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Bad Business

Like everyone else I've had my fair-share of bad experiences with bad businesses - Everything from price gouging, poor service and Wokeism* to outright theft and deceit. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for the vast majority of businesses out there that are working hard to do the right thing - it's just that small percentage of "bad apples" that have taken advantage of, ignored, or cheated me (and my friends and family) that I plan on listing here. But, for what purpose? Admittedly mostly to "vent" a bit but, also, to help others avoid having to deal with the same unscrupulous businesses that could do harm to them and others.

Business Proselytizing is Not Acceptable:

By the middle of 2023 it was becoming clear that most Americans had had enough of the LGBTQ+ community not only proselytizing to adults, but targeting children as well. Companies like Apple, Ben & Jerry's, Bud Light, Disney, Target, and a couple dozen others were starting to experience customer backlash for their woke messaging and political propaganda. Many of these companies lost millions (and even billions) of dollars in market capitalization yet continued pushing "pride" and other sexual agendas onto the general public. Some of these companies (but not all) started to wake up and returned to their core mission of making a profit and increasing shareholder wealth. Although a step in the right direction we still have a long way to go before the LGBTQ+ mob stops assaulting us and our children with their business messaging. - Roger J. Wendell
Golden, Colorado - Summer Solstice, 2023

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Monopolies
Plural form of monopoly

noun
Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service.
A company, group, or individual having exclusive control over a commercial activity.
A commodity or service so controlled.

Charter, Comcast, Cox, and others:

First a disclaimer: Other than generic voice and DSL from the telephone company (whose name has changed three times since I became a subscriber here in Colorado in the 70s...) I have never subscribed to Charter, Cox, Comcast or any other cable service. Nevertheless, I've had a lot of exposure with these three and other cable companies through my various jobs, friends, neighbors, and family around the country. In a nutshell, our country's biggest cable providers are bloated, overpriced monopolies that are relatively immune to government regulation, competition, or customer complaints. In my neighborhood, just west of Denver, Comcast sales people persist in coming to my door to convince me that their huge prices, lousy service, and commercial saturated programming is something I can't live without - reminding me that I'm just one of two or three holdouts on my block who don't subscribe. When I ask them to guarantee me a low subscription price they just laugh. I'm not a sheep, I don't care how many of my neighbors subscribe to Comcast's miserable service - I'm not signing-up!   As for Cox, I gained direct (and extensive) experience with them while helping my elderly mother in Omaha. Their cable and telephone fees were astronomical!   As for Charter, although I never experienced their "service" I've known a couple of friends and acquaintances working there as engineers. The internal happenings are illustrative of a company flush with cash, beuracracy, and inefficiencies.   Back to Comcast for some history, they were established in 1963, and is now a global media and technology company. Comcast operates two main businesses; the first, and what most people associate the company with, is Comcast Cable (known as "Xfinity") - which is the the largest video, high-speed Internet and phone provider for residential and business use in our country. Xfinity has a combined residential and business customer base of about 50 million users (as of this entry in 2018). Under the Comcast name there is also the venture capital firm Comcast Ventures and the sports and entertainment company Comcast-Spectacor. Comcast's other primary business is NBCUniversal, only one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies that manages the namesake television network and movie production company, as well as specialty channels like USA Network, Syfy, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo, and more. In summary, Comcast is a huge, expensive, inefficient, monopoly!   - Roger J. Wendell July 2018

Parcom   The domain name for the Colorado QRP Club, www.CQC.org, was stolen in March, 2015 - well over six months before it was due to be renewed. The Colorado QRP Club had owned this domain name since 1998 when they first created it before anyone else. The webhost and registrar, at the time of the theft was Parcom.net - wowrack was the parent company, at that time, and neither provided any assistance in protecting the club's domain name or recovering it. The Colorado QRP Club filed complaints with ICANN, the Washington State Attorney General's office (where the registrar was located at the time of the theft), and the various webhosting companies and registrars associated with the club's domain name since it was stolen (it appears to have been sold a few times since then...). From what the club learned, at this point, is that the club would need a court order, and the assistance of an attorney, to recover the domain name. Please contact the club's webmaster, or any of the club's officers, if you can help. Until then, the club will continue using www.coloradoQRPclub.org until they're able to recover its domain name. Thank you, everyone, for your assistance and support!   - WBØJNR, CQC Webmaster and Treasurer

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