General > Beating a dead horse
By-pass Filtration
socal:
--- Quote ---Dang, I stopped looking at this thread and it turned into a good one. There's nothing like a good old fashioned crowd stoning an outcast. ;) ;D
--- End quote ---
i was thinking the same thing.
could you be so kind as to pass me 1 of those stones please? ;D
Snowbird:
Okay.... you two guys behave or Brooke is going to send you to your rooms for a time out.
I am not a dealer and I own a Jacuzzi. At no time have I ever felt left out, discriminated against or slighted by anyone on this forum. After all, I have the same ability to brag about my spa as they do.
This forum is about helping each other, having a good time, and open discussion. So be nice; life is short.
I have, on occasion, taken exception to posts here, but that has only happened when people prove they are acting like the south end of a north bound horse.
So, rick & pkud, you might want to check your direction. ;D
Spatech_tuo:
--- Quote ---I would like to know what has happened to rick to make him so hateful of HS. Me thinks there is something underlying all this vitriol.
--- End quote ---
I wondered the same thing when he went off last week and searching back I think it started with the thread below, in particular it was a post within ithe thread made by Drifter (Apr 21st, 2005, 11:36pm) which set Rick off (I think it was the ford vs Mercedes comparison). Rick came unwound and apparently has been holding it inside until erupting again this past week.
http://www.whatsthebest-hottub.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=wtb-hottub;action=display;num=1114115060;start=0
socal:
spatech
i just read that link.....sounds like an implosion to me..... didnt see wht/why made it happen though. guess nobody mentioned the fact that there are people out there that like fords and hate mercedes.......oh well, to each their own.
speaking of which...its almost time for some green beer ;D
rick:
"I would like to know what has happened to rick to make him so hateful of HS. Me thinks there is something underlying all this vitriol. "
I don't hate Hot Springs. I just use them as an example of bias that runs rampant here.
When I shopped, I stopped at the local Energy House, (Hotsprings dealer), and after waiting 45 minutes to even be acknowledged by their dealer, I nearly fainted from price shock and their unwillingness to budge, as well as their cocky attitude that yes, even you Terminator, portrayed in this thread.
( I was a "ready to buy" shopper that day, and they knew it too).
I also shopped Jacuzzi, (talk about a dealer who's biggest selling point is to trash other spas), Marquis (whole selling point is that the company is owned by it's employees, so what?), D1, (another case of sticker shock), and of course everybody's favorite, Calspa, (talk about the stereotype of a used car dealer, had to buy right now or sales price goes away).
So I was a bit disenchanted after a couple of days of this. I had currently owned an old CalSpa (came with the house) that was falling apart at the seams, had a leak that I could get noone, and I mean noone, who wanted to come out and repair it. Some tech, over the phone, suggested poking sticks in the foam to find the leak. That was when I first opened the cabinetry of my spa and knew right then and there I would not succeed in finding this leak. This spa was chock full of foam. It wasn't uniform either, it was stuffed with chunks and pieces of foam "mishmash".
So eventually, the wood frame morphed into rotten wet wood and the leak was so bad, I was losing a foot of water a day.
Then I walked into a Coleman dealer and looked at his wares. I was immediately impressed with the TP design and galvalume frame, also the assurance that my energy bill would be affected negligibly. The price was also much more agreeably than a similarly sized HS, D1, Marquis or Jacuzzi. I probably could have haggled a better price, but the guy threw in all the extras and even offered to come take the CalSpa away to the trashheap. (they had to get a big circle saw and cut it into pieces as the frame had "glued" itself to the concrete. It took 2 guys a full day to get it out of there.
So you can see my trepidation for getting another spa whose inherent design makes it difficult to track a possible leak. Not the case with a Coleman, you can see and access everything easily. Sure, theres some foam sprayed on the shell and around pipe fittings, but if a leak ever sprouted, even I could identify it in a flash.
Then I come onto this website, to revel and share thoughts on spa ownership, only to have my spa dissed as an inferior spa compared to the biggies, (all FF).
My spa is not as energy efficient, my spa will actually leak before a FF spa, my frame is weak and not as good as pressure treated wood, my pumps are going to burn up in all that ambient heat, my brand is not even owned by Coleman anymore so their (MAXX)quality must obviously be worse. You name it , it's been preached here by numerous people as to actually make a reader believe it all to be true.
To be continued......
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version