Recent content by Ideafarmer

Interesting conversation. I appreciate all the comments. From his perspective, the sign shop owner thinks he acted in good faith and followed routine industry practices. But from the irate franchisee's perspective (and maybe the bank's) - as chartle pointed out - he was a goon who took money...

We own the signs! ams: I'm not sure how it works with car dealerships (who technically owns the sign), but I can tell you that because a company owns the trademark does not mean that they own all physical property that displays their trademark. In this case, the franchisee has a franchise...

I'm not the sign company owner but I spoke to him. It didn't sound like he had more than an approved estimate - no disclaimer that said they had the legal right to remove the signage. I think he wrongly assumed it was going to be the same as it had with the big companies...

I spoke to the local owner who has been in the business for 10 years. He says he has done removals for franchise companies like McDonald's, Burger King, etc. many many times and never had a complaint or problem. Even though he took his Facebook page offline this morning because the franchisee...

The two different stores were in two different municipalities. The police department for the smaller one was pretty dismissive. The second police department (larger, medium sized city) took it very seriously and wanted to meet with the franchisee's attorney and get documentations, etc. The...

Question: If an out-of-state sign company calls a local company and asks them to remove and destroy a closed local business's sign, would most do it without checking to see who actually owns the sign? Here's a real life scenario that's got a local sign company in hot water. The local...