MATCO TOOLS Franchise Complaints: Have you had any dealings with MATCO Tools or the MATCO Tools franchise? Please share a comment about your experience – good or bad – below, as well as advice for those considering investing in a MATCO Tools franchise.
Also read: FRANCHISE LAWSUIT Alleges Matco Tools Scam, TD Bank Fraud
We received the following franchise warning about the MATCO TOOLS franchise opportunity. According to commenter “TOMMY CHEUNG” :
“STAY AWAY FROM MATCO TOOLS. THEY WILL SELL YOU A BILL OF GOODS,WHICH IS NO GOOD.
“RUMOR HAS IT ,MATCO MAKES MORE MONEY SIGNING NEW FRANCHISES THAN THEY DO TAKING CARE OF THEIR CURRENT ONES.
“DARYL PRITCHETT AND MIKE RAMEY WORK TOGETHER TO SIGN YOU UP AND THEN KICK YOU TO THE CURB. I AM WORKING ON A LAWSUIT AGAINST MATCO, HOPING TO TURN IT INTO A CLASS ACTION SUIT. YOU MAY CONTACT JERRY MARKS AT MARKS AND KLEIN LAW FIRM AT [redacted], IF YOU ARE INTERESTED.
“I INVESTED ALOT OF MONEY IN MATCO AND AFTER 3.5 YEARS THEY SHUT ME DOWN. WHEN THE ECONOMY SLOWED IN 2008,THEY PUT ME OUT OF BUSINESS.
“I ALSO SPOKE TO A PREVIOUS EXECUTIVE, WHO CALLED ME, AND STATED THATS THE WAY MATCO DOES BUSINESS. STAY AWAY FROM MATCO TOOLS AND RUN LIKE HELL WHEN YOU SEE THEM. I REPEAT DO NOT BUY OR INVEST IN MATCO TOOLS…”
Marks & Klein is a legitimate franchise law firm that often represents franchisees in lawsuits against their franchisors, but we haven’t verified with them whether a lawsuit against Matco Tools is in the works or not.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? IS MATCO TOOLS A GOOD FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY, A FAIR FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY OR A FRANCHISE SCAM?
If you’ve had dealings with Matco Tools, please share a comment below.
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If I had to guess who you are I might think you are a RM who is going to be in deep POOH when he has to take the stand at trial and tell the truth about the fraud he performed against my franchise. The fraudulent survey you had my DM perform to back up your story to Matco about what a failure of a distributor I was to corporate. Yes Mr. Novak time will tell. My day in court will come. Oh did I mention theat fraud is punishable with prison time in Arkansas. You just got to have money, a good attorney and the truth on your side. I got the tri fecta.
How do you people make any money being on this all day and all night ????
Are you on this while your at work if so I hope you get fired. You wonder why you failed or are failing as a tool distributor because you didn't work you stay up all night on the internet. Instead of selling tools you whine all day about how Matco is out to get you to bad your to foolish to see you got yourself. Matco might do things that piss you off but not working will only cause more problems. In court Matco will have your daily start and stop times and they will have records of you on the internet at 2 am just how do you sell tools when you are tired from all that crying.
Tommy said: "Kevin, I am trying to screw matco, the same way you screw your customers. Go sell some tools made from overseas, not made in the U.S.A. LOL"
So I screw my customers? How so? Is that how I've stayed in business for 22 years? And aparently you think Matco is doing something wrong by marketing tools from other countries? Find me a tool company that doesn't do that, or even one that does it less than Matco. If ANY mobile tool company decided to sell only U.S. made products, they would be out of business within a year. Similar products to many of the tools we have made in other countries are not even produced here. You can thank the unions for that. And if I'm screwing my customers by selling them these products, then so is your sidekick Debbie, and so were YOU.
On a side note, I've changed my mind on the viability of this website, and I'll now thank you for starting it. This is the best site for potential distributors to view. The idiots will fall for your foolish rants, along with the rest of the WMD, and will stay away from Matco. The intelligent ones will see right through all your idiocy, and see exactly what kind of people fail in this business. It's a great situation for Matco, since they really don't need any more of those kind of distributors. So please, keep posting. The more you post, the clearer it becomes.
So how are we going to make Matco pay for the things they have done to our businesses?
I have no attorney as of yet but I got money.
Honestly I have looked and talked to lots of attorneys but noone wants to take on Matco where I live.
I talked to Kassoff out of New Jersey but his retainer agreement looked like a Matco contract.
Relentless- I'm from IL and used Jerry Marks. Use him! You wil NOT be dissappointed! Best choice I ever made!
yes call Jerry, he will be the best move for you.Just google snaponwives and see what he did to snapon.
Kevin you are right on target. If anyone believes what Tommy says, we definately do not want them as fellow distributors.
Relentless, not a RM, never have been, never will be. Did work under novak as a DM, and a DBR. I appreciate the promotion to RM, but I think I will pass.
I can tell you I know most everyone that is on here, and nobody is an employee of MATCO, except for the one guy that got on a while back and said he was a DM and mentioned the Chrysler program...that's your employee of MATCO, and that isn't me, Tommy can tell you I already tried to change my name and got yelled at by ADMIN.
Funny thing is I never posted the ad about Tommy in Craigslist. It was pointed out to me, very funny, but wrong guy. Funny how it was assumed I did it just because I found it.
Also funny that when somethings posted about you on craigslist it's no longer cool.
Guest wrote - "Of course Junior thinks Glenn is a stand-up guy. He thinks of himself as a stand-up guy, yet look at how low he stooped to slander Tommy."
Junior - Jeez Guest, get a grip. I copied the ad not posted it. And slander? Are you kidding me? You don't consider what you just said about Glenn or me slander? You are above such an act aren't you?