HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING Complaints: Faulty Equipment & Poor Service
September 30, 2012
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING complaints about AVT vending machines, equipment and service complaints are appearing from frustrated HUMAN Healthy Vending operators and franchise owners.
(UnhappyFranchisee.Com) If you have HUMAN Healthy Vending complaints or problems with its vendor AVT (formerly Automated Vending Technologies), please share your experience or concerns with an anonymous comment below, or email ADMIN at UnhappyFranchisee[at]gmail.com.
If you are a representative of HUMAN Healthy Vending or AVT, please feel free to post a rebuttal, clarification, apology or other message regarding HUMAN Healthy Vending complaints in the comment section below, or by sending us an email.
“Once they get your money… you will never hear from them again” – HUMAN Healthy Vending operator
Healthy vending can be hazardous to the operator’s health.
One HUMAN Healthy Vending operator’s stress level is surging due to malfunctioning machines and the alleged unwillingness by either HUMAN Healthy Vending or vendor AVT to to fix the problem.
A HUMAN operator wrote*:
HUMAN healthy vending is full of shit.
They have a second company (AVT) who takes care of the parts/machine warranty and they are full of even more shit!!!
We made the mistake of purchasing HUMAN vending machines. Total waste of money!!! One of the machines completely stopped working.
Right now AVT is refusing to honor their contract even though we’re still in our warranty period. They find bogus excuses not to fix the machines, or to provide us any service…
They are full of shit. Once they get your money, and they deliver the machines you will never hear a note from them again.
* Some details have been omitted from this note to keep the operator’s identity confidential
While we don’t know if it’s true, a HUMAN Healthy Vending operator claims that they have evidence that HUMAN Healthy Vending is knowingly selling machines that have a manufacturer’s defect, but they are withholding that information from their operators and franchise owners and shipping them anyway.
HUMAN Healthy Vending Operator Smells a Rat
Here’s an outrageous story shared by a HUMAN Healthy Vending operator:
One lady purchased a machine.
When the machine was delivered to its location, rats came out when the door was opened.
The Owner of the facility refused to house the machine.
HUMAN refused to send her a new machine, and she still has the machine in her garage.
On a positive note, the rats appeared to be exceedingly healthy, with no signs of obesity or other indications of unhealthy snacking habits.
Also read:
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING: Are HUMAN Operators Making HUGE Profits?
h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING: A Scam?
HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?
HEALTHY VENDING Franchise Companies Hide Unhealthy Pasts
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Letter to Sean Kelly, CEO, Chief Humanist
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING: CEO Kelly Responds to UnhappyFranchisee.Com
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING Defends VP Bill Wotochek
ARE YOU A HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING OPERATOR OR FRANCHISE OWNER?
DO YOU HAVE A HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING COMPLAINT?
PLEASE SHARE A COMMENT – POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE – BELOW.
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING: Are HUMAN Operators Making HUGE Profits?
September 28, 2012
HUMAN Healthy Vending promises its operators and franchisees huge profits. But with a whopping price of $12,000 per machine and another $1200 if they want it placed, how much profit is the average HUMAN Healthy Vending franchisee or operator making?
(UnhappyFranchisee.com) Is this new healthy vending franchise craze for real, or are companies like HUMAN Healthy Vending selling a dream that will soon evaporate, taking a lot of good people’s hard-earned savings, retirements, college funds and peace of mind with it?
HUMAN Healthy Vending sells the dream of being part of hip, socially conscious company that’s making money and saving the world, BUT…
How many kids and adults really buying healthy snacks at premium prices from vending machines?
How many businesses are willing to pay big bucks to advertise on a little LED screen atop a vending machine in a local middle school?
We are inviting HUMAN Healthy Vending operators and franchisees (or others in-the-know) to anonymously share their experiences, their average vends per day, and how they’ve fared selling advertising, in the comment section below.
Is the HUMAN Healthy Vending “VENDING Profit-Potential Matrix” Accurate?
One of the HUMAN Healthy Vending marketing pieces posted online is a titled The Healthy Vending Handbook The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Launching and Growing Your Own Healthy Vending Business.
(If you click on that link, beware of unsupported and probably illegal earnings claims)
The Guide contains this “VENDING Profit Potential Matrix.”
HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchisees & Operators: Is the VENDING Profit-Potential Matrix a good representation of your Vends/Day and profit per month? Where on the chart do you fall? Please share a comment below.
Is the HUMAN Healthy Vending “ADVERTISING Profit-Potential Matrix” Accurate?
The HUMAN Healthy Vending Guide promotes an exciting revenue-boosting program called Adventising.
The brochure reads “The best thing about our Advendtising™ program is that it provides our vending operators with an additional revenue stream but doesn’t require you to do much extra work. Just operate your healthy vending machines as usual, keep your LCD screens properly connected so that they’re always displaying ads, and we’ll send you quarterly commission checks equal to 25% of the ad revenue your machines bring-in…
“Initial research suggests that the addition of digital LCD screens with streaming video content to vending machines increases sales at the machine by approximately 20%. What does this mean for you? If your average vend price is $2.00, and your machines vend on-average 20 products per day, 5 days per week, then you’d generate $2080 more revenue per year per machine. If you operate your machines for 5 years and earn, on-average, a 40% profit margin per sale, you’d make $4160 more profit (from product sales alone) with an Advendtising™ system over this 5 year period than without one.”
HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchisees & Operators: Is the ADVERTISING Profit Potential Matrix a good representation of your “Adventising” revenue and profit per month? Where does your business fall on the Matrix? Please share a comment below.
Are HUMAN Healthy Vending Operators “Making Huge Profits?” and Feeling Good?
The HUMAN Healthy Vending guide is chock-full of references to making huge profits in a recession-proof business:
RECESSION PROOF Business!
One of the best things about running your own healthy vending business is that it’s highly profitable even in a down economy.
Putting aside that HUMAN’s claims of profitability and revenue may amount to legally prohibited earnings claims, we put the question to HUMAN Healthy Operators and franchisees:
ARE YOU MAKING HUGE PROFITS WITH HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING?
ARE YOU FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOUR INVESTMENT?
Please share an anonymous comment below!
Also read:
h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING: A Scam?
HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?
HEALTHY VENDING Franchise Companies Hide Unhealthy Pasts
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Letter to Sean Kelly, CEO, Chief Humanist
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING: CEO Kelly Responds to UnhappyFranchisee.Com
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING Defends VP Bill Wotochek
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING Defends VP Bill Wotochek
September 12, 2012
HUMAN Healthy Vending CEO and “Chief Humanist” Sean Kelly took us up on our offer to provide a rebuttal to our post questioning the accuracy and honesty of the HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD).
(See HUMAN Healthy Vending: Letter to Sean Kelly, CEO, Chief Humanist)
HUMAN’s Chief Humanist responded here: HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING: CEO Kelly Responds to UnhappyFranchisee.Com
Normally, we would simply post Mr. Kelly’s rebuttal without a response.
However, there are some factual errors in Mr. Kelly’s response letter to UnhappyFranchisee.Com that bear correction.
More importantly, in defending HUMAN VP Bill Wotochek, Chief Humanist Kelly fails to address our main point, which is that franchise companies don’t get to pick and choose which of the required information to provide in their disclosure documents, and which to leave out.
So, Kelly defends Bill Wotochek, but fails to defend HUMAN Healthy Vending’s apparent efforts to hide Wotochek’s past from prospective franchisees.
Bill Wotochek “has our full confidence and we fully support him.” – CEO Kelly
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “We have recently become aware of a posting on “UnhappyFranchisee.Com” which refers to our company, HUMAN Healthy Vending (“HUMAN”), but is primarily about Revive Franchising, LLC (“Revive”), Sito Marketing, LLC (“Sito”) and Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP (“Dalbey”).
Any claim or insinuation that HUMAN has any relationship whatsoever to any of these companies is ABSOLUTELY FALSE.”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: We did not make any claim or insinuation that HUMAN has any relationship with those companies.
The claim that we are making is that it appears that HUMAN Healthy Vending has (either inadvertently or vertantly) left out key, required information regarding HUMAN Senior Vice President Bill Wotochek’s professional history.
Item 2 of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA”) guidelines for Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs) requires a franchisor to “disclose by name and position directors . . . and any other individual who will have management responsibility relating to the sale or operation of franchises offered by [the FDD].” For each of these individuals, Item 2 of the NASAA guidelines also requires the franchisor to disclose “his or her principal positions and employers during the past five years, including each position’s starting date, ending date, and location.”
As we pointed out in our earlier post (HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?), the HUMAN Franchise Disclosure Document fails to list that “From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Wotochek worked at the Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP, as Senior Director of Business Development… In January, 2009, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to Vice President of Expansion for Sito Marketing, LLC. In October 2010, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to President of Revive Franchising, LLC.” (Source: Revive Franchising, LLC FDD, 2011)
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “It is true that Bill Wotochek currently works for HUMAN. It is also true that Bill has worked for a number of companies in the past with great success.”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: Mr. Kelly, feel free to tout Bill Wotochek’s past successes in the HUMAN marketing brochure. However, the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) is not a marketing piece. It’s a required legal disclosure document, and you are required to honestly disclose the good, the bad and the ugly. You aren’t allowed to leave out things that might make closing a sale more difficult.
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “One of the companies he worked for was Sito which became Revive.”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: Wrong. Sito did not “become” Revive. There are three separate corporate entities: Rylo Products, LLC (which supposedly “manufactured” the mints), Sito Marketing, LLC (which was the entity that sold Revive as a “business opportunity”) and Revive Franchising, LLC ( formed March 26, 2009 to sell Revive Energy Mints franchises).
Sito Marketing, LLC still exists, as evidenced by their agreement to a recent permanent injunction (REVIVE ENERGY MINTS Vending Franchise Hit With Permanent Injunction)
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “Prior to this he briefly worked at Dalbey. His work at those companies was limited to sales.”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: The Revive FDD states “From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Wotochek worked at the Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP, as Senior Director of Business Development…” According to the Federal Trade Commission and the Colorado Attorney General, Dalbey’s business promoting an infomercial scam called “Winning in the Cash Flow Business” during the time Mr. Wotochek Senior Director of Business Development.
It’s not much comfort if Mr. Wotochek’s “work” was “limited to sales,” as these controversies all involved sales practices.
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “As a HUMAN team member, Bill has our full confidence and we fully support him.”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: Wonderful. Please fully support your prospective franchisee’s right to receive full disclosure as mandated by the FTC Franchise Rule as well.
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “Out of an excess of caution, we are reviewing the HUMAN FDD to ensure that we are in full compliance with our registration requirements, which I also have full confidence in.”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: Seriously? You characterize compliance with state and federally mandated requirements as being “exceedingly cautious”?
“I applaud Bill” – HUMAN CEO on former Revive Franchising President Bill Wotochek
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “I, and all decent people, feel great sympathy for those harmed by the deplorable judgment and business decisions made exclusively by the owners of Sito/Revive AFTER Bill resigned from the organization.
I applaud Bill for having the foresight to leave Sito/Revive when the company’s new management and ownership began pursuing a path with which he did not agree (Chris Robertson and Mike Kelty became the new owners of Revive in early 2011).”
UnhappyFranchisee.Com writes: When did Mr. Wotochek resign as President of Revive Franchising, LLC? July, 2011? If he has convinced you that all the objectionable and questionable practices started after July, 2011 then Bill Wotochek IS a great salesman.
[Pictured, left, Bill Wotochek, Senior Vice President, HUMAN Healthy Vending]
If Bill Wotochek would like to explain his reasons for resigning as President, if he would like to share what business direction he didn’t agree with or, in fact, ANYTHING in regard to what happened, we’d love to post it and Revive Energy Mints distributors and franchisees would love to hear it.
Most of them tell us that they never heard a WORD from Bill Wotochek after the checks they gave to his company cleared. Even after he took over as President, they never heard a word.
All they know is that the company abandoned them without the courtesy of an email, without the support they paid for, without a way to reorder product. And now Revive Franchising, LLC and Sito Marketing LLC got hit with a permanent injunction, everything Bill Wotochek sold the Revive franchisees is worthless.
HUMAN CEO Kelly wrote: “I would strongly encourage all of the readers out there to learn more about HUMAN and the noble mission we are so passionately dedicated to, and invite all to reach out to us directly with any questions or concerns regarding any point raised in this posting.”
We would strongly encourage HUMAN CEO Sean Kelly to demonstrate that his noble mission includes honesty and integrity by openly admitting that he made a mistake in not including a full and honest disclosure in the HUMAN FDD.
We would suggest that Chief Humanist Kelly reach out to anyone who signed the faulty Franchise Disclosure Document, and offer them rescission of the franchise agreement and return of any and all fees and expenses they paid… if they elect to accept rescission.
And we suggest that Human Healthy Vending immediately notify each of the states where they have registered their franchise opportunity and file an amended registration with a Franchise Disclosure Document that includes the full and accurate biographical text for Mr. Wotochek included above.
And we humbly suggest that they copy us on their submission to these state agencies so we know that we won’t have to squeal on them.
Whether he was to blame or not, the ultimate outcome of Bill Wotochek’s aggressive sales efforts seems to be dozens, if not hundreds, of lost investments, broken dreams and shattered lives. Whether Chief Humanist Kelly thinks that prospective franchisees deserve to know that or not, the Federal Trade Commission says they do.
Also read:
REVIVE ENERGY MINTS Vending Scam Information UPDATED
REVIVE ENERGY MINTS Telemarketing Script
HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING, BILL WOTOCHEK, OR REVIVE ENERGY MINTS? PLEASE SHARE A COMMENT BELOW.
HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING: CEO Kelly Responds to UnhappyFranchisee.Com
September 11, 2012
HUMAN Healthy Vending CEO Sean Kelly Responds to UnhappyFranchisee.Com.
Readers of UnhappyFranchisee.Com know that we have written extensively about the hard-sell tactics and subsequent abandonment of their franchisees and distributors of Sito Marketing, LLC and Revive Franchising, LLC and Revive Energy Mints.
Recently, we learned that Bill Wotochek, former Vice President of Expansion for Sito Marketing, LLC and former President of Revive Franchising, LLC is now Senior Vice President for HUMAN Healthy Vending.
We were shocked when we read the HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) and saw that Wotochek’s bio did not include his position as VP at Sito Marketing, LLC, did not disclose that he was President at Revive Franchising, LLC or that he had previously worked for a company the FTC exposed as an infomercial scam.
This revelation prompted two UnhappyFranchisee.com posts:
HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Letter to Sean Kelly, CEO, Chief Humanist
We invited HUMAN Healthy Vending CEO & “Chief Humanist” Sean Kelly to provide a clarification, rebuttal or explanation.
Here is Mr. Kelly’s response.
September 10, 2012
To Whom It May Concern:
We have recently become aware of a posting on “UnhappyFranchisee.Com” which refers to our company, HUMAN Healthy Vending (“HUMAN”), but is primarily about Revive Franchising, LLC (“Revive”), Sito Marketing, LLC (“Sito”) and Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP (“Dalbey”).
Any claim or insinuation that HUMAN has any relationship whatsoever to any of these companies is ABSOLUTELY FALSE. I have set forth below the true facts so that people can honestly weigh the charges made in the post against the actual facts and draw their own conclusions.
[Pictured, left, HUMAN CEO & "Chief Humanist" Sean Kelly. Photo: HUMAN Healthy Vending]
It is true that Bill Wotochek currently works for HUMAN. It is also true that Bill has worked for a number of companies in the past with great success. One of the companies he worked for was Sito which became Revive. Prior to this he briefly worked at Dalbey. His work at those companies was limited to sales. As a HUMAN team member, Bill has our full confidence and we fully support him.
Out of an excess of caution, we are reviewing the HUMAN FDD to ensure that we are in full compliance with our registration requirements, which I also have full confidence in.
I, and all decent people, feel great sympathy for those harmed by the deplorable judgment and business decisions made exclusively by the owners of Sito/Revive AFTER Bill resigned from the organization. I applaud Bill for having the foresight to leave Sito/Revive when the company’s new management and ownership began pursuing a path with which he did not agree (Chris Robertson and Mike Kelty became the new owners of Revive in early 2011).
I would strongly encourage all of the readers out there to learn more about HUMAN and the noble mission we are so passionately dedicated to, and invite all to reach out to us directly with any questions or concerns regarding any point raised in this posting.
Very truly yours,
Sean Kelly
CEO and Chief Humanist
HUMAN Healthy Vending
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE REVIVE ENERGY MINTS, SITO MARKETING, BILL WOTOCHEK OR HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING?
PLEASE SHARE A COMMENT BELOW.
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Letter to Sean Kelly, CEO, Chief Humanist
September 4, 2012
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Letter to Sean Kelly, CEO, Chief Humanist from UnhappyFranchisee.com regarding the honesty of the company’s franchise disclosure document.
HUMAN Healthy Vending touts itself as a proponent of “social entrepreneurship.”
A key component of social entrepreneurship is transparency and honesty.
A HUMAN Healthy Vending blog posts suggests: “Employ Transparency and Authenticity. It is extremely important to be open and honest with everything you do in your business… There shouldn’t be any guessing games. Be real with those you interact with; people appreciate honesty and realness…”
UnhappyFranchisee.com recently gave HUMAN Healthy Vending CEO Sean Kelly (not to be confused with franchise writer Sean Kelly) a chance to demonstrate HUMAN’s commitment to Transparency and Authenticity.
Here’s the letter we emailed to Mr. Kelly, and copied to his partner Andy Mackensen and Senior Vice President Bill Wotocheck, former President of Revive Franchising, LLC.
Sean Kelly
CEO, Chief Humanist
HUMAN Healthy Vending
Mr. Kelly:
As you know, the FTC Franchise Rule requires franchise sellers to provide to prospective purchasers with a Franchise Disclosure Document. In Item 2 of the FDD The franchisor must include employment history for the last five years for directors, principal officers, general partners, trustees and other executives who will have management responsibility in connection with the sale or operation of the franchise.
We at UnhappyFranchisee.com have reviewed the 2012 Human Healthy Vending FDD that you have submitted to state registration agencies along with your sworn, notarized statement that everything in the FDD was true and accurate.
We compared the professional history you included in your 2012 FDD for your VP of Sales Bill Wotochek with his professional history included in the Revive Franchising 2011 FDD and found some striking differences.
Revive Franchising FDD: “Mr. Wotochek worked as a consultant for Y-Development, LLC, from 2004-2005, in Denver, Colorado. In 2006, Mr. Wotochek worked in sales and business development for Key Financial, Inc. and General Steel corporation in Denver, Colorado. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Wotochek worked at the Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP, as Senior Director of Business Development. In September, 2008, Mr. Wotochek was hired to work in business development with Sito Marketing, LLC, our affiliate, in Denver. In January, 2009, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to Vice President of Expansion for Sito Marketing, LLC. In October 2010, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to President of Revive Franchising, LLC.”
Human Healthy Vending FDD: “Mr. Wotochek has been Our Vice President of Sales since We were formed in November 2011. He has served as Vice President of Sales of NWBL since July 2011. He was a sales representative for Sito Marketing, Inc. from January 2008 through July 2011. Mr. Wotochek was the owner of Wotochek, LLC from August 2006 through December 2007.”
It is our opinion that the background of Mr. Wotochek that appears in the HUMAN Healthy Vending is deliberately inaccurate and untruthful, and is written in such a way as to hide Mr. Wotochek’s true involvement with two controversial companies. The HUMAN FDD fails to disclose that Mr. Wotochek was in fact a VP at Sito Marketing LLC (not Inc.) and that he was President of Revive Franchising LLC – companies that abandoned their distributors and franchisees – left them unable to restock their machines or receive the “unlimited support” Mr. Wotochek’s sales team allegedly promised – and doomed them to failure without a word of explanation.
Additionally, HUMAN Healthy Vending has failed to disclose Mr. Wotochek’s involvement with the Dalbey company that was sued by the FTC and the Colorado AG for fraud.
Mr. Kelly, we have exercised our legal right to shared our opinions about these matters in two recent posts on our website, which you are invited to read and respond to here:
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/human-healthy-vending-revive-scam/
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/healthy-vending-franchise-companies-hide-unhealthy-pasts/
We also invite you to peruse our posts on Revive Energy Mints: http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/revive-energy-mints-vending-scam/
We invite opposing opinions, as well as clarifications, corrections and rebuttals from individuals and companies we discuss on our site. You and your associates are invited to share via participation in the comments section of each post, by providing a statement or rebuttal for us to publish, or both. Feel free to invite your distributors, franchisees, employees and associates to share comments about your company in our comment section as well.
On a final note, I recently read a HUMAN blog post on social entrepreneurship that read: “Employ Transparency and Authenticity. It is extremely important to be open and honest with everything you do in your business… There shouldn’t be any guessing games. Be real with those you interact with; people appreciate honesty and realness…”
We at UnhappyFranchisee.com invite you to practice what you preach, and be authentic and transparent in your response to the serious concerns raised in our posts. We hope that you’ll agree with the Federal Trade Commission and state franchise regulators that prospective franchisees should be provided with honest and accurate disclosures so that they can make informed investment decisions that impact their families and finances.
Your prompt and constructive response is appreciated.
ADMIN
UnhappyFranchisee.Com
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH HUMAN HEALTHY VENDING, BILL WOTOCHEK, OR REVIVE ENERGY MINTS? PLEASE SHARE AN OPINION OR INSIGHT BELOW.
HEALTHY VENDING Franchise Companies Hide Unhealthy Pasts
September 3, 2012
Healthy vending franchise companies seem to be going to great lengths to hide the past activities of their top management and shareholders.
And for good reason.
HUMAN Healthy Vending, it seems, would rather you didn’t know that its Vice President of Sales Bill Wotochek is former President of Revive Franchising, LLC, a company that abandoned its franchise owners and left their businesses to rot, wither and die, and was Senior Director of Business Development of a company charged with fraud by the Federal Trade Commission.
YoNaturals, it seems, would rather you didn’t know that it is owned by convicted spammer Mark Trotter and is associated with convicted Australian vending and phone card scammer Nicholas “Nick” Yates.
Fresh Healthy Vending, it seems, went to great lengths to make everyone think it was owned solely by businessman Jolly Backer, but its preferred stock is actually owned by the same company that owns YoNaturals, run by the aforementioned & infamous Mark Trotter and Nick Yates.
Bill Wotochek, Vice President of Sales, HUMAN Healthy Vending
In a recent post (HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?), we posted excerpts from the HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) that HUMAN is providing to prospective franchisees and is providing to franchise registration and filing states.
In the sworn and signed documents, HUMAN Healthy Vending fails to disclose its Vice President of Sales Bill Wotochek’s key role in the Revive Energy Mints travesty by saying that Mr. Wotochek only “was a sales representative for Sito Marketing, Inc. from January 2008 through July 2011.”
Sito Marketing LLC (not Inc.) was an affiliated company that marketed the Revive Energy Mints distributor opportunity.
Revive Franchising LLC sold the Revive Energy Mints franchise opportunity.
Bill Wotochek was certainly much more than a “sales representative”; he was Vice President of Sito Marketing and President of Revive Franchising LLC.
The Revive Franchising 2011 Franchise Disclosure Document stated:
- In September, 2008, Mr. Wotochek was hired to work in business development with Sito Marketing, LLC, our affiliate, in Denver.
- In January, 2009, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to Vice President of Expansion for Sito Marketing, LLC.
- In October 2010, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to President of Revive Franchising, LLC.
Right around the time Mr. Wotochek left Revive Franchising, LLC, in summer, 2011, Revive distributors could no longer reorder products, nor receive critical support they had paid for.
Read the sad accounts of Revive’s hard-sell tactics and subsequent abandonment here: Revive Energy Mints Posts.
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Not so Squeaky Clean?
HUMAN Healthy Vending, which claims to be an altruistic company, also fails to disclose that from 2007 to 2008, Mr. Wotochek worked at the Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP, as Senior Director of Business Development.
Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP ran an infomercial scam called “Winning in the Cash Flow Business,” that misled consumers to believe they could get rich quick by dealing seller-financed promissory notes or cash flow notes.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, only 0.8 percent of consumer who purchased less than $500 of the Dalbey Education Institute’s products ever sold a promissory note, and only 2.8 percent of consumers who paid $500 or more for Dalbey Education Institute products ever sold a promissory note.
After lawsuits and injunctions from the Colorado Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission, Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP ceased operation and declared bankruptcy.
HUMAN Healthy Vending Response Invited
UnhappyFranchisee.Com invites HUMAN Healthy Vending to provide clarification, corrections or a rebuttal to our opinion and conjecture that they are intentionally misrepresenting Mr. Wotochek’s background.
Coming soon:
HEALTHY VENDING Franchise Companies Hide Unhealthy Pasts Part 2 (YoNaturals)
HEALTHY VENDING Franchise Companies Hide Unhealthy Pasts Part 3 (Fresh Healthy Vending)
Also Read:
REVIVE ENERGY MINTS Vending Scam Information UPDATED
REVIVE ENERGY MINTS Vending Franchise: What Happened?
h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING: A Scam?
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE HEALTHY VENDING FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITIES OR COMPANIES? SHARE A COMMENT BELOW.
HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?
September 2, 2012
HUMAN Healthy Vending: the Next Revive Energy Mints Scam?
HUMAN Healthy Vending claims it’s both helping entrepreneurs start their own lucrative vending businesses and helping to fight American obesity.
However, if HUMAN Healthy Vending turns out like the Revive Energy Mints vending franchise, the only thing American consumers will be losing is their life savings, credit ratings, and peace of mind.
Through a sales program allegedly run by William Wotochek, hundreds of Revive Energy Mints vending opportunities were sold to individuals who invested $12,000 to $25,000 or more.
In or around July or August, 2011, Revive Energy Mints disconnected its phone lines, abandoned its offices and disappeared without a single word of explanation.
Revive franchisees were left with no way to reorder product, with garages and basements filled with worthless machines, and without the “lifetime support” promised by Chierotti, Russo, Wotochek and others.
Many investors, several of whom are physically disabled, were left penniless. Savings gone, one Revive franchisee battles Lou Gehrig’s disease with the anguish of possibly leaving his loved ones saddled with debt. Some declared bankruptcy. One couple had their truck repossessed from their driveway at night, while they slept.
The Revive Energy Mints victims never received a single word of explanation or apology from Bill Wotochek or anyone of the others who persuaded them to put their trust in Revive franchising.
HUMAN Healthy Vending: Red Flags are Flying
The similarities between HUMAN Healthy Vending and Revive Energy Mints are frightening:
Both vending franchises were founded by two clean-cut 20-somethings with polished stories and inspired business “visions.”
HUMAN Healthy Vending was founded by Sean Kelly (not to be confused with the franchise writer Sean Kelly) and Andy Mackensen.
Revive Energy Mints was founded by Logan Chierotti & Ryan Russo.
Both vending opportunities started as business opportunities and were converted to franchise opportunities.
Both vending opportunities have or had slick, colorful brands and professed to be combining the benefits of vending with innovative, healthier options.
And, perhaps most strikingly, both opportunities had/have the same hard-sell artist closing their franchise deals: Bill Wotochek.
William Wotochek: President of Revive Franchising, LLC
While the other similarities might be superficial, the fact that franchisee and distributor recruitment efforts for both companies are spearheaded by Bill Wotochek is anything but.
In our interviews with Revive Energy Mints victims, Bill Wotochek’s name came up repeatedly as the man instrumental in convincing them to invest in the doomed vending scheme.
The 2011 Revive Energy Mints Franchise Disclosure Document lists William “Bill” Wotochek as having a leading role in both Sito Marketing and Revive Franchising:
President: William Wotochek
Mr. Wotochek worked as a consultant for Y-Development, LLC, from 2004-2005, in Denver, Colorado. In 2006, Mr. Wotochek worked in sales and business development for Key Financial, Inc. and General Steel corporation in Denver, Colorado. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Wotochek worked at the Dalbey Educational Institute, LLLP, as Senior Director of Business Development. In September, 2008, Mr. Wotochek was hired to work in business development with Sito Marketing, LLC, our affiliate, in Denver. In January, 2009, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to Vice President of Expansion for Sito Marketing, LLC. In October 2010, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to President of Revive Franchising, LLC.
Bill Wotochek: Vice President of Sales, HUMAN Healthy Vending LLC
The 2012 HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchise Disclosure Document lists Bill Wotochek as Vice President of Sales since it was founded in November, 2011 and Vice President of Sales of its predecessor NWBL since July 2011, right around the time Sito Marketing and Revive Energy Mints Franchising LLC left its franchisees high and dry.
The current HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) reads:
Vice President of Sales: Bill Wotochek
Mr. Wotochek has been Our Vice President of Sales since We were formed in November 2011. He has served as Vice President of Sales of NWBL since July 2011. He was a sales representative for Sito Marketing, Inc. from January 2008 through July 2011. Mr. Wotochek was the owner of Wotochek, LLC from august 2006 through December 2007.
HUMAN Healthy Vending’s FDD Appears to Contain False and Misleading Statements
The HUMAN Healthy Vending Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) is a FTC mandated disclosure document that is registered with the State of California and State of Minnesota is required to be provided to each prospective HUMAN Healthy Vending franchise owner.
HUMAN Healthy Vending FDDs are sent to registration states with a sworn, signed and notarized statement from HUMAN CEO Sean Kelly that all statements and representations in the FDD are factual and truthful.
Here’s Human CEO Sean Kelly’s sworn statement from a 2012 franchise registration application:
However, the HUMAN Healthy Vending 2012 FDD appears to intentionally misrepresent the role Mr. Wotochek played in the Sito Marketing LLC and Revive Franchising.
The HUMAN Healthy Vending FDD downplays Mr. Wotochek’s role in the vending franchise disaster by stating only “He was a sales representative for Sito Marketing, Inc. from January 2008 through July 2011.”
Why does HUMAN Healthy Vending not disclose that Bill Wotochek was, in fact, Vice President of Expansion for Sito Marketing, LLC and that in October 2010, Mr. Wotochek was promoted to President of Revive Franchising, LLC?
What else isn’t HUMAN Healthy Vending telling the registration state franchise examiners and its prospective franchise owners?
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h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING: A Scam?
October 11, 2011
h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING franchise is growing fast.
Is h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING a great new franchise opportunity or the newest vending scam?
h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING is definitely going out of its way to promote a friendly, altruistic company image. According to its website:
“What is h.u.m.a.n. Healthy Vending?
“We’re helping unite man and nutrition (h.u.m.a.n.) by placing premium healthy vending automated retail machines across the globe and giving 10% of proceeds back to charitable causes that fight obesity and malnutrition.”
Vending Times reports that h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING is definitely closing some deals According to the article “H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending Cites Record Growth,”:
SANTA MONICA, CA — H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending said it achieved record growth from June through August, adding 31 new operator partners worldwide and selling 219 machines.
The Santa Monica, CA-based healthy vending franchisor, whose name is an acronym for "helping unite mankind and nutrition," says its network of vendors now serves more than 750 locations throughout North America and overseas. Its goal is to reach 1,000 locations by early 2012.
The company says its machines are stocked exclusively with foods, snacks and beverages that meet better-for-you nutritional criteria established by a team of nutritionists, registered dietitians and public health specialists. High-definition LCD screens that run streaming videos provide consumers with dynamic nutrition-related information at the point of sale.
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE h.u.m.a.n HEALTHY VENDING FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY? IS IT LEGIT OR IS h.u.m.a.n A HEALTHY VENDING SCAM?
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