We’ve finally finished sorting through your e-mail nominations for this year’s Worst Company In America tournament. Now we’re set to reveal the 32 businesses vying for the title. [More]
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Keep Those Worst Company In America Nominations Coming
By 2.23.11
Since announcing that we’re now accepting nominations for Worst Company In America, we’ve received thousands of suggestions encompassing everything from individual etsy sellers to global conglomerates to fictional entities. And if you haven’t yet taken the opportunity to put in your two cents (figuratively speaking; we don’t charge a fee), you still have a few days left. [More]
Man Uses Minivan To Show How Much He Hates Bank Of America
By 2.18.11
While everyone else needs to e-mail us their nominations for this year’s Worst Company In America tournament, we’re pretty sure this California man’s minivan counts as one vote for Bank of America. [More]
Submit Your Nominations For Worst Company In America 2011!
By 2.17.11
As you probably guessed from last night’s not-so-subtle tease, it’s time to start building the brackets for the Worst Company In America tournament. [More]
14 Reasons Why Countrywide Is In The Worst Company Hall Of Fame
By 10.15.10
As the news breaks that Angelo R. Mozilo, the curiously orange former CEO of Countrywide Financial, has agreed to pay millions of dollars in fines, we decided to take a walk down Countrywide’s Memory Lane… which happens to be a street littered with abandoned and foreclosed houses. [More]
Bastard Ex-Countrywide CEO Must Pay $67.5 Million
By 10.15.10
Angelo R. Mozilo, former CEO of Countrywide Financial Corp, winner of the 2008 Worst Company In America award, and oddly orange-tinted bastard, has settled with the Security and Exchange Commission and will to pay fines and forfeit ill-gotten gains in excess of $67 million. [More]
Worst Company In America Trophy Mailed To Comcast
By 10.5.10
We are super-duper late in mailing out Comcast’s Worst Company In America trophy so we decided to spice it up with a disco lightshow for the award and a nice congratulatory letter. [More]
The Best Person At Comcast Just Quit
By 7.16.10
Frank Eliason, the best person who works at Comcast, has decided to leave Kabletown, USA in order to return to banking, where he’ll again be working in a social media capacity. We wish him the best, as he has always done his best to help our readers, despite the massive amount of abuse we have lovingly heaped upon him. [More]
Ben Popken On NPR This Morning Re: Comcast NBC Merger
By 7.13.10
I was on NPR this morning chiming in about the Comcast NBC merger that’s hurtling like a freight train through Washington (spoiler alert: not a fan). Here’s the clip. At the end, the reporter says that when he asked Comcast about their coming first in our Worst Company in America contest, they dismissed the entire affair as a “cheap stunt.” We take offense. A trophy that cost $30 and had to be air-mailed from Japan is not cheap. [More]
FTC: Countrywide Mowed Your Lawn, Marked Up The Cost And Called It A Fee
By 6.7.10
The FTC says that Countrywide (now part of Bank of America) has agreed to pay $108 million to settle charges that the company “collected excessive fees from cash-strapped borrowers were were struggling to keep their homes.” So, what exactly did they do? Well apparently, while acting as a mortgage servicer, the company actually hired vendors to service properties after the homeowners had fallen behind on their mortgages, marked up the cost of the services (lawn mowing and property inspections, for example,) and then passed the cost along as fees. Doesn’t sound legal? It wasn’t. [More]
Comcast: Sorry We Never Installed Your Cable Correctly
By 5.6.10
Reader K. wants to let us know that our tips for writing an effective complaint letter helped her solve her parents battle with Comcast. For months they’d been complaining about faulty internet service — only to be told they had the best signal they could get. Turns out, however, that their cable had never been installed properly. Whoops! [More]
Verizon Rubs Comcast's Face In Worst Company Win
By 4.26.10
For anyone who thought that mammoth megacorporations behaved anything like adults, they should just check out the Twitter account for Verizon, who saw fit tonight to have a little fun at the expense of Worst Company In America winner Comcast. [More]
Comcast: We Don't Want To Be Worst Company In America Again
By 4.26.10
After two years as a bridesmaid in Consumerist’s Worst Company In America tournament, it was finally the cable company’s time to walk down the aisle when it was handed the WCIA crown this morning. And now that Comcast has tasted victory, it’s not asking for seconds. [More]
Congratulations Comcast; You're The Worst Company In America!
By 4.26.10
After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010. [More]
Worst Company Final Deathmatch: Ticketmaster VS Comcast
By 4.23.10
Hide your children and gird your loins, because just like The Highlander, there can be only one. From the depths of the stinking swamps of mergepocalypse, come our two ignoble contenders. First, the dread pirate Comcast, known throughout the land for gobbling up all companies that are foolish enough to sail through its treacherous waters. Second, Ticketmaster, Lord of Tickets, Duke of fees, Master of… tickets. After forming an unholy alliance with LiveNation, Lord Ticketmaster has united the forces of darkness in a quest to force all people of this good land to pay $2.50 for the use of their own printers. [More]
Worst Company In America Overtime Rules
By 4.22.10
Bank of America and Ticketmaster have been within 10 votes of one another for like, 24 hours now, which is just unprecedented in the history of this contest. As of this post, they are exactly tied. So here’s what we’re going to do. At midnight in the central time zone, we are going to close the poll. [More]
Worst Company In America Final Four: Comcast VS Cash4Gold
By 4.22.10
Well, well, well, what do we have here? It’s our nation’s largest cable company and harbinger of mergepocalypse doom, Comcast, VS a certain little company from Florida. [More]
Worst Company In America Final Four: Bank Of America VS. Ticketmaster
By 4.21.10
Two of last year’s WCIA Final Four return to square off as Bank of America, who thumped Time Warner Cable in the Elite 8, goes up against Ticketmaster, fresh off its victory over Anthem BCBS. [More]
