Tahoe Industries Tahoe Powerquip Fabricates Stories and Lies about Resale Value to sell overpriced equipment through impulse selling Las Vegas, Nevada

I'm sure Homer sells some fine window cleaners. I have no idea who he is, but I'll take your word on it.

I'm not sure who you talked to, but it wasn't me. Maybe you talked to another person here. Since you don't have my personal information that you posted correct I'll assume that you talked to someone you thought was me.

Since you want to use eBay for price comparison to justify the value of your products I'll invite you and anyone else reading this to search eBay's completed item history for your products (specifically your products, not comparable items). What I found wasn not in line with the values you listed, not even close. There were (and are) plenty of your items listed for the prices you mentioned, and I was unable to find a single item that sold for the prices you listed. When you take a look at the average prices of the items that actually sold you can see why we chose not to sell them on eBay. We would have lost money, despite buying them for less than you claim they are worth. So we chose to post the items for sale locally to try to sell them items to people in immediate need of them. Contrary to your assessment of our location and the amount of traffic, we're on a well travelled road and are sitated between a town of 7,000 and a city of 28,000 and we have a customer base of several thousand people. In reality, we had plenty of people stop to look at the items but they were turned off by the price. The only item we were able to sell was the diesel generator and that was during a bout of power outages that emptied all of the local stores of generators. You are correct that we were unhappy for what we were able to sell it for.

In addition I'd suggest anyone curious about the selling tactics of your distributors to contact a few of the sellers currently listing your products on eBay and ask them if they happened to buy them from a person who had them on the back of a pickup truck who had a story similar to the one I mentioned in my original post.

If your distributors are not conveying the correct image of your company or are using selling tactics you don't support I would suggest you take it up with them. The truck that was here had only your name and logo on it, and the equipment has only your name and logo on it. The seller mentioned nothing about being an independent entity. If he was misreprsenting your company name you should settle that with him. If the more recent reports on this website and others are any inidcator, he's still out there to this day making friends nationwide.

I'm not sure what world you live in where you think that items being sold as already filled and run for demonstration ("trade show demos" are what we were sold) are worth more than new unused items. Most stores sell demo models for a discount, not a $100 premium.

I want to put my two cents in here.  I am a personal friend to homer galesbo of bates city, arkansas.  Homer Galesbo drove around the Tahoe area selling window cleaners door to door.  I've known Homer Galesbo since 1994 and have always found Homer Galesbo to be a man of excellent character.  Homer Galesbo should not be listed on this site as Homer Galesbo is a family man and would never resort to shady dealings in selling window cleaning products.  Homer Galesbo has 2 beautiful children and Homer Galebo has always taken his kids to church on sunday.  If anyone has anything bad to say about Homer Galesbo they should take it up with me.  In fact I think I'm going to chreate a website called www.homergalesbo.com is a great guy and anyone who doesn't like homer galesbo has something terribly wrong with them.  I've read all the reviews about Homer Galesbo and I can tell you they are nothing buy lies and rubbish. 

Homer Galesbo is one of the most wonderful family mans I have ever met.  As a side note Homer Galesbo is pretty handsome too.  One time in high school we made out in Homer Galesbos truck.  I want to put my two cents in here.  I am a personal friend to homer galesbo of bates city, arkansas.  Homer Galesbo drove around the Tahoe area selling window cleaners door to door.  I've known Homer Galesbo since 1994 and have always found Homer Galesbo to be a man of excellent character.  Homer Galesbo should not be listed on this site as Homer Galesbo is a family man and would never resort to shady dealings in selling window cleaning products.  Homer Galesbo has 2 beautiful children and Homer Galebo has always taken his kids to church on sunday. 

If anyone has anything bad to say about Homer Galesbo they should take it up with me.  In fact I think I'm going to chreate a website called www.homergalesbo.com is a great guy and anyone who doesn't like homer galesbo has something terribly wrong with them.  I've read all the reviews about Homer Galesbo and I can tell you they are nothing buy lies and rubbish.  Homer Galesbo is one of the most wonderful family mans I have ever met.  As a side note Homer Galesbo is pretty handsome too.  One time in high school we made out in Homer Galesbos truck.I want to put my two cents in here.  I am a personal friend to homer galesbo of bates city, arkansas.  Homer Galesbo drove around the Tahoe area selling window cleaners door to door.  I've known Homer Galesbo since 1994 and have always found Homer Galesbo to be a man of excellent character.  Homer Galesbo should not be listed on this site as Homer Galesbo is a family man and would never resort to shady dealings in selling window cleaning products.  Homer Galesbo has 2 beautiful children and Homer Galebo has always taken his kids to church on sunday.  If anyone has anything bad to say about Homer Galesbo they should take it up with me.  

The Tahoe Companies have been libeled and defamed by a competitor, Mr. Ashley Burton of Pacific Equipment Sales of Travelers Rest,SC, numerous times on Ripoffreport.com.  We originally thought this posting by Joel of Tamaqua, PA was one of the finer pieces of Mr. Burton's defammatory garbage designed to trouble Tahoe Equipment owners.  But a thorough investigation of every garage in Tamaqua, PA finally turned up the real culprit.  I had a roughly 15 minute discussion with Mr. Joel Mashack, the garage owner in Tamaqua, PA in early March, and learned the REAL truth about what happened in this case.  It's high time that it be made public on this site so that Tahoe Equipment owners are not troubled by the libel, defammation and false innuendo made public here by this ASE Certified Master Technician from Tamaqua PA.

1)  Neither Tahoe Industries nor Tahoe Powerquip had communicated with Joel at the time he purchased this equpment or prior to the time he made his original post on Aug 12, 2011.  He dealt with a Mr. Allen Chudej, a sole proprietor d/b/a "Tahoe Power" on his equipment purchase, and the bill of sale Joel provided confirmed that fact.  Mr. Chudej is an Independent Distributor of power equipment products, and was never an employee  of Tahoe Industries, Inc., nor of Tahoe Powerquip.   Any beef Mr. Mashack had with the "sales presentation" is between himself and Mr. Chudej.  Tahoe Powerquip was simply the manufacturer of the equipment, of which Mr. Chudej was one of many distributors around the country.  Mr. Mashack received a Rigid Shop Vac in the deal... why didn't he also attack home depot / Rigid?  They too were just manufacturers who through their normal sales channels sold a shop vac to Mr. Chudej who offered it with a load of equpment to Mr. Mashack.  

In the header of his posting, Mr. Mashack claims "Tahoe Industries Inc Tahoe Powerquip fabricates stories and lies about resale value", when he had never even communicated with either of these entities about "stories or resale value"  regarding the equipment he purchased, before he purchased it or after.  But then he writes this post as if he had, RECKLESSLY libeling and defaming entities who had no contact with him.  This libelous, defammatory and misleading statement would make any defense attorney squirm.  It makes myself and my firm FURIOUS that we have been publicly fingered and castigated for something we DID NOT DO.  

2)  In his RoR posting from 8/12/11, Mr. Mashack claims to have "posted the items for sale several times" implying that Tahoe Branded Products had been placed by him on an online auction site such as Ebay.  However, during our conversation with Mr. Mashack in early March 2013, he stated emphatically that he had ONLY tried to sell these products by putting them between his garage and the road it's on (Lincoln Dr) in Tamaqua, PA, with a "For Sale" sign by or around them.  This reality is a vastly different "story" from the one Joel told on RoR of "several postings attempts."  Tamaqua, PA.... a small town of less than 7,100 people!  So Mr. Mashack has decided to make his "Side of the Road" sales experiment in Tamaqua PA the LITMUS TEST for whether or not Tahoe Power products have respectable resale values.   Unless Mr. Mashack can now produce online postings receipts / posting numbers which involve the Tahoe Products he mentioned from a reputable online auction site dated prior to his postings, what is the CREDIBILITY of ANY of his claims?  

3)  The next lie Mr. Mashack uttered in that 8/12/11 posting was that "you can buy the same equipment painted different colors with different logos on them on ebay for dirt cheap".  By using the term, "dirt cheap" Mr. Mashack paints the picture of being able to buy "apples-for-apples" equipment on ebay for 50% or less than he paid.  The fact is, you can not buy the FIVE comparably featured competitve products, 3 of which are powered by GX 200 Honda Engines, on Ebay, in like new condition, for ANYTHING CLOSE to what Mr. Mashack paid.  His statement is an affront to truth and prudence, and carries about as much validity as the rest of his claims so far.  Unlike Mr. Mashack, we will now PROVE our case for all the world to see with substantive research on EBAY, and will select the most comparable models, then add or subtract for missing features on either side of the comparison.

A. Tahoe Diesel Generator - 7000 model Digital Control - 418cc engine with 7 gallon tank, remote control start

Pacific Tundra PT 26040 Digital Control Panel 4 gallon tank - $2653 - Add $350 for larger fuel tank and canopy. TOTAL - $3,053.

B. Tahoe Gas Powered Generator - 10000 model - 420cc engine with 8 gallon fuel tank

DuroMax 10000 Watt Portable Gas Electric Start Generator - TOTAL - $999

C. Tahoe Air Compressor - Honda GX200 - 3 cylindered head - 9.5 gallon air tanks 

Mi-T-M 8 Gallon Wheelbarrow Air Compressor 6.5hp Honda Engine #AM1-PH65-08M - TOTAL - $999

D. Tahoe Pressure Washer - Honda GX200 - 2700 PSI - 3GPM throughput - 5 spray nozzles 

New BE 2700 PSI Comet Triplex Pump 6.5 HP Honda GX200 Pressure Washer - TOTAL - $799

E. Tahoe Water Pump - Honda GX200 - 3" in/out, 15,850 GPH, Suction lift 23 ft, Total head 98 ft. 

3"Semi Trash Water Pump by Mi-T-M,Honda Powered,28'Lift,16,560 GPH,Honda Powered = Price - $750.  Add $70, as Mi-T-M's pump only has a Honda GX160.  

TOTAL - $820

GRAND TOTAL- $6,670   

shipping... all the items from the Ebay venders above ship free except the pressure washer - $100  & pump  - $75.

none of the above items come shipped from Ebay venders unboxed, assembled, and oiled.  The Tahoe Diesel Mr. Mashack purchased already had fuel in it.  This is at least another $100 of value added prep, oil and fuel added to the equipment purchased by Mr. Mashack.  This brings the Final Total to $6945, or roughly what Mr. Mashack claims Mr. Chudej asked for the equipment.  But Joel didn't buy the equipment for the $6,900 Mr. Chudej asked... oh no.  He bargained the price all the way down to $4,500, or 35% LOWER than Comparable EBAY sales prices.   Why Mr. Chudej let him have the equipment for that low of a price, I don't know.  Just goes to show NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED.  And oh yeah, Joel got a free Shop Vac thrown in for good measure.

4) Joel adds the finishing touches to his "Drive-by Posting" by stating "The other problem is, nobody trusts the quality of the supposed "Honda" engines because of the proliferation of knockoff units that are such close copies", With this statement, Joel is attempting to raise fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) that people who see our equipment online seem to believe the Honda engines used on Tahoe Equipment may be cheap counterfeits.   And he takes his own swipe at the Honda engines on the equipment by pairing an italicized "supposed" with "Honda" in quotations marks, expressing a cynical skepticism that he attempted to fan into a contagion amongst the readers of his treachery.   

Anyone that doubts the fact that the Honda engines powering Tahoe Equipment are authentic need only call Rich or Joanne at Tru-Power, Honda Engine's West Coast Distributor in Corona CA, and ask them if they supply the Tahoe Companies with Honda engines.  Honda engines found on Tahoe Equipment are authentic and genuine, and made in the same Honda plants that supply every other major Honda OEM in the world.  Honda wouldn't even SELL their engines to Tahoe without testing them on our equpment first, and confirming that they meet engineering specs for vibration, heat and a myriad of other issues.  And because Tahoe Equipment powered by Honda Engines passed these tests, Honda is willing to extend its full 3 year Warranty on any piece of Tahoe Equipment that contains its engine.  

The fact is, the Tahoe Companies have purchased and installed enormous quantities of genuine Honda engines since they entered the power equipment business in 2007, and if they were not genuine Honda engines, Honda would have sued Tahoe into oblivion, taken all its assets in summary judgements, and Tahoe's prinicipals would be in prison serving lengthy jail sentences for dealing in counterfeit merchandise.  Rest assured Honda vehemently defends against this type of affront to its Trademarks, and not one claim of counterfeit engines goes uninvestigated.  The Tahoe Companies have a machine population well over 75,000 in North America, with nearly two-thirds of those powered by Honda Engines.  

It would be more if they made a diesel engine.  And guess how many phone calls we have had from Honda Representatives or Law Enforcement Officials asking us why our firm is implementing counterfeit engines in our equipment?  You guessed it... ZERO.  So Joel, your attempt to plant this seed of doubt into the minds of those that read your post will now be thwarted by the TRUTH stated above, and it should be painfully obvious to those interested in the fracas here that your comments are simply designed to cripple people or companies that in YOUR perception did not give you the deal that you deemed yourself to have deserved.  

In our conversation in early March, you claimed that the Gas Generator had performed well over the past couple of years when you needed a generator during storm outages, and that you had removed the Honda GX200 Engine from the Tahoe Pump to power another piece of power equipment that needed a good engine.  You mentioned you had sold the Tahoe Diesel Generator, but weren't too happy with the price.  You mentioned a problem with the Tahoe Air Compressor, but refused my offer to send the new part that corrects the issue.  I don't recall the status on the Tahoe Pressure Washer.. whether you had sold it or still have it, but I don't recall any complaints.  And to me directly, you didn't question the authenticity of the Honda engines on the Tahoe Equipment.  

I understand that you could have been swept up in the propaganda spouted by Mr. Burton on this and other sites, but it's no excuse for your reprehensible statements in the above posting about our firm and products.  Do you see the error in what you have stated here... and if so, what do you propose to make it right?  Your statements here have caused tremendous damage to the Tahoe Companies' reputation, and to the ongoing sales process of our Distributors, and to every relationship we possess with institutions, vendors, and service providers.  Law Enforcement Agencies around the country have even bought into your lies, libel, defammation and innuendo without a proper investigation, resulting in financial loss and severe injury to the Tahoe Companies and their Distributors and Dealers.  This can and will be proven.  How do you propose to MAKE THIS RIGHT? 

Nothing in that pictured document matches anything here. If you're going to warn people away from complaining against your company then you'd better at least post legitimate information in a rebuttal or you'll keep making it obvious that you're only trying to cover up your crooked business practices by pressuring consumers with threats that they'll be prosecuted. The problem is you can't prosecute someone who is telling the truth.

The truth finally comes out... the first of the conspirators confess!  Let it be known that anyone making false, libelous statements that suggest or insinuate untrue things about Tahoe or their dealings with the company will find themselves in court facing very experienced attorneys prepared to dismantle their charade and secure compensation for damages. 

The truth finally comes out... the first of the conspirators confess!  Let it be known that anyone making false, libelous statements that suggest or insinuate untrue things about Tahoe or their dealings with the company will find themselves in court facing very experienced attorneys prepared to dismantle their charade and secure compensation for damages. 

These guys got me to bite as well. Paid $5000 for the load. PowR-Quip said they're a distributor for Tahoe but when I called them in Albuquerque the phone rings at Tahoe office in Nevada

Salesman said I could return stuff but now they say they never said it.

Watch out for these guys

There's no need to offer a reward for info on who I am, you have my info in your sales records. Since you have my town and state, and there are only 4 garages in this town, it shouldn't take you long to look it up. Good luck trying to prosecute me for anything. I have my own records of all of this, along with three witnesses. In addition to the security camera footage with you showing the price list and calling your "boss" to make sure it was ok to give us such a good "deal". We have HD cameras, so even though there is no sound there's still plenty of evidence.

The fact that you post the same "reward" rebuttal to every negative post about your company speaks for itself though.

As a representative of the company libeled and maligned in this report, I do hereby notify all who read this post that the company libeled in the post to which this post rebuts will pay a $30,000 (thirty thousand U.S. Dollars) reward to the individual who provides positive information leading to the identification, subsequent arrest and conviction of the individual or entity responsible for posting this fake report on this website. 
  
The individual responsible for these postings against the named company is obviously too ignorant to know he has committed 2 felonies... 1) Felony Computer Hacking, and 2) Extortion.  

1) Felony computer hacking charges may be brought against one who violates the terms of use of a website by assuming a false identity and stating lies about an individual or entity that does great harm.  

2) Felony charges of Extortion may be brought against one who publishes or connives at publishing any libel designed to induce another to take steps that would result in a benefit to the party committing the crime of extortion.  

In this case, our firm was threatened to not allow the sales people and drivers of a competing company to work for our firm... and when we ignored their demands, they committed the crime of writing these lies on this site, and posting them in such a way with headers containing our company name resulting in a high rank in Search Engine Results, in an attempt to harm our sales.  Have they been successful in harming our sales?  Yes they have.  Will they be prosecuted to the maximum extent to the law?  Yes they will.  

If you have information that would assist in identifying the perpetrators, Please email our company at TellTahoe@gmail.com.   Those who have already come forward with positive identification of the perpetrators, and those who have already contacted us in the past are invited to contact us again and make their appointment for a deposition.   In the event multiple individual's information and testimony is considered crucial in identifying and convicting the perpetrators, the $30,000 reward will be split based on the proportionate weight of the importance of the information provided in gaining a conviction, along with the witnesses' perceived credibility as a witness.  The order in which testimony was received will also be utilized in determining the split of the reward, so act today and write to TellTahoe@gmail.com, and share your key testimony today!