If you are a builder do not consider them for distributorship. They rep'd a premier CNC lathe mfr which gave them the privilege to sell parts,which btw is easy money and what keeps many of the HFO's doors open.After selling well into the 5 figures $$ of parts and being 90 days late the builder was told he did not have the money and the only way he could pay them back was on future sales. At the same time, he was not paying ANY of his salesmen their commissions. He owed me $16,000 before the builder pulled the line and hired me as a direct factory rep. I was lucky and was offered a job. 1 salesman quit after westec, he was owed more than I. He owes another guy north of $30k and his senior salesman took 9 mos leave as he was due almost double that.
To make things worse, him and his wife live a pretty extravagant lifestyle. She had the gall to send a salesman an email stating they couldn't pay us commission because they had to pay bills and why don't we go out and sell more!!!
Moreover, he lies to customers about his service capabilities. He counts the girl that answers the phone, his wife that schedules, the 1 service man on his payroll plus sub-contractor service companies as HIS service department. Very Masco of him,lol,
All this on top of screwing the local gov't. He got free rent in his "Buddies" factory (SoloCup), which is in an un-incroporated parcel of LA County. He built office space that didn't meet code as it blew all the breakers and fried a few pcs and their server.When I asked him how he got away with it he said there is no code-enforcement in un-incorporated areas. He also deducts taxes from our car-allowance which is non-taxable, no doubt hiding that money from the IRS/FTB cuz it doesn't show on our W-2's
This guy is the epitome of scum.