Greg Muzzillo – Go Buy a Mirror!

Bloody here,

I invite those who stop by the blog to help Mr. Muzzillo with his most recent post here at Bloody (crying like a little piss ant that he’s been attacked personally) to help him out and explain to him why this blog is here and just what Mr. Muzzillo cannot see with how he runs his (excuse me, YOUR) businesses into the ground …… (note the guy is so effing stupid that he cannot use punctuation or spell his own company correctly – is this a franchise owner you’d want to be in control of your livelihood?)

greg muzzillo

hello, greg muzzillo here. i am not sure why you choose to attack me personally or the organization i have taken 30 years of my life to build.

your attack is anonymous. your words are filled with lies and misrepresentations.

the fact is that our suppliers are encouraged to pay some money into a preferred supplier fund. and that money is used to benefit the suppliers and the franchise owners.

we use that money to pay for credit insurance. all our franchise owners receive free credit insurance from the preferred supplier fund. the franchise owner benefits. and the supplier does, too. because in the proforma system, both the franchise owner and their supplier knows that they will get paid…even if the franchise owner’s customer doesn’t pay them.

this year that fund and the insurance program has paid millions of dollars to the franchise owners and their suppliers. in fact, i know of a few franchise owners that would not have survived without the credit insurance proceeds.

proforma has been recognized by inc. magazine, forbes magazine, the wall street journal, success magazine, blue mau mau and many others for its accomplishments.

i am proud our system and our people. i regret that you have taken to anonymous slander, name calling, lying and misrepresentation about proforma.

i am proud of proforma. i am proud of the result of my 30 years of hard work. that said, i admit that we are not perfect and invite you to directly address with me any legitimate issues you have with proforma.

we are committed to helping the dreams of our franchise owners come true. in the spirit of that commitment i invite you to an open and honest dialog.

dream big!

greg muzzillo
founder & co-ceo
proforam

Greggy, you might want to go back to school and learn how to spell and type or at least let one of your peons type for you because your default to defense and your imbacile Rah! Rah! statements further prove to all those watching that you haven’t a clue and you don’t own a single mirror!

Bloody

Freddy Crosses Over to the Dark Side…

It was all innocent at first.  Freddy borrowing money ($1,000) from Dr. Peter to start a sub shop.  Try as he did, Freddy couldn’t make it work.  Maybe two would work instead of one?  So Freddy labored all day and all night to become the quintessential entrepreneur.  But just as one didn’t work, two didn’t work.   Just like throwing your last wad of cash onto a single number at the roullette wheel, Freddy opened a third store.  Voila!  It worked.  Three was a charm!  After a number of years, Freddy knew there had to be a better way.  The hours were too long, payroll was tough and working to manage the whole mess was a juggling act at best.

So Freddy learned about the most lucrative business model ever conjured up by man – where you could use other people’s money to grow your business!  It’s called FRANCHISING!  So it was in 1974 that Freddy moved over to the dark side.  On the shirt tails of Ray K, Freddy started selling franchises to any and all who would show.  He especially loved immigrants who were entering the country with their life savings.  Freddy never told them his model wouldn’t work for just one store. But then, Freddy wasn’t running sandwich shops, he was selling franchises.  And should they figure it out, he could sell them more.  The ones that didn’t, could be sold to new marks.

Interestingly, the Reagan administration relieved the entrepreneurial establishment from common law and allowed arbitration to be the governing entity.  This gave Freddy and his band of merry con men the final authority on any and all contract negotiation and interpretation.  If things went wrong, the arbitration firm could be paid off.  And God forbid anyone sue Freddy.  Should that happen, Freddy simply uses their own royalty fees and vendor kickback monies to nail their puny little pitiful sorry asses to the unemployment line.  Don’t eff with Freddy or he’ll take you to the poor house in a body bag.  Who needs a mafia when one can use the government and one’s own money against him!

And so you have it.  The day the richest man in South Florida decided working to make a legitimate business was for the birds.  Taking advantage of the unkknowing and trusting immigrant and displaced corporate schmuck is a far easier way to become a billionaire and playboy.  And just remember Mr. Schaden, Freddy’s war chest makes yours look like a kindergartner’s piggy bank stash.

Bloody

Who Pays for TV and Radio Advertising?

Turn your television on and for a single hour, jot down the commercials you see on any of the major broadcast or cable channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, ESPN, CNN, etc.).  On major channels, there are three main categories of advertisers.  (Check the bottom of this post to find out what those three are.)

Though it cannot be proven, franchising advocates continuously quote that 40 to 50% of all retail is franchised.  (The data is owned by too many people and influenced heavily by pro-franchisor predatory bigots.) When you analyze the data of your one hour’s worth of major network advertising, it will become apparent just what the three verticals are that spend the lion’s share of advertising dollars with Madison Avenue agencies.

But that’s not the question or the purpose of this post.  The question is: Where is the money coming from?  First of all, some history.  McDonald’s ignored all conventional wisdom over three decades ago when they surpassed the 100 million dollar mark in advertising spend in a single year.  Most could not fathom the thought of such.  How did they justify it?  Simple, it wasn’t their money!  It is the money of hard working franchisees who pay exorbitant royalties to franchisors who spend it freely and with reckless abandon.  McDonald’s practices are truthfully depicted in in Fast Food Nation, author Eric Schlosser.  They pioneered the principle of going after your children, the pester power method.  But that again, is not the issue.  The real issue is that many franchises are B2B and not B2C.  Nearly all of the franchises that are offered at low entry fee are B2B.  These predatory franchisors have no intention of doing anything with the hard-earned  money they collect for advertising from your profits.  When asked the question of where that money is spent, or better yet when reading an FDD or UFOC, it is up to the sole discretion of the franchisor whether or not those funds are even earmarked for advertising.  Read an FDD and if you can even find the subject covered, you will see that the money can be used for advertising or any other thing the franchisor chooses.  Many simply use if to fund their playboy lifestyles.

So the next time you see David Brandon bragging that he’s giving money back to Main Street, don’t believe it.  He’s spending the money of the franchisees as though it is his.  When you watch a Subway commercial, remember that Fred DeLuca is the slimiest franchisor in the world, fighting more lawsuits than McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts and Pizza Hut combined.  Fred gladly sells single franchises to unsuspecting immigrants (all they need is a pocket full of cash) when he couldn’t make it until he owned three!!!  When you see a Quiznos (seedy and poorly thought-out million sub giveaway campaign), know that Rick Schaden and his staff of flunkies approved the campaign and then fired the VP of Marketing (who came from telecommunications – how ignorant and cheap is Schaden for even hiring her) as a scapegoat.  (It’s only a matter of time until Quiznos loses the pricing game, thus driving all of their franchisees out of business.  Freddy D. has 6 or 7 times the number of franchisees, thus a war chest of over 400 million dollars a year at his disposal (pun intended).  Ricky hasn’t a chance of winning a price war.

So the next time you watch a Nascar race (if you can stand the fact they never learned to turn right;), count the number of advertisers who sponsor a car and then see how many are franchises.  Then realize that Ricky and Freddy and Davey are all spending 4 to 5 MILLION per car to put their brand on the hood of a race car!  That’s right, the hard-earned money of your relatives or friends or immigrants (who are unaware because they’re probably working 7 days a week just to make ends meet) is being spent so Ricky and Freddy and Davey can sit in the infield or in VIP boxes,  get special privileges at the expense of those who labor just to scrape by.

The three vertical leaders in advertising are auto, beverage and food.  (Yes, they are all franchised; GM not for long – they are soon to be owned by you and your Commander-in-Chief, who by the way, operates just like a franchisor.  He spends your money and you have absolutely not one damn iota of say in any of those decisions!)

Bloody

Greg Muzzillo is Pro-Bankruptcy (but only if you’re a vendor giving him kickbacks)

Words of wisdom from a franchisor:

Proforma’s co-CEO Greg Muzzillo said “the filing will improve Norwood’s balance sheet immediately”.  Well, no sh** sherlock! Bankruptcy is a great vehicle to screw your creditors!  (Greg gets a 2-3% kickback on every item a franchisee buys from Norwood.)  Why not screw them all the way just like you do your franchisees, Greg (and your wife too)!  After all, you learned from the best – Mr. DeLuca.  And your little whipping boy Brian Smith can help you snow the franchisees into believing that all is OK while you rape and pillage their future livelihoods too!

Except that if you are a franchisee and you chose bankruptcy for protection, you lose everything (Section 13, xii in the franchise agreement)!  So what’s good for the vendor who is feeding kickbacks to Mr. Muzzillo is death to the franchisee who is giving nearly 25% of its net worth to a fat lazy schmuck who sues his ex-wife to get out of child support when he’s making 38K a month and she is a homemaker!  Can you spell D-O-U-B-L-E S-T-A-N-D-A-R-D Greg?

Update: For all of those who don’t know it, Mr. Muzzillo gets it both ways.  He takes kickbacks from every vendor that sells to any franchisee in his system.  If you’re a franchisee, he’ll twist your arm and make you buy from a “Proforma PLP (preferred limited partner)” because there’s a 2% kickback from the heavy volume PLPs (BIC, Norwood, Vantage, SanMar) and more for low volume PLPs who spend their time schmoozing Greg and Vera and Brian.  You would think that franchisees would have more clout since they are losing over 10% in royalty fees as compared to the PLPs.  But oh contrare!  The franchisees are nothing but marks and only those in the “Million Dollar Club” are given any attention (and very little at that).  They are in fact the angriest!  You see, if they do 1 million in business at a net profit of 35% (highest average of all franchisees), they would receive $350,000.  Yet they end up paying Greg and Vera a whopping sum of $100,000 (28.5% of their net profit for absolutely nothing)! (If one only makes 25% net profit on 1 million, then Greg and Vera would receive 40% of the franchisee’s net profit!)

You see Greg and Vera don’t know an effing thing about selling print, promotions or apparel (that’s how Greg got in the business, but he hasn’t been in the trenches for over 25 years.  He was actually an accountant by trade and Vera is an investment banker.)  They are in the business to sell more franchises to more unsuspecting marks and they aren’t very good at that!  Franchise counts are not measurable as they are simply the word of Greg and Vera.  Franchise discontent continues to grow year after year (especially with those who are successful in spite of Greg and Vera).  As one makes more and more profits, Greg and Vera get more and more and more for less and less and less.  What do they do with all of the marketing monies, you ask?  They spend the royalty dollars marketing Proforma to prospective franchisees and mostly for their personal PR to prop up their personal image.  If you want marketing services for your specific franchise, that’s extra and you either have to do it yourself out of your own pocket or you can buy those services from Greg and Vera, (but that will be extra).

Bloody

“Franchisees – Shut Your Mouth or Lose Your Livelihood”…Rick Schaden

The president of a group of disgruntled Quiznos franchisees says the fast-food chain has been granted a court injunction, forcing him to close his three Oakville-area restaurants. Doug Johnson said the injunction, effective yesterday, was ordered within days of another court ruling allowing the franchisees’ lawsuit against Quiznos to proceed as a class action.

The Toronto Star
May 1, 2009

Quiznos closes plaintiff’s stores
After being certified to pursue class-action suit, owner of three outlets in Oakville shut down
Dana Flavelle

Quiznos closes plaintiff’s stores
After being certified to pursue class-action suit, owner of three outlets in Oakville shut down
Dana Flavelle

The president of a group of disgruntled Quiznos franchisees says the fast-food chain has been granted a court injunction, forcing him to close his three Oakville-area restaurants.

Doug Johnson said the injunction, effective yesterday, was ordered within days of another court ruling allowing the franchisees’ lawsuit against Quiznos to proceed as a class action.

The class-action certification represents a major step forward for the franchisees, Johnson said.

“Without the ability to bring this case forward as a group, franchisees face insurmountable obstacles in enforcing their legal rights. We now have a real chance to fix the problems of the past and help franchisees in the future,” Johnson said.

Once again to quote the now deceased Harold Brown’s book (published in 1980 and updated until Release 32, 2001), Franchising: Realities & Remedies, 1.01 [1]

Background of Franchising

[1] –New Concepts

…..As franchising has grown, however, the growth has been acompanied by a number of disputes between franchisors and their franchisees.  While legal disputes are to be expected in any long term relationship, franchisor/franchisee litigation has resulted in franchisors drafting progressively worse franchise agreements for new franchisees to sign.  Ironically, even a franchisee who prevails in litigation or arbitration ultimately harms prospective franchiseees in his system.  The losing franchisor is faced with two options: (1) alter its wrongful conduct, or (2) draft a more one-sided franchise agreement that states that the franchisor is permitted to act in any manner it sees fit.  Remarkably, franchisors almost always choose option number two, and  written franchise agreements reflect an even greater imbalance in power between franchisees and franchisors from year to year.  Franchisee advocates are forced to argue tougher and tougher cases each year as many courts refuse to recognize the imbalance in the relationship and, instead, enforce the language thrust upon the franchisee.

What a phenomenal business model!  Write a one-sided contract, if they sue you, shut them down!  If you lose, change the agreement to make sure they can never sue you in that manner again and cripple the incoming franchisees even more!  Hello franchisees – are you there!  Do you not understand yet?  You cannot fight a crook using a system run by the crook’s buddies (the courts)!  Call it naivete or ignorance or whatever, but the very reason most end up in arbitration is so that the courts could let the franchisors do “what they please”.  If your case makes it to court, then you’ll only end up with a class action or civil case in which you’ll only receive a small portion of your investment (the lawyers take the lion’s share) and then you get to start over!  Cool!  Awesome!  Wage your entire life savings and lose it.  Borrow more (now you’re waging your children’s and fellow taxpayer’s future lives) and fight the good fight against the enemy on their turf!  While you’re fighting, you cannot make a wage because the franchisor can shut you down!  If you win, you might get a tiny fraction back, if you lose, you lose two lives worth of investment.  Either way, you get to start over and fighting on prinicple, doesn’t pay the bills.  Doesn’t sound like a battle much worth fighting.  (I much prefer finding legal ways to make the franchisor’s lifeso bloody miserable, he has to change or suffer the wrath!)

Bloody

Vera Muzzillo in direct competition with Proforma franchisees?

Find an opportunity too good to turn down Vera?  Wonder how your franchisees feel when you fund a company in direct competition with your own?  Hmmmmmmmmmmm………

http://www.insigniapromo.com/staff.html

Bloody

Franchisee Recourse

Many of you have faith in the system.  This is why you bought into a franchise, are looking at buying into a franchise or sadly, have been burned and turned into ash by a franchisor.  Some have said that those of us who have been burned simply want to rant and throw the whole system out (the baby with the bathwater).  This is true if franchising stays in its current condition.  Franchising could be a great model, but not until there is recourse on behalf of the franchisee.  Today, recourse is non-existent.  As a franchisee, here are your options:

Scenario:  You’ve run into a snag.  No matter the snag (financial, operational, marketing, sales, functional or strategic), you are at a point where you don’t have the resources or the knowledge to go it without some assistance.  The normal course goes something like this:

1. Call the franchisor, who gets back to you a week later and simply says “You’re just not doing what we told you to do, keep trying”.  Or perhaps “You’ll need to buy another franchise to increase your revenue”.  (This isn’t an option because you’re already up to your eyeballs in debt.)
2. You call other franchisees to get support and find out they’re in the same boat and they have no answers. (Bitch and moan sessions break out.)
3. You seek out help from your friendly neighborhood lawyer, all to find out he has no expertise in this area and getting any advice from him is just plain stupid and doesn’t apply. (I pity those of you who trust main street lawyers with your livelihood.)
4. You read your contract and find out just how lopsided it  truly is and you now realize you’ve been effed (or “had” if you aren’t yet mad as hell by now).
5. Now you’re really in a pinch and you start thinking about any other recourse you might have.  Let’s just say you’re not an evil person so sabotage or ambush are not considerations of your recourse.
6. Considering you feel you’re very resourceful, you call your local franchisee association (assuming there is one – which means you’re in the minority).  After six months of feeling these people out, you realize its rife with lukewarm blowhards who have no clue as to how to get anything accomplished, while there are slight glimmers of hope from a few conversations, only to realize that corporate has infiltrated the association and everything submitted is “taken under advisement” never to see the light of day again!
7. Finally, you’ve done all of the nice guy things that can be accomplished, so you pull all the stops and you seek out franchisee-only law firms.  After several confusing discussions, you realize that the lawyers will cost you a fortune in hourly fees considering most will not take a contingency case.  Contingency cases must be a slam dunk and this rarely occurs when the UFOC/FDD is written 99% in favor of the franchisor.  The UFOC/FDD is loaded with intangible statements including “good faith” and “disparaging” types of words which do not and will not do the franchisee any favors with most judges.  The law firm will ask you enough questions to figure out whether the case is egregious enough to be considered a contingency or a class-action or you are stuck with arbitration. (Class action suits only benefit the firm and in almost 100% of all cases, the franchisee will only get a partial portion of their initial sunk costs back, about 5 years after engagement if one wins the suit.  The judge in these cases now holds all the keys to your future.)
8. Let’s just say you read the FDD and you ask your competent lawyer about the clauses of “arbitration”.  You find out that you cannot even go to court because you don’t have a case large enough, or it cannot be monetized and you are therefore subject to arbitration.
9. At this point, you either have to have the reserves to hire the firm on a retainer basis ((you now have to take a second or third or pull all of your life savings together (provided you have any left) to defend what you’ve already sunk into the venture)).  If not, you simply give up and either suck it up and swallow the franchisor’s bullshit or you close up shop and walk away a “loser”.  The franchisor can simply put you into the loser’s category and in court, you haven’t a chance in hell of ever convincing a judge or jury otherwise because he has statistics of successful franchisees and unless you can refute them, his word is way more viable than yours.  After all, he’s a successful franchisor and you’re just a low-life franchisee.
10. Maybe you do have a rather egregious case and the firm takes your case on a contingency basis.  First, they will need a retainer.  If you don’t have $50,000 to throw into a retainer, then you have to fund it with a loan or even worse, you ferret out other franchisees to see if you can rally the troops.   (You know from previous conversations that you’re not alone, but for fear of retribution, most are not as ballsy as you and you will have to do this with great fear and trepidation to avoid this getting back to the franchisor making you vulnerable to having your franchise terminated with/without cause).
11. Once you take action with a firm, regardless of contingency, retainer, class-action or some combination thereof, you now are going to be terminated and marked.  You will have to go out and find another way to make a living in the meantime.  Wasn’t buying into a franchise the alternative to having to go back into the corporate hell hole in the first place?

Conclusion:  There is no viable recourse for franchisees.  Even with a settlement (see the previous post about a Quiznos franchise awarded in favor of the franchisee over a 4 year period), you are subject to appeal.  And trust me, the franchisor has more time and money (your money I might add) and will pursue any and every possible remedy (with your money I remind you) to keep you from exposing them.  See the post below placed on Bluemaumau.com by the owner of a franchise when I called him on the carpet for being a dishonest franchisor:

hello all….bloody franchise is a nameless, shameless liar and malcontent. he/she seems to be hell-bent on trying to destroy the institution of franchising with malicious and false attacks on franchisors and their people at his blog and with persistent emails to people in organizations he wants to attack.

he/she attacks real people with real words but all the time refuses to expose hie/her real identity. my caution to you is to be very wary of any communications you have with him/her. his/her ONLY agenda is to destroy all who are part of the franchise family of franchisors and service providers.

hello bloody….we will find you. we will find out who you really are. and because of your malice, libesl and other counts we will seek all remedies the courts allow. you are a coward to hide behind an alias and attack real people. we will find you. and we will crush you. you are a coward. you are a liar. you are a loser. and if you have anything left to lose…you will lost it, too. that’s a promise.

So franchisees, there are no conventional recourse options.  Legal is in it for the money.  Franchisee-only lawyers are in it for the money – they have to be!  If they play both sides of the fence, they cannot be trusted!  The courts don’t have a clue and with the changes in franchising, the laws of the court have been replaced with franchisor-friendly arbitration firms who schmooze the franchisors to get the cases.  You have no options there either.

“So what are my options?” asks the franchisee.

“Aside from criminal, civil or libel actions against the franchisor, going to the press or organizing other victims of your franchise brand to bring grass-roots marches on the front steps of the franchisor, there are none!”  – Bloody

Franchisor: Hiring Your VP of Sales

Qualifications to look for when hiring your VP of sales:

1. #1 qualifier is one-time sales pro – the likes of subprime mortgage stars, real estate brokers used to abusing agents, timeshare salespeople or large company schmucks who are used to spinning without ever having to deliver.
2. #2 qualifier is “yes” man capability.  Never hire anyone who thinks for themselves.  This will come back to haunt you.  Those who think will question and that is bad.  You don’t want anyone who thinks, you just want those who are motivated by money.  Your VP must always be in submission to you, but always in control and carrying the big stick with your prospective franchisees.
3. #3 is bring in those who have the ability to threaten behind closed doors.  Fear is the greatest attribute of franchising.  The fear of retribution is your greatest weapon against the franchisee.  Your VP of sales/business development must be able to carry themselves as though they know what they’re doing, yet be able to threaten individual franchisees into submission.
4. Finally, your VP’s job is to sell franchises, all the while giving off the air that they care about the franchisees’ success and needs (but never really doing anything about these).  Your VP must know how to lie without being caught.  You must stay insulated from the sales process.  Your job is to let him do the dirty work and you only show up to pat the bloke on the back for his “great” decision.  The VP’s primary job is to sell the franchisee and then turn over the blokes to administrative help who are so low level that the franchisee gets frustrated and resorts to his own devices.  A great VP is arrogant and convincing, with the ability to walk away from the relationship after the sale is made.  His job is to get the blokes in the corral and nothing more.  Remember, his job is selling franchises while giving off the impression that he knows the business and he cares (all the while he doesn’t).
5. He must be a great speaker but say nothing.  A great presenter, but forcing the onus on the franchisee.  He must be a great schmoozer to give off the impression that he lives the life of Reilly.  He must be the life of the party, but absent when the shit hits the fan.
6. Finally, you don’t want him anywhere near franchisees who have signed on.  They are in the corral.  They’re bagged and tagged.  Keep him the hell away.  His job is finding the naive and the vulnerable and introducing them to a taste of the good life.   After all, you’re selling financial independence , but they’re selling themselves into indentured servitude.

Bloody

Freddy makes the Billionaires list – Franchisees proud or angry?

Just one question:  Is that money his or yours franchisees?

Subway founder Fred DeLuca of Fort Lauderdale ranked 450th on the list with a net worth of $1.6 billion. His sandwich franchise generated $12.9 billion in revenue last year, Forbes reports. DeLuca is 61.

Mr. Proforma’s (inaquest) response to BloodyFranchise on Bluemaumau

Note the comment placed on BlueMauMau.com by us at Bloody and the “inaquest” response.  The truth hurt so much that “inaquest” (my my, he hasn’t revealed himself while accusing us of being shameless to remain anonymous?) reacted somewhat vehemently with the standard “malcontent” argument.  Mr. Proforma, you know who you are and so do I.  The truth is painful and when it has the potential to touch your wallet, your reaction was quite predictable! 

You might want to listen to your in-house counsel, Mr. Kordel and be careful in the future.  Your character flaws and your temper are going to get you into trouble!  Your trademark email behaviors are well known amongst your Kool-Aid drinkers, as well as those who are sick and tired of making you wealthy for doing nothing while they work their asses off to make ends meet.

 

With regards to your comment: “he/she seems to be hell-bent on trying to destroy the institution of franchising”.  You are partially right.  We are hell bent on destroying the abuses of franchising of which franchisors of the lowest character (you and Mr. DeLuca) have concocted and executed at the expense of the indefensible over the last 30+ years.  I suggest you find an alternative before it’s too late because your fat ivory-tower days in the penthouse are numbered.  Your IQ is half of Bernie’s and they had no problem putting him away!

Franchising 2009  

Submitted by bloodyfranchise on Tue, 2009/02/24 – 17:46.

Mr. Wilkerson,

You have never seen what is going to happen to the franchise market in 2009! Things will happen even you with your vast knowledge will not have predicted. And quite frankly, I don’t know how you think financing opportunities will be difficult? With all of the predatory lending and illegal “capital equipment lease” contracts disguised as financing vehicles, there will be plenty of honest people losing their lives and their homes and their retirements to this fine industry which has fueled your existence we refer to as “franchising”.

“profitable wonder machine” – that’s for damn sure! Wonder is about all it’s capable of creating!

“Mom and pop will gain plenty of attention from franchisors in the care industries, including home and health, entertainment, education and physical fitness” – yet another bunch of marks for you to sell down the river!

“The business of franchising is literally the yellow brick road” – with wicked witches and a little wizard behind the curtain too!

Your Kool-Aid machine goes 24/7 I see…..

https://bloodyfranchise.wordpress.com/

bloody

Submitted by inaquest (not verified) on Thu, 2009/03/05 – 10:59.

hello all….bloody franchise is a nameless, shameless liar and malcontent. he/she seems to be hell-bent on trying to destroy the institution of franchising with malicious and false attacks on franchisors and their people at his blog and with persistent emails to people in organizations he wants to attack.

he/she attacks real people with real words but all the time refuses to expose hie/her real identity. my caution to you is to be very wary of any communications you have with him/her. his/her ONLY agenda is to destroy all who are part of the franchise family of franchisors and service providers.

hello bloody….we will find you. we will find out who you really are. and because of your malice, libesl and other counts we will seek all remedies the courts allow. you are a coward to hide behind an alias and attack real people. we will find you. and we will crush you. you are a coward. you are a liar. you are a loser. and if you have anything left to lose…you will lost it, too. that’s a promise.

Reply to Inaquest

Submitted by bloodyfranchise on Thu, 2009/03/05 – 16:55.

Did we touch a nerve? Reactions like yours mean we hit the mark…The truth really hurts doesn’t it?

Getting exposed for what you really do to people’s lives will be even more painful. Maybe they’ll have a cell next to Bernie or Mr. Stanford for you after sentencing.

Sincerely,

Bloody

2nd reply to Inaquest

Submitted by bloodyfranchise on Sat, 2009/03/07 – 14:27.

Hey Mr. Proforma…..yeah, we know you are behind inaquest – btw – another failed venture back in ’99 –

http://www.inaquest.com
What it offers: Business cards, letterhead, and other standard products; forms; gifts and promotional products.
What it’s good for: Customized marketing giveaways, like T-shirts and phone cards; graphic-design consultation.
Don’t waste your time on: Trying to figure out the site’s odd name, which panelists called meaningless, confusing, and hard to remember.  What our panel had to say: Some found inaQuest.com easy to use and appealing. “This site makes me want to buy something with a logo on it — and I don’t even need anything!” one panelist remarked. But another tester called the site “frustrating” and “a waste of time,” with sluggish page loads that slowed down his system.

http://technology.inc.com/internet/articles/200009/20135.html