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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"You started by slamming my wife."
I never "slammed" your wife. Honest. I have a gay lover, remember?
guest2: Shouldn't you be over at the Friends of Matco site https://unhappyfranchisee.mystagingwebsite.com/matco-tools-franchise-defenders-speak-out/ helping MATCO#1 stoke Lenny's dream of owning his own business and setting him up for the ride of his life?
Be sure to give Lenny a Marks & Klein air freshner for his truck. He'll be needing the phone number from it soon.
MATCO#1: "Tommy he is going to destroy your sight."
Is this a reference to The Who's Tommy? Pinball wizard? Tommy, the deaf dumb & blind kid sure played mean pinball?
Or did you mean "site," as in "website"? Rock reference or blatant misspelling? Unclear.
But thanks for taking time from avoiding Lenny's question about what he can expect to make. Later, after he's lost it all, you can always deny having encouraged him... and for leaving out the part about what happens to his entire investment if he falls below his purchase minimum.
So guest someone must have posted this for you then.....
■Guest on December 8th, 2011 11:34 am
Remember back when guest3 (now MATCO#1) wrote “do you have a sight for happy franchisee?”
Well, they were given their very own page to sing the praises of the Matco Tools franchise to their hearts content: https://unhappyfranchisee.mystagingwebsite.com/matco-tools-franchise-defenders-speak-out/
The result? Fewer than 10 positive comments from a couple of commenters who say nothing more than “I’m successful with Matco cuz I’m so great” or “Thanks to Matco my wife can sit home and watch Jerry Springer and soap operas all day instead of working”
OOPS YOU ARE WRONG
All right lap dogs How about this Question?
You been a Distributor for less than a year. A tech comes in with a Matco PSA. He is behind an payments. You do very little business with him on a truck account because you want to make him understand you are going to stand behind Matco. CASH ONLY CUSTOMER. You have about $1400 between 5 guys in the shop you are collecting about 250 per week on truck accounts with no PSA's. 3 had bad credit. Customer has a shiny new Snap-On box and when you ask him where the Matco box is he says its at his house. (Don't know it to be fact but I heard Snap-On picked up his Matco box. You call customer service repo department and tell them what is going on. They say repo the Snap-On box. So you talk to the shop owner he says take it. You go get a shop release form and in the mean time he calls Snap-On. You come back and he refuses to let you have it. So you call Matco to inform them of Shop Owners decision. They tell you there is no UCC for a Snap-On box and that I should let shop owner know that I can call the police and the police will help me retrieve it. So, I told him word for word what Matco told me to say and he says "Get the fuck off my property!" "I don't ever want you on my property again.
I call Matco and ask them if they want me to call police and they tell me "Just back out and let him cool down." I tried to talk to him later and we had a civil conversation and understood each other but I was still not allowed to call on that shop by shop owner.
I asked Matco what about my accounts $1400 they said they would talk with management. I guess management decided against because when I called back again they said they would get back with me. They never did.
My Question to the Lap Dogs:
What would you do if this was you?
How pissed would you be losing $1400 because you tried to be a good business partner and help collect an account for Matco?
guest2: I think Gary slammed your wife.
Gary, did you slam Mrs. guest2?
guest2 I just wanted to let you know that there is a line outside your house and people are slamming her. You bet go home and take care of business since your not taking of her or your customers right now.
Is that a legitamate statement Duh!?
Come on just answer one of the two at least.
You see just give them a question they don't want to answer and they won't say a thing.
Admin. I like the one sided approach to correction. I guess it is ol for th anti to use personal attacks but not the pro. It is ok for anti to derail conversation with name calling and personal attacks but not pro. I get it.