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Artesian Opal versus other top spas

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poolboy34:
Kudos to doodoo....couldn't have said it better myself!!!!

kmac:
Hi lwaxman,

I purchased an Artesian Piper Glen from their Platinum line this year.  I have zero experience with the Opal.  However, for me the Piper Glen was the best choice (even after looking at all the "major" brands) and I am extremely satisfied with my choice.   I would not put too much credence on any rating of a spa or manufacturer.  I have not found a review site yet that I feel is unbiased.  You also have to take into account how recent is the review?  This year, last year, 5 years ago when the website was first built?

I do not even put much faith in all the "Consumer Digest" Best this or Best that awards (hype.)    Spend alot of time doing your research and wet test as many spas as you are able.  Rank what features are important to you, create a speadsheet with the features as columns and the and then list the spas as rows.  Assign a numerical value (1 thru 5 works well) for each spa and feature.  Leave price out till the end.  Then make some sort of a stab at ranking them in order (I say stab because even after going thru all this trouble, you will have feelings about this or that brand that can not be quantified.) If price is a motivator, find the spa you like and then contact as many dealers in your area as you can and request a qoute (keep the qoutes on equal footing however.)  If the price doesn't suit you, then go down the list to the second most liked spa.  

Hope this helps.

lwaxman:
kmac - thanks for the input.  A good friend purchased the Artesian Opal after extensive research and wet testing over a few months.  I have just not seen very much discussion or mention of Artesian on this or other message boards so had some concern about this.

whypaymore:
From what I have seen on message boards and such it is the dealers that pretty much run the boards and promote their products, I am not saying this is a bad board, but you do pretty much hear about the top 6 or 8 spa's. Does that make the rest of them that are not talked about bad spas? I think if they have been around for a few years and there were problems with them you whould see information about that on these type of forums.

Look at the top of the page and see what is advertized...

Mendocino101:
You know why pay more.... I said to you I was unaware that you were a slow thinker...Thank you for confirming it for me with this post...Now lets lay open just how really slow you are...."but you do pretty much hear about the top 6 or 8 spa's. So you are saying that the top 6 or 8 makers control this board….hummm that being the case the other top makers who are the competition for each other…actually get together and are in collusion together. Also if the board was censored why are you still here with that river of ignorance flowing out of your mouth with out being edited...? If you actually had any ability to think or look at anything any a objective way you could see that it is an open board with people posting based on there experiences and the majority of those are individual owners...they are some people who do post who are in the industry but most are up front about it and for the most part usually never will say theirs is the only spa to buy.... so again why do you insist and making such false statements that have zero merit..."[..."
--- Quote ---From what I have seen on message boards and such it is the dealers that pretty much run the boards and promote their products, I am not saying this is a bad board, but you do pretty much hear about the top 6 or 8 spa's. Does that make the rest of them that are not talked about bad spas? I think if they have been around for a few years and there were problems with them you whould see information about that on these type of forums.

Look at the top of the page and see what is advertized...
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