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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Todd the difference is matcoman can turn his tho..
No Todd, you are the ones looking at my pics online, I think the receiver is not gay , it's the giver, or chaser in this case.
Matco#1,
Glove and beanie sales are down this year all the snow went to the state to your east, but winter isn't over. That's okay 3 A/C units sold in Dec you just never know
Are you serious, I can't sell an a/c unit to save my life, even here, too many dealerships, goodyears, firestones, brakes plus, that buy from corperate, not enough independants.
I think I have sold about 40 beanies in the last week or so, when it gets below 50, feels like Wyoming.
Todd likes to brag about having inventory, but on several occasions people said they would buy it, he dont want to sell.
It don't matter if he is faking it or not I will DUMP my Matco stuff off first at half off just to get guys on the truck and have about $40,000 in tools from the same suppiers as MATCO. I will start with Matcos air tools which 90% are from Ingersollrand. I will completely disassemble a Matco 3/8 and an I/R 3/8 and show them that part by part they are IDENTICAL. Same thing with a 1/2 in and 3/4. Then I will start on air ratchets. By the time I get through discrediting your prices you will be in a Wal-Mart shopping cart selling tools to your customers. Ask BOB DEMERS if I know how to sell tools I outlasted him and his plus truck ROBERT GARZA. I also oulasted CHARLIE PRICE. This is two years after Tim Novak poured fraud on my franchise.
...and who would care??
Todd come down, what are you waiting for, I love my competiton to sell below cost.
Todd, I stock both, I tell my customers IR makes our gun, some people like to have IR some like it to say MATCO. See I am honest with my customers, no secrets, if a tool is great, I tell them, if it sucks, i tell them that too.
I do go to walmart a lot, when I do my giveaways I go to walmart....Hey here is one that Novak told me once...."if walmart doesn't have it...you don't need it."
Jason, why would I sell it Now? Matco got their chance on more than one occassion to make it right ! You think that when my Attorney won't be able to get me money for my tools because you offered to take them off my hands. Jason your as dishonest as Matco's FALSE ADVERTISING. I tell you what I will give you everything(Matco TOOLS) for $50,000 right now.