How to prevent joining from being cheated?
First, don't trust investment advertisements too much: Many merchants take advantage of investors' ignorance of the industry situation, and often exaggerate the high profits and quick gains of franchising to attract franchisees, which leads many people who don't know the inside story to fall into the trap and suffer heavy losses.
Second, investigate the market and locate products: In today's joining market, there are many different brands. When you choose a brand, you must carefully consider and choose. The selected brand should stand the test of the market and the pressure exerted by peers, and at the same time position the product. The positioning of products depends on local consumption level, cultural environment, regional advantages and other related factors. Customers should have a deep understanding of local environment and other factors.
Third, the company visits, in-depth exchanges, and attaches importance to the contract: after determining the brand to join, some franchisees may be eager to start a business. After reading some publicity materials, I signed the franchise contract hastily, and it was too late to check the contract when there was a dispute later. Therefore, franchisees must have a deep understanding of the company before signing the franchise contract, and even go to other franchisees to investigate the sales situation of each franchise store. After confirmation, they must thoroughly read and understand the franchise contract, see clearly the provisions of each clause, and modify the unfavorable clauses in time.
4. If you are not sure, don't use the company's trademarks and other brands for the time being: after you have not made up your mind, if you sign a contract, it is recommended not to use the signs, trademarks and other items provided by the company, because this is the last hurdle. If you don't use it, you can terminate the contract through legal procedures and recover the losses.
Is it legal to charge the joining fee?
Franchise fee is a unique business form, which means that the brand holder grants intangible assets such as intellectual property rights (including inventions, patents, trademarks and copyrights), organizational management assets, market assets and human assets of the enterprise brand to the franchisee in the form of a contract, and the franchisee engages in business activities under a unified business model according to the contract and pays a certain fee to the brand holder.
: Common joining scams
One: spend money to buy company qualifications
Some spend money to buy a registered but non-operating company through an intermediary and become their own company through share transfer, change of company name and expansion of business scope. The purpose of this is to make the company seem to have been in business for a long time and be more deceptive.
Second: the tight contract has dragged down the deceived.
Find a lawyer who is proficient in law and help them draw up a strict contract to avoid responsibility. Those who find themselves cheated and want to recover their losses or make an explanation are easily dragged down. The management department can't help them only from the legal provisions, because both parties have signed it, and it is difficult to identify contract fraud.
Third, the image of heavy money packaging is chaotic
Spend millions or even millions to decorate the office space magnificently, look "tall", hang up some inspirational quotes, and print second-and third-rate celebrity endorsements on the leaflet to achieve the purpose of deceiving the world and stealing the name.
Four: false propaganda "fishing" to circle money
If you want to "fish", you must be willing to publicize. By making false advertisements, we can attract investors to join us by speculating products. In fact, the scams of these companies that specialize in attracting investment and cheating money are carefully calculated and constantly adjust their strategies to cope with the ever-changing market. The profit from joining the investment promotion action is much higher than the input cost.
Five: fixed answer mode setting money.
Any entrepreneurial project is accompanied by exaggerated publicity, such as "investment of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan, annual income of one million" and "risk-free money-making project". If there are investment franchisees who ask questions, they generally have a set of strict answering modes and handling skills. If the business manager can't come, please ask the "general manager" and "general manager" to make a promise casually, in order to let your franchise fee go first.
Six: Visiting makes people see flowers in the fog.
Whether investors visit the headquarters or the model room of the production workshop, they all adopt man-to-man tactics, and all the visits are under their complete control. In fact, these model stores and production lines are specially set up for franchisees. After several rounds, most investors have been drunk and confused, and they quickly signed up for payment.
Seven: the processed products will never be qualified.
Among the items used for fraud, one is processed and recycled, but it is generally extremely easy to learn and operate. The common tricks are: First, setting traps under the guise of high technology; The second is to use high returns as bait; The third is to make the product unqualified forever. For example, in various deceptive projects such as breeding Cordyceps sinensis and producing cleaning balls, seeds, equipment and raw materials are sold at high prices, and all of them are promised to be recycled at high prices. As a result, they can't survive or always fail to meet their acceptance criteria, which makes investors lose all their money.