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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Bring it Guest17....
We are ALL waiting
Please, regale me with your insightful explanations!
Explain to everyone why 37% SBA loan failure rate - doesn't mean anything
Explain to everyone why falsely posting franchises as JOBS is OK, despite FTC regs
Explain to everyone terminated why/how the NPA is real or even legal
Explain to everyone the justification DMs use when they LIE to prospective new DBRs
Please, sir, EXPLAIN..., because apparently I just don't understand
After all, isn't FAMILY supposed to help?
Richard, what are they afraid of?
Nobody says anything about your posts!
When You post the same facts I post- they say nothing
I'm not scared of you! LOL
bring it on baby. we are supposed to be on the same team but no one else wants to play. lol
Is it TRUE???
Someone told me that when Jerry Marks walks into a court room Tool Companies start sweating!
Someone also told me that Jerry gets results!
Someone told me that Jerry is a great ATTORNEY!
jason , i responded to you on face book but i never got a response. im not sure why you were inquiring about the tool boxes i had for sale. you are a dm and dont really have a use for them. go fish somewheres else. i really dont have time for it.
MATCOsux - LOL
I heard if you say "Jerry Marks" three times, out loud-
somewhere a Snap On executive needs a fresh pair of shorts
FYI - Lady Matco called out Tom Gilmore's lies
and his video went away
Lady Matco called out Matco's screw up on a Customer's
$10,000 toolbox and Customer was visited TODAY by DM Doug Herrsink
Resolution - customer received another "promise"
BUT this time the promise was IN PERSON
I WILL post if/when customer gets right!
WOW Debbie (sorry about the caps) you kind of pissed me off.
You call me a Coward, say I have no "stones".......Todd A calls me a dog.....
I commented on a "Franchies Opportunity" post and you freaked the f##k out......must have touched home. You showed a nasty set of fangs.
Or maybe, just maybe you relalized you should have done more research before you signed your docs. The cool thing about a franchise is that you......wait for it, wait for it.......YOU BUY IT, and if you are not smart enough to do the research you deserve everything you "get". I stand by my quote "Wow you would have to be a complete and total idiot to sign up for that route"
To you 2 or 3 that question my "stones" I have never made it a mystery who I am, my phone number is on my distributor site at http://www.matcotools.com/carydevitt. give me a call (not after 7pm mst I have babies) I talk a shit load better than I type. oh and if you want to hook up with the real Matco Distributors Association next month we will be at Caesars, no where near the Flamingo....its a dive anyway.
So long Prez, bad azz or waht ever you proclaim yourself to be.
Cary Devitt
cary
so you make a rude comment then try to make it right then try to make it rude again. you must have been trained by some of the people at matco.
lie, deceit, bs, whatever it takes.
this will not be over until the proper people take responsibility for the damage done and correct it to include silencing some of the riff raff that continues to mouth off here.
it is amazing at how many simple minded people are in this world who cant see what is going on around them even when confronted with all the proof.
talk about living in a sheltered world.
get off of debbies ass for awhile and get on mine. i dont have a job so i have alot of time. i may not be as much fun but i will enjoy it. bring it on.
Cary, oh you and Guest 17 have certainly told me!
Put me in my place!
What was I thinking?
Should never have been out of the kitchen in the first place.
Maybe I was having an emotional PMS moment when I freaked out...........
I now see, what an Idiot! Oh MY, to honestly believe the route presented by my DM Doug Heersink and RM Bryan Maira would work, what an idiot!
How stupid to not see through obvious sales pitch.
As you so eloquently stated, I must have been an Idiot to believe what I was told.
OH how can i thank you and Guest 17 for showing me the truth??
HOWEVER; I believe YOU missed the POINT..................
You call me an Idiot for taking the route,
translation: I am an idiot for believing the LIES
BOTTOM LINE - YOU ARE SAYING MATCO LIED..................
.. I am the idiot for believing the lie - as you say, but,
THE POINT IS YOU ARE STATING MATCO LIED
MATCO LIED - ACCORDING TO YOU
A fortune 250 company sinks so low and can only recruit new distributors with LIES
What is the bigger infraction?
A fortune 250 Company using Recruiting Videos laced with lies, sending big wigs from Stow into people's homes armed with more LIES
OR the well intention-ed, person willing to invest in a franchise and naive enough to actual BELIEVE the Fortune 250 Company wants to be a partner in their success?
I'll let the courts decide................