Legal to hard sell a franchise

purple_909

Hello,

Is it legal for someone to hard sell you a franchise by saying they have someone else wanting your area so you need to sign today in order to secure it or you will lose out?

Thanks

motorguy

purple_909 wrote: »

Hello,

Is it legal for someone to hard sell you a franchise by saying they have someone else wanting your area so you need to sign today in order to secure it or you will lose out?

Thanks

They may have.

They may not.

You have to decide that, but usually its all bluff

HOWEVER, that level of hard sell to me suggests they dont want to give you time to think about it, and you would have to ask WHY dont they want you to have time to think about it.

Wywth

purple_909 wrote: »

Hello,

Is it legal for someone to hard sell you a franchise by saying they have someone else wanting your area so you need to sign today in order to secure it or you will lose out?

Thanks

yes .

PlutoinCapricorn

That is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It is more standard practice than a hard sell. They just want to stampede you into making a decision - for their benefit not yours. If they had someone else lined up, why would they bother with you?

Of course they say that: so do estate agents. I know a clothes shop that had a "closing down" sale for more than two years.

somethingcorporate

It's perfectly normal.

Such tactics to sell franchises probably means there is lots more in it for them than there is for you