Lousy Companies

01. Circuit City - I purchased a Toshiba Satellite laptop there last year. Inexplicably (word of the week!) the screen begins to darken on the left side. I also purchased a $200, two year extended warranty from Circuit City along with this laptop. After sending it to be repaired, it is returned with absolutely no work done on it, along with an invoice saying that it would not be worth it for them to fix it. Visting a brick & mortar location yielded nothing, and I eventually got a $200 check in the mail as a refund for the extended warranty I purchased. Why are they selling warranties that they do not honor? Why aren't they doing anything about the funky laptop they sold me? Never shopping there again.

02. Toshiba - Maker of aforementioned funky laptop. I was almost going to buy a Toshiba HDTV before this happened. Never buying any of their products again, and I'll keep watching DVDs before I support the HD-DVD format. Burn in hell.

03. ATI - My 9800 Pro lasted less than 20 months. Nice product. Meanwhile, I've got nVidia cards that have lasted more than four years. In the event that I actually stick with PC gaming for a while longer, I'll be buying an nVidia card. Guilty by association: not buying any AMD products. Good thing Intel has shaped up with the conroe chips.

04. Comcast - Fortunately, I escaped them some time ago. Verizon. FiOS. Victory.

05. Valve - Delays. Steam. Audio bug crashes. More delays. Steam. I love HL2, but man, these guys do not like to make anyone's life easy.