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.

Matco Tools Franchise Posts & Discussions

MATCO TOOLS Franchise Complaints  June 8, 2011 (1000+
comments)

MATCO TOOLS Franchise Defenders Speak Out December 7,
2011 (Comments defending Matco invited)

MATCO TOOLS Distributor Franchise December 7, 2011 (Overview with
links)

MATCO TOOLS Franchise Report Alleges Distributor Churning  November 29,
2011

MATCO TOOLS 2011 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) & Other
Resources
  November 22, 2011

MATCO TOOLS Class Action Lawsuit, “Secret” Sales Projections  November
22, 2011

FRANCHISE LAWSUIT Alleges Matco Tools Scam, TD Bank Fraud  November 15,
2011

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  • i have seen through the years so many times how people try to make themselves look big by tring to make other people look small. it takes less effort that way but it doesnt make them any bigger except in their own little world with their own little friends.anyone can justify anything that they want in their own mind. reality is what it is and you cant change that.
    you can paint the leopard black and call it a panther but it is still a leopard.
    if 10 people tell you that something stinks and you dont smel it then maybe its time for you to pull your head out of your rectum so you can smell what everyone else smells. just saying.

  • Richard,
    Its funny when someone doesnt agree with what you guys are saying all of the sudden we dont belong here???
    What a joke.
    A dm is there for support, unfortunately some need daily support, If that is the case you need to work in an office not as your own boss.

  • matco#1
    my dm has never helped me do a damn thing. thats what im saying . there is no team here. what part of that do you not understand.
    i have credits that were supposed to be given 10 months ago, never happened , him and rm, mike ramey want to claim stupid even when i forward emails of it to both. if you have never been there then dont call the ones that have a liar.

  • Richard - If that's so I would be on phone to customer service for credit. They can issue you a credit. I hardly ever ask my dm for credit, I just call distributor service and they take care of it. And can we please keep the conversation professional without the name calling, grouping nicknames etc on this joyous holiday weekend. All people want to know are opinions with facts presented here to support them. Not opinions without facts.

  • Merry Christmas all!
    Do you think, in the spirit of
    the holiday we could have
    a "cease fire" for the
    weekend?

  • jay, you too are wrong. I also had a DM that was worthless. Yes, Customer service can and will help in 'most' cases, but NOT all cases. Who does tool box warranty? Customer service? yea, they'll send slides and casters but that is about it.

    I've lost more toolbox customers because of my DM than I care to mention. In fact after a few years with this DM, I didn't care to sell anymore toolboxes because of warranty issues, and the inability to make it right when needed.

    Your all correct, there are some good DM's I had one, but I also had a bad one. So I put it at 50% of ALL DM's suck.

  • Tom wrote - "Junior- You just showed the “God complex”.

    Junior - No you just did Tom. I'm challenging an idea, not a person.

    Tom - "YES Glenn DID say that about “who ya gonna listen to”. I WAS there, you were NOT. Do NOT tell me what I heard."

    Junior - I did not at all tell you what you heard, read it again, I said I don't believe he said it. It's an opinion.

    Tom this is a tough world and it appears to me you are having trouble with adult talk. A little sensative when your ideas or claims are challenged. Get used to it, it's how the world works.

  • Tom wrote - "WAsn’t arguing integrity. I just said they HAD integrity. Wake up!"

    Junior - Let me remind you of what you wrote. "To me that right there says INTEGRITY! Something DM’s lack!” This is what's called an arguement, a claim, a firm statement, an insult.

  • Tom, if Bill is the RM you say spoke to you in that fashion I will call you an out right liar. If it wasn't Bill then I simply find it hard to believe.

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