Status of Everything Attachments

[Rich_Z]

My credit card company requires filling out a form and mailing it to them to properly file a claim for a disputed payment. I mailed that off over the weekend. Since I placed the charge back in September, 2023, I am not really expecting them to do anything. Would be nice, but not holding my breath.

In the meantime, I have to decide what to do. I really need to have a grapple for my tractor. Do I wait it out to see if EA pulls through this, or just go ahead and bite the bullet and order another grapple from another supplier. I sure as heck don't need two grapples, so it would be pretty awkward if I order another grapple from someone else, then get a notice from EA that the grapple I ordered from them is ready to ship. Yeah, probably being really overly optimistic, but I am a firm believer in Murphy's Law.

 

[Torvy]

What size? If you end up with two, maybe I'd help take it off of your hands.

 

[airbiscuit]

From Mansion Global
Glass-and-Steel Lakehouse in North Carolina Lists for Nearly $5.5 Million

When Ted Corriher was a child, he spent summers on Lake Norman, in Terrell, North Carolina, with his parents, who had a lakehouse built in the mid-1970s using 14 8-foot-tall sliding glass doors, a relatively new invention at the time.

“There were just enough wood columns to hold them up,” Mr. Corriher told Mansion Global. “I got so used to the views and being two feet from the water.”

So, when he and his wife, Beverly, went to build a new house in the same location, they decided to construct the entire thing out of glass.

“There was no other way to do the property justice,” said Mr. Corriher, the 57-year-old founder of Everything Attachments, a company that specializes in equipment from snow plows to cement mixers for tractors, excavators and other construction machinery.

The 6,500-square-foot home, which includes 153 panes of glass, is now on the market for $5.495 million. There are far-reaching views of the lake from everywhere in the home, but the vistas from the third floor are particularly striking, according to listing agent Mike Toste of Southern Homes of the Carolinas.

 

[Jstpssng]

You understand that is the normal way business works, right? You pay for anything you buy online when it's ordered, not when it ships. Very few exceptions to that rule of thumb. Dealerships will order something, but you are paying them a premium for the privilege. Usually have to put money down, too.

Generally it already has been made, and just needs to get into the pipeline to be shipped. They don't put the money into their bank account while your order sits in que for a couple of months.

I did put a deposit on my sawmill 4 years ago, but didn't have to pay for the rest until 6 months later when it was sitting in the dealer's warehouse.

 

[Jstpssng]

The house is a red herring. For all you know his wife was loaded. The business has been going long enough that some of it was probably left to him. I don't begrudge someone spending their money or earning a profit.

The issue is the contractor and did he or didn't he fail to build. Had it been built as promised, production picks up and lead times drop. We won't find out until the court case is settled. Probably years from now.

It is very hard to grow a business at a pace that you want. The troubles boosted demand and any of us who tried to build during that time know how hard it was to find contractors and/or decent prices. Pretty easy to sit back and criticize. Some companies just say, sorry, out of stock. I don't know this guy. Don't know what was in his heart.

Even a CEO gets a paycheck, which they can spend on things such as garish houses if that's what they want. Siphoning money out of the business otoh is illegal, unless you are the sole proprieter.

 

[Muhammad]

At this point we're seeing a lot of the same opinions and articles being rehashed in this thread plus a lot of pretty far out there stuff and speculation. Let's try to limit the commentary to facts rather than pure speculation and hypothetical scenarios.

 

[Rich_Z]

I sure wish we had more *facts* to go on. But the source of the facts we likely want to hear the most is not being very forthcoming.

 

[Jstpssng]

I sure wish we had more *facts* to go on. But the source of the facts we likely want to hear the most is not being very forthcoming.

As somebody else pointed out, if there are court proceedings their lawyer is advising them to remain quiet. Considering how often they were on here previously, I suspect that is the case.

 

[ultrarunner]

We need a TBN in the field investigative reporter...

 

[deezler]

How do you know that for a FACT? What happens when you actually enter a CC number for a purchase and hit "Complete transaction"?

No, I was not going to find out. I jokingly asked if someone else would be brave enough to (and then of course cancel the CC charge afterwards).

But in my experience, when a merchant website lets you proceed all the way to the 3rd party payment page, thats not where the transaction stops. You have to make the items unavailable for purchase. If you get all the way to the 3rd party checkout/payment, the charge will go through.

 

[deezler]

The house is a red herring. For all you know his wife was loaded. The business has been going long enough that some of it was probably left to him. I don't begrudge someone spending their money or earning a profit.

The issue is the contractor and did he or didn't he fail to build. Had it been built as promised, production picks up and lead times drop. We won't find out until the court case is settled. Probably years from now.

It is very hard to grow a business at a pace that you want. The troubles boosted demand and any of us who tried to build during that time know how hard it was to find contractors and/or decent prices. Pretty easy to sit back and criticize. Some companies just say, sorry, out of stock. I don't know this guy. Don't know what was in his heart.

You're right. I got a little too fired up about this yesterday and my language choices were a bit inflammatory.

I just hate seeing good hard-working people pay for items they'll never receive. Again, EA could easily put a notice on their website, and prevent people from attempting to check out and pay for things. But they haven't.

 

[deezler]

Hickory contractor denies wrongdoing in factory dispute, seeks $1.9 million in liens against Conover company

Hickory-based contractor Neill Grading & Construction Co. is asking the courts to enforce $1.9 million in liens against Conover-based manufacturer Everything Attachments.

hickoryrecord.com

paywalled. Can anyone summarize the allegations and current situation?

 

[LittleBill21]

Folks, maybe speculating a bit, but if they shutdown and have no money, they may simply not be paying the IT guy to adjust or turn off the website, its actually pretty common, he may have already been fired. Not saying its right, but other people may simply not know how to do it.

 

[deezler]

I don't see EA recovering from this as too many customers will not want to risk money billed immediately to wait months for a delivery. That ship has sailed.

Eh. Maybe a new business name, new website, new round of paid advertising on all the top forums, and the money will start flowing in again. They have good products, that people want!

 

[Yander]

For those that don't know, I work for a large heavy truck dealership.

I know salesmen who would skip their mothers own funeral to contact a customer. Especially if they know it's going to make or break a sale.
The bosses over those salesmen would go apocalyptic if word got to them that a customer was having trouble reaching a salesman that had worked on a deal with them.

It's okay to have problems, or run into issues. The lack of communication, even if it's a simple "We've run into some difficulties we can't discuss, however we are still working on getting equipment out to those who ordered it." was the final straw for me to turn the matter over to my CC company.

Again, I hope I'm just being a nervous nelly and EA comes back stronger than ever. However it doesn't look like that's the case.

I just changed trash companies. Not because they failed to pick up trash for two weeks but because they we had no communication as to why. They lost me and the MIL due to no comm. Things happen in business but not communicating anything to customers is a no-go.

I will NEVER buy from EA after seeing how they are treating paying customers.

 

[Yander]

Unless you know, you don't know. To me EA gets the benefit of the doubt until they don't. Everyone I've heard about who actually has their products seems impressed. You don't know the local politics either. Maybe the contractor has friends that are helping to pressure EA to cave in and pay them despite the problems. Maybe Ted irritated some in the county. Lien holders and governments will try to jump ahead if they sniff BK because they want to get PIF. Cash flow does dry up when you are forced to cease planned operations due to others. That is why you have a lawsuit pending. Lawyers often recommend C11 BK to get around some of this stuff.

Nah, too late!

Make all the excuses for them you like, other companies make good products too.

 

[rockinbbar]

Folks, maybe speculating a bit, but if they shutdown and have no money, they may simply not be paying the IT guy to adjust or turn off the website, its actually pretty common, he may have already been fired. Not saying its right, but other people may simply not know how to do it.

Well that sure wouldn't stop them from telling people on their Facebook page not to order anything, or for that matter, as the owner of the webpage contact the web host to shut the internet sales site down.

 

[LouNY]

Damn this dead horse is getting beat on so much it is unbelievable. People coming out of the woodwork to beat at a company when it's having a problem that most of the loudest complainers would not have dealt with when they were flying high.
Little solid information, lots of speculation and rumor mongering, taking little bits of information without looking at the age of the information and jumping to conclusions.
I'd like to quit watching this thread but then it might actually have some solid factual information show up.

 

[ultrarunner]

I just changed trash companies. Not because they failed to pick up trash for two weeks but because they we had no communication as to why. They lost me and the MIL due to no comm. Things happen in business but not communicating anything to customers is a no-go.

I will NEVER by from EA after seeing how they are treating paying customers.

You can do that?

Here if the waste management not paid the city pays and then liens the property.

No TBN members located in EA town?

 

[tractorguy32]

I was an employee there for several years, and I want to explain what's really happened to EA in hopes of ending the widespread speculation on this forum. The owner was not paying bills, including carrier/shipping debt (175k to FedEx alone several months ago), third party vendors, taxes, etc. In some cases a customer would request a refund because the wait was longer than initially projected, but our manager would tell us "we really don't have enough in the account for a refund currently". While EA manufactures quality attachments, Ted/Nate were absolutely using money from new orders to cover material costs for older orders. A previous post mentioned the "rob Peter to pay Paul" business strategy, and that is absolutely what was taking place at EA. In addition, some of that money was wasted on non-work related projects like a new Tesla and dock parties at the glass house. We had multiple welders spend close to a year at his glass house on the lake, doing renovations and updates instead. We suggested advising a more accurate lead time (5-6 months, instead of 3-4 months which is what we were telling folks), and Ted's response was "they won't buy if the lead time is too long!". Ted's excessive and wasteful spending is the biggest contributor to EA's downfall. If you have an order in, get your money back if you still can. EA was little more than a glorified Ponzi scheme at the end of its lifetime.