This web site is devoted to telling the horrible truth about Mac Tools, a company owned and operated by The Stanley Works. I am sure you have heard of The Stanley Works. I call it "Uncle Stanley." Uncle Stanley sells hardware in practically every hardware store in the United States and Canada. Through Mac Tools, they also sell tools directly to mechanics in the United States and Canada.
It is time for the world to know the truth about this 800 pound gorilla that thinks it can sit anywhere it wants. The truth is that it can't. I defy you Stanley. I defy you to suppress my right to speak out. I spit on you and everything you stand for. You are a menace to respectable, hard-working people, and you should be punished. I am only one example of the many tragedies that surround your business program, including at least one manger I know of that tried to commit suicide. There will be a special place in hell for you Uncle Stanley. A very special place, and it will be lonely there. You are going to hell, Uncle Stanley, and this is why:
Uncle Stanley is a vicious company living a lie. I have caught it in that lie, and as a result Uncle Stanley is trying to destroy me and my family, all because I am outspoken about what they did to me. I first came into contact with Uncle Stanley in 1993 when I became a Mac Tools dealer. Mac Tools had been in trouble for several years, but no one recruiting me ever bothered to tell me that. Its distributors had been leaving in droves, and suing Mac Tools right and left. Since 1993, Mac has paid out millions of dollars to settle claims by hundreds of former distributors, but no one with Mac ever told me that.
In 1993 when I was recruited, a distributor in Idaho was suing Mac for its irresponsible business practices, including its failure to provide promised field support to its dealers through Mac's so-called "business" managers. The Idaho jury was so appalled by Mac's business practices, that it awarded the distributor $500,000 in punitive damages to punish Mac for the malicious way it treated its dealers. I know all too well about Mac's lies and maliciousness.
Mac induced me to invest in a tool distributorship by promising me that a lucrative mill with 800 employees would be included in my route, and that I would have the same territory that had been assigned to the previous Mac dealer. When I asked why a dealer would leave such a lucrative opportunity, Mac told me it was because the dealer was lazy and unmotivated. Mac also told me that my anticipated expenses for my business would be around $10,000 per year. It told me that the capital I had invested was sufficient to operate and grow my business. It told me, like the dealer in Idaho, that I would have full training and field support from a district "business" manager. Most of these statements were bald-faced lies.
After I started my business Mac informed me that I would not get the mill, nor the same territory assigned to the previous dealer. Mac splintered off the mill and assigned it to another dealer. Also, my business expenses were more like $30,000 per year, not $10,000 as Mac told me.
As I just recently found out, my initial training was improperly abbreviated and failed to meet Mac's minimal standards printed in their very own management manual (which they never showed me). There was also no stability in management and support, for I had four different district "business" managers over a four-year period. I went for as long as six months without any district "business" manager at all.
The only thing I haven't determined yet was whether or not the previous dealer was in fact lazy and unmotivated. I suspect that he, like I, worked long hours in a business that was designed to be unprofitable for the dealer, and where managers customarily blamed the distributor for all of the company's ills.
I quit working with Mac Tools and, like the dealer in Idaho, sued. Shortly thereafter, Mac got the case thrown out of court in Canada by saying I had signed an agreement that required all disputes between us to go to arbitration. I remembered that agreement. It was an agreement that was presented to me as a "take it or leave it" proposition. I was told that it was a brand new finance program for Mac dealers called the "Mac Advantage" program. It was to replace the existing "Mac Cap" program which had driven many dealers out of business due to its recourse provisions and high interest rates. When the agreement was presented to me, I was told that under Mac Advantage there would be no recourse, and that the interest rate would be 12%, not 18%. It sounded like a good deal, so I signed it. I later found out that there WAS recourse, and that the interest rate was more like 18%, not 12%. Mac had lied to me just to get me to sign the agreement with the arbitration clause. I guess it worked, because the Canadian court threw the case out of the Canadian court and into arbitration.
After that, I tried to get Mac to arbitrate. I couldn't afford a lawyer at this point, so on my own I wrote letters and emails to the Mac lawyers. They refused to respond, and for over a year nothing happened. Then I launched this web site telling everyone what Uncle Stanley had done to me, and suddenly Uncle Stanley's attorneys started paying closer attention to me. In fact, they took such an interest in me that Uncle Stanley had its lawyers file a $15 million law suit against me saying that I was defaming them. Me defaming them? Stanley was defaming itself in the business world through its malicious and unfair business practices. It tried to stomp me like a bug. I wouldn't let it.
I am now launching other web sites to tell the truth about Uncle Stanley, and once again Uncle Stanley is suing me, this time in an ICANN lawsuit. ICANN is an entity which supervises the Internet. Uncle Stanley says that I am a "cybersquatter" and that I have purchased domain names to extort money from Uncle Stanley. That is not true. What I really want from Stanley is a pound of its flesh. I also want to be rid of the pain they have caused me and my family by lying to me to persuade me to invest in a Mac distributorship, by failing to train or support me, and by trying to squash me like a little bug with their team of a hundred lawyers when I started publicizing the truth about Uncle Stanley. Piss on 'em.
You probably thought that big companies wouldn't stoop to such things, didn't you? Well think again. Uncle Stanley's Rip Van Winkle lawyers, after going to sleep for a year, have now woken up and are trying to arbitrate the suit I originally filed! Uncle Stanley is also still pursuing the $15 million lawsuit against me for defamation. Uncle Stanley is also still pursuing the ICANN action to recover domain names that I am going to use as web sites to tell the truth about good ole' Uncle Stanley. There will be a fourth lawsuit that will also go on the Internet, and that will be a lawsuit filed by my American lawyers for Uncle Stanley's malicious prosecution and abuse of process.
This web site contains information and documents that relate to all of the problems I have discussed. There are many documents to read, and letters from other dealers. If you have something to say about Uncle Stanley, email me and I will endeavor to share it with my readers. This web site changes on a weekly, sometimes daily basis as new events transpire. I will try to keep it updated so that you will know the truth.
