Do not buy a computer franchise from Geeks on Call. This company took my investment, my customers and many years of my life leaving myself, my family and many other franchise owners in financial ruin. They only did this to me and others because they could no sell franchises anymore due to most of their owners failing.
Their system and model was broken and while we paid a 11% royalty; highest in the industry; we got nothing much for it and found out later our ad dollars were not being spent where promised so many of us sued Geeks on Call America in state and federal courts.
I purchased and lost many franchises after years of sweat and hard work and so did Jim Gutman, 22 in Phoenix; Terry Frutado, 12 in Portland; Jeff Phelps, 20 in DC and Chicago; Bob Carr, 5 in Boston; Kamrul Khan, 35 in VA, MD and NY; Jim Fu; 10 in Chicago as well as other owners in KC, Houston, Dallas, Boise, San Francisco, etc.
Geeks on Call went from having approximately 350 franchises sold to now barely over 50 nationwide after the mass exodus of franchise owners and employees while being delisted from the stock exchange and foreclosed on by one of their largest creditors.
Geeks on Call executives tried to profit from running company owned stores in these already established territories but could not profit from their own model and fired all company store techs and now utilizes Onforce.com for each unmanned zip code across the country when customers could contact Onforce directly for about 1/2 the price.
Do not purchase these revolving door franchises from Geeks on Call when you can go with a proven system like Computer Troubleshooters or Fast Teks who have national and worldwide footprints, real support and a franchise system that cares about their owners.
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