Complaint Review: Inches-A-Weigh

Update: I was admiring Scott Simciks bio again at his new hustle called Franchise Growth Partners. Gone is his claim that he was a "millionaire by 1983" and Inches is now simply acquired by a Canadian firm. Are you getting email updates from ripoff Scott? Obviously, he's distancing himself for the ultimate demise of the Inches-A-Weigh franchise because his credibility to hustling entrepreneurs looking to sincerely franchise would suffer. Who wants advice from someone who was franchising as a scam? I'm also surprised he doesn't claim he actually sold the Inches -A -Weigh company for real money. "Aquired " sounds nicer than it simply "died a unnatural death." Scott actually told me he closed his Birmingham Inches -A-Weigh centers so he could focus on. "helping his franchisees." We all knew Scott was not making any money. No Inches -A -Weigh centers were. But when they started losing money Scott decided to quietly close his and go all in on milking the francisees. He even hired extra staff to go to locations with the highest sales and attempt to audit, I mean squeeze, more money from the owners. Good times. I actually liked the "millionaire " reference. I remembered him mentioning it with a straight face several times.

Update: I was admiring Scott Simciks bio again at his new hustle called Franchise Growth Partners. Gone is his claim that he was a "millionaire by 1983" and Inches is now simply acquired by a Canadian firm. Are you getting email updates from ripoff Scott? Obviously, he's distancing himself for the ultimate demise of the Inches-A-Weigh franchise because his credibility to hustling entrepreneurs looking to sincerely franchise would suffer. Who wants advice from someone who was franchising as a scam? I actually liked the "millionaire " reference. I remembered him mentioning it with a straight face several times.

Hi I too experienced the Inches-A-Weigh Scott Simcik con tactics. The corporate Inches team knowingly lie to sell the franchise licenses to primarily hard working people who end up losing the bulk of their savings. Many file bankruptcy. When a franchise in Arizona became profitable thesee franchisees financials where illegally shown to prospective new owners by Scott. These victims where told that this was typical Inches numbers. The truth is that the Arizona owners where experienced high pressure timeshare sellers who where also getting special treatment from Scott to continue this part of the con. Scott would say that Inches was a typical franchise in that 1/3 of the locations where highly profitable, 1/3 where doing "okay," and 1/3 where in "transition." And in "transition " always meant because of personal reasons ; not because of a flawed business model. What wasn't told was that Scott had already sold hundreds of franchises and during this "heyday " there was usually only about 30 locations active because as several new ones where sold each month an equal number would quietly close. This happened before the days of internet and information was difficult to verify. Most where stunned at the level of deception. Thousands of licences have been sold with the plan to be bigger than Jenny. What typically happened is an owner would bring up the fraud and Scott Simcik would let them know that he would resell the license to another pidgeon. The owner would get a fraction and sign a "no tell the truth " contract and Scott would make another sale. The owners other option was to go legal only to learn about the unfavorable "mediation " clause in the original franchise agreement that would cost them the small fortune that Scott had already liberated. What also becomes obvious after you have your own Inches is that your clients don't lose weight because the program is stupid and never honestly researched. The machines where out of the 60's and downright silly. The products are selected purely because they were the cheapest available. The manufacterer of these will slap any company name on the label; they are not proprietary. I personally believe that Internet communication has hurt the Inches Scott Simcik con because it was so dependent upon keeping the real numbers hidden from prospective new franchisees. This was Scott's bread and butter; not continual revenue from failing locations. I pulled up the Inches site and have learner that they are down to a handful of locations. Scott has moved the address to a drop location outside Vegas. I ' m sure he would still sell a franchise license to some who has no Internet access. The Westlake CA address on the above ripoff report is Scott's home address. Too funny. What I now see is he is the CEO of Franchise Growth Partners that is also superhyped but makes their money as cheap home rental property managemt. Check out his bio on the FGP site. Scott brags he was a millionaire by 1983! He also explains how Inches was acquired by a Canadian investment firm. Whatever.... All I really know is that what comes around, goes around. See ya in millionaire heaven Scott!