Comments on: A Simple Buying Guide on Franchise Business

By: Harrison

Harrison — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:49:30 +0000

Hi queencardboard, thanks for giving your comment.

I would like to say that I don’t have any intentions to misleading my readers that Entrepreneur’s Top 10 franchise business is the bes franchise business to start with. Instead, I’m using it in my articles because I think it will be a good start to do the RESEARCH from the top 10 list. At least to my readers, they will have some kind of targeted list for researching after reading my article.

Anyway Thanks for sharing a good site with us

By: queencardboard

queencardboard — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:17:15 +0000

Under Pros and Cons you have listed a PRO as a franchise offers a proven business model. That may have been true 15 years ago, but do your research. Most of the franchises listed in the Entrepaneur Top Ten did not exist just a few years ago. A proven business model is not assured by selecting a franchise.
Utilizing Entrepaneurs Top Ten list without questioning the data is very misleading to the public you appear to be serving. You would do more good for potential franchisees if you posted the names of frachisors and the websites that their franchisees have developed to share their stories. May I suggest that you always include BlueMauMau.com when ever you write about franchising. Blue Mau Mau is not dedicated to any one franchisor and would be a great source of information for prospective franchisees to get REAL information.

By: El Jefe

El Jefe — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:10:38 +0000

Entrepreneur’s Top Ten: “All companies, regardless of size, are judged by the same criteria: objective, quantifiable measures of a franchise operation. The most important factors include financial strength and stability, growth rate and size of the system. We also consider the number of years in business and length of time franchising, startup costs, litigation, percentage of terminations and whether the company provides financing.”

Figures don’t lie. But data can be manipulated.
Did Entrepreneur judge individual UPS Stores or UPS, the shipping behemoth in Atlanta, one of the cash-richest companies in America?
What system? The system grown by the former Mail Boxes Etc franchisees? The group that swelled the ranks to nearly 4500 stores? Or UPS’ distribution system?
Years in business & length of time franchising - sorry that belongs to Mail Boxes Etc not UPS.
And who validates UPS’ figures and how do they do it?

The TUPSS is a scam of epic proportions. The 3200 or so stores that converted were instantly turned into staffed drop boxes for UPS. The franchisees were forced to sign away their rights and UPS contracted themselves into position to be able to take a store owners business legally. For example the”mystery Shopper” program. Three material faults and UPS has the legal right to take a store away from the owner. A material fault could be: no name tag on an employee, not mentioning UPS first for shipping options, failure to promote other services in the store, a customer misleads you on whether a shipment is residential or commercial. and you ship it incorrectly. It may sound far-fetched but these issues were discussed in UPS controlled presentations and they, UPS, refused to omit this clause or modify it.
You parent company is your competitor and they control your retail rates as well as your cost.

This is but a minute fraction of the problems with The UPS Store Franchise system

By: mbeman

mbeman — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:40:36 +0000

CURRENTLY THERE ARE 3 MAJOR LAW SUITS AGAINST UPS/MBE.THE GROUPS THAT ARE IN LITIGATION ARE …IAMCO…PSA…BSA..AS WELL AS MANY INDIVIDUAL SUITS FROM FRANCHISEE’S.MORE INFO IS AVAILABLE ABOUT ALL THE LITIGATION AGAINST UPS/MBE AT http://WWW.TALKBROWN.COM

By: FranchiseBrief.com

FranchiseBrief.com — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:54:00 +0000

DIdn’t UPS franchisees ttake legal actions against the company? What happened exactly?

By: Harrison

Harrison — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:08:12 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Well it seemed like UPS is giving a lot of negative impression to you all. Would you all mind to share with us some of the stories that you encounter which make you think that something wrong with UPS?

By: BAMBOOZLED

BAMBOOZLED — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:51:47 +0000

This has to be one of the best thought out fanchise scams ot this century (UPS STORE). Purchased one of these franchises in 04 at the height of the scam and low and behold closed down 2 yrs later. This particular store had a 3 yrs track record and had the appearence of hype that was promoted durning the impossible task of due dilligence. Changed nothing at the transition and in one month instant 35% decrease in sales. This is the time the UPS corp business model put the dagger into the hearts of the franchisees. This can only happen when you consistantly build up your customer base with all your efforts only to have it given directly to your franchisor. Guess what happens when your franchisor decides to be in direct 100% competition with the store owner? On another note the rating of this franchise by Entrepenuer or any other magazine is at full tilt toward the franchisor since the only data the magazines get is from you know who UPS ONLY!

By: MBEMAN

MBEMAN — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:36:49 +0000

IF YOU COMPARE THE UPS STORE TO ENRON,,,THE UPS STORE MAKES ENRON LOOK HONEST..THE UPS STORE IS THE BIGGEST SCAM OF THE 21st CENTURY…

By: Harrison

Harrison — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:44:59 +0000

Thanks for the comments. It sound like we have to pay attention before dumping any money into the UPS franchise store

By: I B Confused

I B Confused — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:49:07 +0000

I would suggest to any potential TUPSS franchisee to take all the money they have, this amount should be in the neighborhood of $225-250K and dump it into the nearest trash can.

This will give the potential franchise owner the advantage of owning the next 10 years of his/her life and the accompanying minimum loss one could expect to lose buying one of The UPS Store franchises. Simply losing this amount of money is one thing, but giving up your life for the next 10 years is priceless.

Someday the full story of this fleecing of potential franchise owners will be told… too bad so many lives will be wrecked before this will happen…