The box we teased you about contained a glistening golden poo statue. That’s right, the award for Worst Company In America is here. That can mean only one thing… On Monday we host our final deathmatch between Comcast and Countrywide Home Loans. It’s going to be a brutal bloodbath full of chills and spills. Only one will walk away champion, and then we will mail them their justly deserved prize. Stay tuned to Consumerist.com for all the hot crappy-company-on-crappy-company action.
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@ogman: But a dead guy can beat John Ashcroft for Senate in Missouri….
Wal*Mart should be the winner. Comcast is freakin cable people. That is more important than Wally Mart destroying your country? Countrywide is evil, but small potatoes compared to Wal Mart. People are easily swayed and too concerned about their TV.
Two very deserving companies. May the worst win.
Oddly enough, at one time I owned stock in Comcast and stock in Bank of America which later bought Countrywide. I dumped both due to the many customer disservice stories I read here. I figured if they treat their customers that poorly, sooner or later that would reflect poorly on the profitability of the company and thus their stock price.
@JustaConsumer:
Correct JaC, but using that logic, aren’t things like the entire U.S. economy (Countrywide) and people’s health (HMOs, insurance companies, etc) more important than tasteless underwear or a company that tries to keep its prices lower for everyone by trying to deter shoplifting? Even the instance about Walmart trying to “take away” the woman’s baby, while undoubtedly a horrific experience, was most likely done in a good faith attempt to make sure that the very same thing didn’t happen to someone else. IMHO, of the top five Walmart stories, the only one that truly resonated with any sort of possible corruption was the chemical-burn-sandals. I agree that Walmart *is* evil, but looking at both the actual harm they might have caused any particular individual and the effect they had on the country as a whole, I just don’t think that they measure up to what Countrywide did.
I hate Comcast, but I have no choice but to use them. I’m sorry, but the triple play lured me in.
Countrywide or Comcast? That’s a tougher decision than deciding if Jeffery Dahmer or John Wayne Gacey deserves the “Extreme Makeover: Mass Murder Home Edition” trophy!
My vote goes to Comcast.
Although Countrywide was a major player in the mortgage meltdown, hundreds of smaller companies, thousands of shady mortgage brokers and the George W. Cunt (oops, I mean Bush) administration’s let freedom of shady business practices ring policy made the final results as inevitable as what would happen if Amy Winehouse was given free admission to an all-you-can-smoke crack buffet.
Comcast, however, still has a free pass to rape customers in any market it serves with offers including:
* “BLAZINGLY FAST INTERNET (so long as you don’t visit P2P sites or download too much shit in which case we’ll throttle your bandwith down to nothing)!”
* “BUSINESS CLASS HIGH-SPEED INTERNET (that’ll make you wish you still had AOL dial-up as a faster alternative)!”
* “MORE HIGH-DEF PROGRAMMING THAN SATELLITE (so long as we’re comparing it to the 12-foot circa 1985 dish in Billy Bob’s yard; not DirecTV or Dish Network)!”
* “CRYSTAL CLEAR PHONE SERVICE (that’s the same technology and features as Vonage for almost twice the price)!”
Bottom line: Comcast is a no-brainer winner.
@BaysideWrestling: I live in a blue state, problem solved.