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They claim with their training you can have your own shop in no time flat. But the training they give you is the worst. When I started off I tried doing what they told me and I just couldn't do it. When I asked them for some help they said I must not have payed attention. I
did it exactly like they told me to.
David
Bull Creek Village, Missouri
U.S.A.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Robert
Jacksonville,Florida,
U.S.A.
Try doing it the old fashioned way, work for it
#3Consumer Suggestion
Thu, November 18, 2004
Sorry about you wasting $$ on a bunch of tools from somebody. You could have saved money by purchasing the same tools from a tool truck. The training is meaningless as you have found out. Most of it would have been marketing anyway, not the actual repair side.
Here's what you should do now. The money is gone. Learn from it. Change the account number the Ding King would have been taking the franchise fee out of. Tell the Ding King people you're cancelling the agreement due to their breach of faith. Watch how quickly they address the problem then.
Then, go to a salvage yard and buy a good rust-free fender or hood. Tell them you just want something with no holes in it or bad hits. PRACTICE on it. Use a hammer to smack a golf ball into it to make small dents. PRACTICE getting the dents out. Keep practicing on it untill you get good at it.
This is how we did it "back in the day" when we were learning body work. You practice on a fender or hood and then you go to work on a customer's car. Go to the area dealerships and garages and set up a relationship with them. Body shops can be good too.
Most of the owners don't care HOW the dents get pulled out, just so they do and the shop collects the repair bill. Advertise with your car/truck. More people see your vehicle and remember it than they do a radio or TV ad. I assume your car/truck looks nice.
Hard to sell any type of body repair in a beater, sort of like the mechanic who drives a pig while claiming to be able to fix the high end cars. If you have absolutely no money at all to buy the fender/hood, ask the salvage yard if they'll let you practice on something IN the yard.
They also have need of good dent pullers. They can get more $$ for a straight piece than a dented one. "Work a deal" as they say. Good luck.
David
Bull Creek Village,Missouri,
U.S.A.
Can't get money back
#3Author of original report
Thu, November 18, 2004
Try getting your money back when I called Alan Oaks he told me I was going to get my money back and still work the businness. I told him
there was no way I could keep going with the business with the training they gave me.