Post by determined1 on Nov 15, 2017 4:05:28 GMT
I was talking with a lawyer friend of mine who had looked at the FDD a couple years back. First off, he said that the FDD was the most oppressive one he had ever read. snap is basically a huge bully and treating the franchisees as glorified managers. However, managers laying out their own cash and taking all the risks. He pointed out the fact that snap lays claim to every part of your business and tells you they own all of it and you own nothing. This includes...
Your member list
Your member's billing data
Your club's phone number
Your club's facebook page
Your club's yelp page
Your club's instagram page
(insert any social media data in here)
So most likely they probably lost a legal battle where an owner leaving the system won because they collected and maintained the membership agreements. snap's counter to that? Take that away from the club and store it on server's owned by corporate. This is why the big push. If they don't have it they can't enforce it. I'd recommend continuing to have your members sign a paper document which you keep.
The other disturbing thing is that snap's legal group put together the "contract", but then forces the franchisee to assume liability for it. They screw up you pay the price and snap assumes no liability. If you don't agree then your members are locked out. You have no other course of action and are forced to agree under duress.
Over and over again it's nothing but bully tactics.
Your member list
Your member's billing data
Your club's phone number
Your club's facebook page
Your club's yelp page
Your club's instagram page
(insert any social media data in here)
So most likely they probably lost a legal battle where an owner leaving the system won because they collected and maintained the membership agreements. snap's counter to that? Take that away from the club and store it on server's owned by corporate. This is why the big push. If they don't have it they can't enforce it. I'd recommend continuing to have your members sign a paper document which you keep.
The other disturbing thing is that snap's legal group put together the "contract", but then forces the franchisee to assume liability for it. They screw up you pay the price and snap assumes no liability. If you don't agree then your members are locked out. You have no other course of action and are forced to agree under duress.
Over and over again it's nothing but bully tactics.
