you pennies for games they turn around and sell for massive profits, they force their employees to manipulate customers into upsales, etc. There's a long, long list of issues when it comes to GameStop



Wow I didn't know about any of that. What a shady place.
 
lol, good, but let's try not to buy so frequently, ok? That's a little too much money you're forking over to them!

;)
Actually it was only like $10 for the game. It was Ratchet and Clank, it was on sale for some reason. :P

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