He is currently ranting against franchisees who pay their royalties and “spineless” commenters. “You don’t have balls or a backbone!” he yaps. He glorifies the minutemen(not the printing franchise).

Kind of ironic coming from someone who doesn’t have the balls to use his own name or the backbone say which franchise he failed at.

Maybe the wolf on his website should be replaced with a chihuahua. As the saying goes, this dog don’t hunt.

Read the interviews on UnhappyFranchisee.com with the Butterfly Life franchisees and the Cuppy’s Coffee victims. These are people who take responsibility for their role, and truly want others to learn from their misfortune. These are people who will rebuild and be stronger, not who will angrily implode with self-pity.
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/butterfly-life-franchise-discussion/
http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/cuppys-coffee-overview/

Bloody Franchise tells the truth on his website and I believe he does this to prevent others from falling into the “river of blood” shed by those who were tricked into buying unviable franchise opportunities under cover of government regulation.

We have to understand, of course, that those who make their living in and around franchising want no changes to the status quo. We have to understand that because it is ONLY the franchisee, the resourse, who generally takes the fall and who generally has no recourse against the franchisor, the “parable of the broken window” is at work here and franchising is rationalized as serving the greatest good for the greatest number of special interests.

http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/2009/02/carolcross/

It is unfortunate, but the need for such watchdog activity is not going away any time soon.

The garbage franchises mill around and blood suck off the goodwill of the solid franchises, and the garbage ones morph into the industry unscathed. Someone has to shed some sun light on these vampires, and let’s face it, being polite and conducting a show-and-tell just will not get the job done.

This is a bottom up effort, rather than a top down. Because nobody at the top gives a crap about harmed franchisees squeeking.

He {or she} obviously doesn’t know you and I very well.

Different alias. Same words.

The Franchise King

But, of course, Catch 22. The current status quo of franchise regulation allows franchisors to try to save themselves, even as they are going down the tube, by selling new franchises out the front door as long as they can, and selling highly discounted failed units out the back door. Franchisors want to retain their “ace in the hole” just in case they have to adopt churning as a survival tool.

Why would anyone have any objection to franchising if the RISK and the possible REWARDS were disclosed up front to new buyers, who could then make an informed decision asbout buying a franchise.

Franchising can only be rehabilitated, in my opinion, when the risk and the rewards of the investment, as KNOWN to the franchisor, are mandated by government to be disclosed to new buyers of franchises.

http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/2009/02/carolcross/

You’ve got a great perspective. I’d like to hear about your company – confidentially, if you prefer. You can email me at info[at]ideafarm.net.

I believe the Internet has brought the potential for profound change and growth in franchising in two ways. The first is that it’s provided the opportunity to break the silence about the problems franchisees face, and to expose the minority of crooked operators that give the industry a bad name. The Internet and blogs like FranchisePick, http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com and others are trying to balance the fairy tale entrepreneur media portrait of franchising with a bit of reality.

The second way is to highlight the activities and best practices of the good franchise organizations that are earnestly trying to build win-win-win franchisor-franchisee-vendor relationships. Franchising is a dynamic and powerful strategy for expansion. To reach its potential, the industry needs to stop hyping and covering for the worst and start celebrating the truly best.

I’ve been thinking about some of the signs and banners we could display in our demonstration and march, like —PLEASE! STOP! UNDERSTAND THAT FRANCHISING IS DANGEROUS AT ANY BRAND —–and FRANCHISING IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR WEALTH AND HEALTH —–SNAKE OIL SOLD INSIDE UNDER COVER OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION —The WOLF in the River of Blood would be our own PRIVATE brand that we would patent, of course, The SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is over! The Bloody War has started.

Of course, we’d have to check with our favorite and trusted lawfirm, i.e. Quick, Steele, Cheatham, Goode, and Hyde to make sure we wouldn’t break any local laws. I’m sure in our nation’s capitol, freedom of speech is protected in every language spoken in our nation’s capitol, and the police would protect our marchers and protestors from violence from those who sponsored the convention, like the IFA.