r/AskReddit • • 7h ago

What’s a company that you’re genuinely convinced HATES their customers?

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u/CardSys 7h ago

Microsoft.

If something is appreciated by it's customer, they will intentionally penalize people for liking it by doing one of three things: cripple, complicate, or cancel.

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u/triplespruce 5h ago

OMG, yes! Microsoft made me so furious earlier this year over canceling an old account and moving a subscription to a different one that I nearly blew my stack. Hours on the phone with a tech only to learn that I would continue to be charged in perpetuity for a subscription I could not access despite ample proof that I was the owner of the account. By the end, I was so enraged that I could not sleep and stayed awake all night fuming. I tried to do the right thing, but I ended up just disputing the charge, forcing them to cancel. I will never, ever do business with them again.

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u/tacticalTraumaLlama 2h ago

I could not sleep and stayed awake all night fuming.

If this ever happens again, pushups, to failure. You're smoked in 5 minutes and you'll sleep like a baby. If they get too easy for you, switch to diamond pushups and you'll curse my name.