Franchisee 'fed up' as master fails to perform

posted on 20th December 2014

An Indian immigrant who bought a Mr Green franchise in Christchurch fears that he has lost his $19,500 investment after the local master franchisee was struck off the Companies Register. The master franchisee, Richard Dean Smith, says that the money will be refunded in stages.

His lawyers Lane Neave say under the franchise agreement, Thomas was supposed to receive two weeks' training, during which he would be paid by MGC, and MGC was supposed to provide a list of customers that would return about $1000 a week initially.

The business was supposed to start on September 25 but no training and no customers came in the first few weeks.

Thomas said he began to worry and Smith was increasingly more difficult to contact.

When he did talk with Smith, he "was always promising something would happen next week."

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