AAMCO Scam

To whom it may concern:

I purchased a Cottman Transmission franchise shortly before they merged with AAMCO Transmissions. How I feel now that I can see clearly, is I was “a target.” I had the money to put down, the very perfect credit scores, and the honest buisness intentions to last “just long enough” to fail in an industry designed by pressure to make the “break-even” point; enough to start selling rebuilds from bad TCM’s / bad speed sensors / bad throttle positioning sensors / bad “prindle” park-reverse-neutral safty switchs / filter issues / etc.etc. ; survival tactics I had REFUSED to employ. Just long enough to establish a presence in the community; long enough to smooth out all the rough edges; long enough to run “entirely” out of money, close the doors, and watch them sell my business to another “sucker.” Over and over the same franchise gets sold; sold to “another target,” finally sold to the one who can “employ survival tactics.” I’m sure of it.

I know there are others out there, other previous “targets,” who refused to “employ survival tactics,” so beat-up, broke, lost as to what to do now that their lives and credit are in the toilet. All the while getting absolutely no help or breaks what-so-ever from “The Home Office.” I feel as though I was suckered into a “finely tuned, well organized PLAN.”

Do some feel like they “got the shaft”? They probably did; by a manager who employs “survival tactics;” They call them “gun slingers.” The regional reps will find you a “gun slinger,” if your shops numbers aren’t where they should be. It goes on every day, all day, every where. I wish someone could fix this. I got “slam-dunked.” And, the sad thing is there will be more to follow. “Buyer beware” sounds like the LAW has allowed PREDITORS to prevail.