| THERE IS NO CONTROL OF TOUR COMPANIES OPERATING IN SAN ANTONIO. NO LICENSE IS NEEDED TO GIVE TOURS AND THERE IS NO CONTROL OVER THE ADVERTISING THEY DO. WHEN THE SAN ANTONIO CITY GOVERNMENT WAS NOTIFIED OF LOCAL TOUR COMPANIES MAKING HUGE FALSE CLAIMS IN THEIR ADVERTISING THEY CAME BACK WITH THIS LEGAL NOTICE. |
| LOOK FOR THIRD PARTY LINKS TO THE TOUR YOU WANT TO GO ON SUPPORTING THEIR CLAIMS OF MEDIA ATTENTION. WE GIVE YOU A DOZEN OF THEM AND THERE ARE MANY MORE OUT THERE THAT WE WILL TRY TO ADD LATER. |
| BUYER BEWARE OF TEXAS LAWS AND WHY WE GET SLANDERED BY THE COMPETITION |
| WHAT THEY ARE BASICALLY SAYING IS THAT IF YOU VISIT SAN ANTONIO THERE IS NO CONSUMER PROTECTION ABOUT TOURS WHO HAVE FALSE CLAIMS IN THEIR ADVERTISING TO LURE YOU INTO THINKING THEY ARE LEGITIMATE, FACTUAL OR POPULAR. TEXAS IS A BUYER BEWARE STATE AND YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO RESEARCH THE CLAIMS OF COMPANIES BEFORE YOU PAY THEM FOR SERVICES. BUT YOU ARE FROM OUT OF TOWN, YOU DO NOT HAVE THE TIME TO RESEARCH SUCH THINGS SO WE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME SHORTCUTS TO FACTS TO PROTECT YOURSELF. |
| IF YOU CAME ACROSS OUR WEB PAGE YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED OTHER WEB PAGES THAT SLANDER US. HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT THIS PERSON WHO SLANDERS US. I AM NOT GOING SLANDER THIS PERSON IN RESPONSE, I AM JUST GOING TO GIVE YOU FACTS SO YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF. THEY CLAIM We have been leading Ghost Hunters through San Antonio's Most Haunted Locations since 1996. Knowledgeable guides, historical accuracy and a Top Notch Reputation is what has put us at the top of San Antonio's Best Entertainment List for the last 3 years. They also claim 30 years of ghost hunting experience! FIRST FRAUD SHORTCUT, GO TO THE SAN ANTONIO BEXAR COUNTY RECORDS WEB PAGE AND GET A FREE ACCOUNT. |
| AFTER CREATING YOUR FREE ACCOUNT GO TO BUSINESS/OWNER AND SEARCH NAMES. TYPE IN MARTIN LEAL. YOU WILL SEE I STARTED DOING GHOST TOURS IN 1997. I REGISTERED ALAMO CITY PARANORMAL AS A GHOST INVESTIGATING COMPANY AND HAUNTINGS HISTORY TOURS FOR OUR TOUR COMPANY. IF YOU TYPE IN THE NAME OF THE PERSON SLANDERING ME OR HIS COMPANY NAME (THE COMPETITOR DOES NOT GIVE YOU HIS FULL NAME IN HIS ADVERTISEMENT TO HINDER YOUR SEARCH SO YOU NEED TO SEARCH THE LAST NAME PLEBAN) JR IS JOHNNY RAY PLEBAN. YOU WILL SEE HE WAS IN THE GLASS BUSINESS IN 1999, THEN HE STARTED DOING HISTORY TOURS (A TOUR CALLED "WALK SAN ANTONIO") IN JANUARY OF 2004. THIS COMPETITOR DID NOT START DOING GHOST TOURS UNTIL NOVEMBER OF 2004. HE EVEN REGISTERED NUMEROUS BUSINESS NAMES SIMILAR TO MINE TO CONFUSE THE PUBLIC. ITS ALL RIGHT THERE FOR YOU TO SEE FOR YOURSELF ON PUBLIC RECORD, NOT A CLAIM I AM MAKING, JUST THE FACTS. |
| SECOND FRAUD SHORTCUT THIS COMPETITOR CLAIMS NUMEROUS ARTICLES IN PUBLICATIONS THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC KNOWS AND TRUSTS. ONE OF THEM IS TEXAS MONTHLY AND YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEARCH THEIR WEB PAGE FOR ARTICLES SO CHECK THIS OUT. GO TO THE LINK BELOW, SEARCH MARTIN LEAL, YOU WILL FIND AN ARTICLE ABOUT ALAMO CITY PARANORMAL, MARTIN LEAL, THE MENGER HOTEL, ETC. NOW CHECK OUT JR, HIS TOUR NAME, WHATEVER AND YOU WILL FIND ARTICLES BUT IF YOU READ THEM YOU WILL NOTICE HE IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLE. THE ARTICLES ARE ABOUT ME BECAUSE HE INTENTIONALLY USES NAMES SIMILAR TO MINE TO HOPE YOU WILL THINK YOU ARE GOING ON MY TOUR. |
| THIRD FRAUD SHORTCUT THE COMPETITOR CLAIMS THE SUPPORT OF LOCAL GHOST HUNTERS THE COMPETITOR CLAIMS "Alamo City Ghost Tours was chosen as the Official Ghost Tour for the Texas Paranormal Round up 2007 and the San Antonio Paranormal Extravaganza 2007" THE COMPETITOR ALSO MENTIONS SUPPORT OF HIS TOURS BY TEXAS MICHELLE AND THE GHOST CHICKS. GHOST CHICKS FIRST TRIED TO DO A CONFERENCE IN SAN ANTONIO CALLED THE SAN ANTONIO PARANORMAL EXTRAVAGANZA BUT COULD NOT SELL ENOUGH TICKETS TO MAKE THE EVENT HAPPEN. THEN TEXAS MICHELLE TRIED TO TAKE UP THE EFFORT AND IT FELL THROUGH TOO. DO A GOOGLE SEARCH OF TEXAS MICHELLE, GHOST CHICKS, THE NAMES OF THEIR CONFERENCES AND YOU WILL SEE THEM ADVERTISING THE CONFERENCES BUT NO INDICATION THAT THE EVENT HAPPENED. TRUE GHOST HUNTERS IN THE AREA ARE THE TARGET CUSTOMERS THAT WILL PAY $50 OR MORE TO ATTEND A CONFERENCE AND I HAVE DONE HALF A DOZEN OF THEM OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS. I HAVE NEVER CANCELLED A CONFERENCE BECAUSE OF A LACK OF INTEREST. THE LAST CONFERENCE I DID HAD 160 PEOPLE SHOW UP AND I WOULD ESTIMATE THAT 75% OF THEM ARE MEMBERS OF LEGITIMATE GHOST HUNTINGS GROUPS IN TEXAS AND SURROUNDING STATES. THE FACT IS THAT EXPERIENCED GHOST HUNTERS IN TEXAS WHO SUPPORT CONFERENCES KNOW THAT TEXAS MICHELLE AND THE GHOST CHICKS ARE AMATEURS. THAT IS WHY THEIR CONFERENCES DID NOT HAPPEN AND THEIR LACK OF PROFESSIONAL GHOST HUNTING KNOWLEDGE IS WHY THEY SUPPORT THE COMPETITOR AGAIN, JUST FACTS YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF, THE COMPETITOR BRAGGING ABOUT THE SUPPORT OF CONFERENCES THAT NOBODY SHOWED UP FOR! |
| MOST PUBLIC LIBRARIES HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO A PERIODICAL SEARCH WHERE YOU CAN LOOK UP ARTICLES. I HAVE YET TO FIND ONE ARTICLE JR CLAIMS TO APPEAR IN. GO TO PUBLISHED IN THE MEDIA TO THE LEFT HERE AND WE HAVE THIRD PARTY LINKS TO JUST A FEW OF THE ARTICLES WE HAVE ABOUT US. |
| Something I just noticed, JR has a link to a group called SAPN as the Texas Michelle reference. If you check out that webpage it does not list a Texas Michelle as a member. |