Indesit Franchise

[john10671]

Hi is anyone doing this or have you heard of anyone doing this ?
Ihave been given the opportunity to buy into a franchise just wondering if there is any negatives or positives before i decide.

Cheers
John

[don]

Re: Indesit Franchise

Hi John

This thread here should help.

There may be more, if you type Indesit AND franchise into the search bar 😉

Don

[Martin]

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Have a look at THIS ONE too! 😀

[john10671]

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Thanks for that guys so glad this site is about youve just saved me £5000.00 thats the price just for stock £25.00 pm for lap top and if i didnt already have a van theres the £15000.00 for 10-12 calls a day its impossible to make that work.

Thanks again
John

[kwatt]

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I actually think I’ve reached a bit of a conclusion on franchises reading back over all that stuff and, what I’ve learned and read elsewhere.

I think there’s basically two kinds of franchise…

One where a large organisation, such as McDonalds, a car dealership or whatever, want to franchise to expand, grow the brand and not have to worry about having to micro-manage every branch. This works well and pays.

The other kind where, really, all the franchise offers is a job that you pay to buy into and you end up as, basically, a sub contractor that has limited control over your own business. That doesn’t work well.

The first will cost tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands and give good returns in the main, well advertised and all that with products or services people actually want and go looking for.

The second is more of a “well you get out of it what you put into it” type affair costing a few grand up to a few score thousands of pounds. Whilst there is truth in you get what you put in, the same is true of your own business if you choose to start one and even £5K buys an awful lot of advertising and/or equipment. But usually it’s services or goods that aren’t so well advertised and will not generally be household names which, as any marketing person will tell you, is very, very hard to achieve. So, you only get business when people want you.

Also in that category sits the like of Indesit, it’s really just a cheap way of getting an employee that you have no liability for in terms of sickness, insurance, redundancy and all of the rest and, here’s the really brilliant bit, you don’t even have to send any work to them and when you don’t you don’t have to pay them either… brilliant!

I think I’d pass too. 😉

On the other hand, maybe I should set up a franchise business model, sell some poor saps a “franchise” and move to Spain.

But the proof is in the financials really for each one.

Any that I have come across for this industry offers no protection to the franchisee and, from what I can see, the only people that win in all this are the ones that flogged the franchise… who are now residing in Malaga…

Also I’ve never seen offered in this industry has a contract that hasn’t been worth the paper it was written on with Draconian terms with little or no guarantees on volumes or incomes and it doesn’t pay enough to be worth investing any cash into. If it was, there’d be a number of large companies snapping up franchises… they’re not.

K.

[Martin]

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You missed out on the ‘third category’ Ken……..The Pacifica Group….but sssssh! I don’t want to wake lee8 up.:wink:

[funkyboogy]

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i think we ok as long we dont mention the co that starts with j has a t in the middle and a m at the end , so we should be ok …

lol …

i would be intresting to hear from anyone doing a merloni franchise ,

but dont hink they get in untill about 11.50 pm after doing 16-20 calls to make it pay ..

ally

[kwatt]

Na, I decided to avoid some name dropping to avoid a sprawling debate about it all.

After all, it’s most unlike me to provoke a debate about things isn’t it. 😉

I could bang on about the topic a bit though if you like.

All I wish is for people who look at this sort of thing to think very long, very hard and get lots of advice before they part with a single penny of their own cash.

K.

[Martin]

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funkyboogy wrote:but dont hink they get in untill about 11.50 pm after doing 16-20 calls to make it pay ..

Ding Dong!…you don’t think that, maybe, just maybe, nah surely not……?:rotl:

[lee8]

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Martin wrote:You missed out on the ‘third category’ Ken……..The Pacifica Group….but sssssh! I don’t want to wake lee8 up.:wink:

You called. 😀

Have you ever used Fixzone. 😆

JTM are so bad they must be doin there accounts with an abacus. 😯

0800 the greatist part of the company, really amazing franchise well worth the cash.

They now fix, install and service domestic gas heaters, boilers etc, next thing you no they’ll have a forum, spares sales and a retail outlet.

I can just see it now, all bright and glowing with a really big tool on the roof.

[kwatt]

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lee8 wrote:I can just see it now, all bright and glowing with a really big tool on the roof.

On the roof?

K.

[funkyboogy]

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dam it .. see what you done martin ..

on a serious note i dont think i would take a franchise in this industry.
maybe mcdonalds etc .. serious money though.

i would really be gutted if some poor engineer ended up with one of these merloni franchises .. think their a few threads on ukw none have anything good to say ..

[lee8]

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Sorry the Ruff, forgot your from upt nurth. 😆

[funkyboogy]

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i think k ment in some cases the tool will be in the drivers seat as apposed to the roof

not mentioning any names

[kwatt]

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funkyboogy wrote:i think k ment in some cases the tool will be in the drivers seat as apposed to the roof

I’d never insinuate something like that I’m sure.

I forgot about the screwdriver… honest.

K.

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