To date 19 of us have assembled to share our similar stories of grief at the hands of Jimmy Crangle of itefl.org. (and other business names with one common denominator: Jimmy Crangle).
I was a franchise licence holder from April 2016 to April 2017. I would be selling online education to people wanting TEFL certification. I invested in a franchise licence then spent monthly on advertising.
The commissions were not coming in as promised by contractual agreement. Commissions were very weak in fact. A refund of the investment was also promised by contactual agreement. After it was obvious that I was nowhere near the promised commissions of 50,000 USD for the year I asked for the refund. A Settlement Agreement was established.
The total outstanding in the Settlement Agreement was over $14,000 USD. A couple of small payments were made. Then the company (through its solicitor) reported they were insolvent and could not pay out the settlement.
I saw the web page was taken down. It made the insolvency seem real. Then it was back up. Jimmy is still operating and has a raft of new franchisees. There have been claims of limited franchise licences being sold.
Others in the aforementioned collective have very similar stories. Some are owed much more. This is a summary. The exact numbers for 19 people (and counting) are currently being aggregated by complainants.