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services), the information and economic disparity is very large, sunk costs, etc. Microeconomic theory indicates that since the profit maximizing franchisor makes more money by practicing bad faith

, Opportunism Test: If asset ownership were reversed, would decision likely change?, Resale permission unreasonably withheld, Stores shuttered, System designed to fail for franchisees, Sunk costs

: Expands too quickly, Sold during time of psychological vulnerability, especially unemployment, Cancer, wtf? Comment, Misrepresentations, Life savings gone, False earnings claims, Sunk costs

remedies, Solicitor-client privilege used to shield white-collar crime (self and others), Starts 2nd system from insolvent 1st, Sunk costs, Sue the professionals, Symbiotic relationships (industry, banks, lawyers), Sympathy for the franchisor, Thin-skinned politicians not doing their duty, Threats against franchisee advocates, Threats of lawsuits, Tip of the iceberg, Tobacco industry-type defence, Trading in false hope, Trap for the trusting, Undue influence, Vacuum of information favours dominant party, Violence, War of attrition, Wealth is meant to be re-distributed (not created), Whistleblowers, New Zealand, 20080113 Green acres

(tied buying), Opportunism: contract creates powers which are used to strip investor value during relationship, Prospect Theory: loses hurt much, much more than comparable gains, Sincerity, Sunk

practices done in franchising, Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill, Trade association fronts and defends best and worst franchisors, Trade association membership

had never created adequate investor returns, Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill, Suppliers and landlords act as if they were the franchisor, Misrepresentations, Franchisor sells out, Blame the franchisee, United States, 20071203 Ben &

, Social media marketing, Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill, United States, 20100909 Food trucks

, Sunk costs: franchisee's trapped capital keeps them chained to treadmill, United States, 20100909 Free the

, Regulator already has enough power but they don't use it, Shills, Short- or forced-shipping, Short-term profits to franchisor much higher with cannon fodder investors, Sincerity, Sunk costs: franchisee's