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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Career Builder Matco ad:
MY personal favorite....
“The training is phenomenal – technical and very customer driven."
Matco gave me the Tools to Change My Future.
My mobile store. My business. APPLY today!
Phenomenal? Technical? Customer driven?
HUH?
That statement alone is an amazing LIE!
MY? Business?? NOT even close!
Buy/Lease This truck
Sell to These shops
Don't sell to anyone without permission
Pay Matco for a website YOU DON'T control
Advertise for Matco - without your permission in calendars YOU pay for
Drive Here
GO when Matco TELLS you to go
Use and pay for Matco software
BUY Matco's overpriced under-powered spyware loaded computer
Accept whatever LIES Matco tells you
DON'T have an independent thought or question
DON'T dare talk to other distributors
DONT buy outside Matco
Debbie Solko
Matco Tools Distributors Association President
Battered women are isolated from friends and repeatedly
told everything is THEIR fault.....
Matco DBRs are isolated from other DBRs (Tom Willis told you
not to join the Distributor Association)
Matco DBRs are told failure is all their fault
I see a parallel.....
A little counseling perhaps???
Matco admitting YOU have a problem is the first step
to recovery!
Debbie Solko
Matco Tools Distributors Association President
Everything you do when you work for matco is under matco's control, whether you like it or not.
They drive your business for you and when you fail, you are the only one to blame.Matco dosent want any part when you go under. They run and hide and are nowhere to be found at that point.
DISTRICT MANAGER- one who controls the district and runs you. A manager is classified as your boss. When you run your own business, you should be your own boss, your not.
THE BACK OF THE MATCO TRUCKS STATE' DRIVE YOUR OWN BUSINESS",
ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER LIE.
TOMMY CHEUNG
Matco Distributor Association Member
Career Builder as of this morning ;
515 jobs availible, wow they have filled alot of positions.B.S
Back of Matco Truck should read "Puppets Wanted" come let us control you too!
Todd A. Peterson
(Falsely Terminated) Matco Distributor Association Member
TODAY'S CAREER BUILDER SITE IS SHOWING T0DAY
515 ACTIVE JOBS
747 ACTIVE JOBS DOWN 232 FROM 1/17/12
1072 job postings DOWN 325 FROM 1/11/12
***********BY THE ACTIVE JOBS POSTED ON CAREER BUILDER*********
557 ACTIVE JOBS HAVE BEEN FILLED SINCE 1/11/12
!!!!! 557 ACTIVE JOBS **FILLED** IN ONLY 8 SHORT DAYS !!!!
Dear Matco,
May I please see some documentation of these Active Job Openings?? Because, “The FTC Prohibits Franchise Ads Masquerading as Job Ads "
Thank you,
Debbie Solko
Matco Tools Distributor Association President
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**MATCO PAGE TODAY STILL SHOWS 0** CAREER BUILDER TODAY 14
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*WOW* MICHIGAN GOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW DISTRIBUTORS?
Since I know Matco is watching!
Today is my Birthday and I was wondering if anyone in Stow, OH knew about a DM CONVENTION which took place in LAS VEGAS, NEVADA in which my route was used as a training tool in a SOUTHWEST REGIONAL meeting by that REGIONAL MANAGER (Tim Novak), who threatened a guys Franchise months before, on "How to use SpyWare (Google Map,MapQuest and MDBS) to steal customers from DISTRIBUTOR'S.
Please!!! Tell me I am just making SHIT UP! That I have no PROOF!
Come to think of it I heard that Jason Neil was a DM at this time too!
Jason! Can you confirm that you had DM training at a DM Convention in Las Vegas where GOOGLE MAP and MDBS were used to FRAUD a FRANCHISEE out of customers just for the sake of establishing a route enabling BONUSES to be paid in that REGION?
God FORBID this actually took place. Would make the company look like their Ad campaigns were FALSE when Tim Gilmore says "Unmatched SUPPORT". More like "Unmatched Hostile Takeovers".
***********BY THE ACTIVE JOBS POSTED ON CAREER BUILDER*********
557 ACTIVE JOBS HAVE BEEN FILLED SINCE 1/11/12
!!!!! 557 ACTIVE JOBS **FILLED** IN ONLY 8 SHORT DAYS !!!!
could this BE possible, or maybe just another LIE
the Tim Gilmore recruiting video WAS a LIE -
Matco pulled the video from You Tube!
Matco removed the faulty statistics
The FTC Prohibits Franchise Ads Masquerading as Job Ads - would they risk another LIE, would they risk violating FTC laws?
Debbie Solko
Matco Tools Distributor Association President
************HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODD****************
a POST TODAY on
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matco-Tools-Distributor-Association/293379297348041?skip_nax_wizard=true
Louis...
i started to look at a dealership untill i talked to dearlers in sc,nc,pa,nj and last ny and all but one told me do not do it you will fail under the contract that is offered or forced on you i am so happy that i looked deep into all of it before it was to late. To anyone looking at doing this i will tell you thing use the dealer phone list that is given to you and call dealers to see what they have to say about how there doing and ask about the support that corporate poeple said would be there for you.........what i found is once you get your truck and tools your on your own and thats why i did not move forward into the matco family......this is only my opinion i could be wrong??? dig deep before you leap!!!!
THE MESSAGE IS GETTING OUT, LIVES AND SAVINGS WON'T BE DESTROYED
Thank you,
Debbie Solko
Matco Tools Distributor Association President