Complaint / Review
Adengine, Franchise Opportunities, Ad Engine, Small Business Opportunity, Franchise For Sale
Franchise Online, Restaurant Franchise, Food Franchise, Ad Engine, Project True North Same Franchise Advertising Company Charging Clients as Different Companies

AdEngine, aka Franchise Opportunities, has multiple websites that appear to clients and visitors to be different companies when in fact they are one. Franchiseopportunities.com, franchiseforsale.com, bestfranchiseopportunities.com, franchiseonline.com, smallbusinessopportunity.com, restaurantfranchise.com, and foodfranchise.com are all operated with different addresses and phone numbers that match the cities they are operating in.

Call a sales person at franchiseonline.com and ask him where his office is at and where he lives. He will tell you South Carolina when in fact he is in Alpharetta, Georgia just like the bestfranchiseopportunities.com sales person that will tell you he is in Florida when if fact he's in Alpharetta too.

The same goes for the other sites that have made up addresses that only to go P.O. Boxes and have the checks forwarded to Alpharetta.

Ad Engine has been ripping off clients for several years under different names. First they were owned by Joseph Lunsford whom made millions when he sold the company to Landmark. He did many dishonest things with the company.

The above is fact but there were rumors that he even paid off the local Google representative to get the ppc list for franchisegator.com (Franchise Gator is also located in Alpharetta but is actually not related to Ad Engine)

When Ad Engine, formally called Dot2Net Solutions and Project True North was preparing to sell the company Lunsford brought Garth Snider on board to help the transition. Snider had the opportunity to make the company an honest place but instead he failed to do so and continues operating the company unethically. He is an attorney so he may have found "legal" ways around the company structure, but this doesn't make it right.

It seems that many franchisors have a huge lawsuit against Ad Engine to recover lost ad revenue. Ad Engine has deep pockets that were generated from the advertisers hard earned money. Now the sales team makes crazy amounts of money while the management does even better. Lunsford is a multi-millionaire now and all of it was and is still being made through dishonest, unethical, and probably illegal means.

There's no time to mention how all of the ppc accounts are set up as different companies too so that Ad Engine can trick the search engines into listing their multiple sites over and over.