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Stevo:
Does anyone out there know how much I should expect to spend on a Master Spa 8.2 Twilight hot tub.

Tman122:
It should cost less than a well made, long lasting, energy efficient model from one of the better manufacturers. And theres a lot of them out there.

Spatech_tuo:

--- Quote from: Stevo on January 08, 2017, 06:54:09 pm ---Does anyone out there know how much I should expect to spend on a Master Spa 8.2 Twilight hot tub.

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You'll probably find the pros here will advise you rethink the manufacturer you're considering. There is no consensus as to who is best and there doesn't need to be because there are multiple good choices you can make but Master is not considered to be one of them.

wmccall:

--- Quote from: Stevo on January 08, 2017, 06:54:09 pm ---Does anyone out there know how much I should expect to spend on a Master Spa 8.2 Twilight hot tub.

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Welcome to the forum.  I haven't been pricing tubs for 4 years now and at that time we didn't have a Master dealer in town.   I've seen your replies so far and while the company is not fond of here for some of their marketing practices, the tubs themselves don't appear to be any worse that many of the middle of the road  manufacturers.  Certainly no worse in many respects than my first Dynasty tub I bought in 2003. In fairness, I did get 10 years of use out of that one, I just wasn't a fan of the company there either.

Good luck with whatever you choose and we will enjoy hearing about it.

bud16415:
Being just a consumer myself and having gone thru the hot tub selection process for the first time just a couple years ago, I spent countless hours trying to figure out what I wanted to buy myself. Tubs are a bit different than other big dollar purchases because many times the inferior products looks and acts just like the quality product. It is all sealed up in a pretty case and what makes it good or bad is hidden away. Add in every single tub I looked at I was told was the best in the market place by who was selling them and if I bought right then and there I would get the show pricing that was significantly lower than the sticker price in some cases.

I ended up with a Watkins tub that I feel is pretty good quality but I saw quite a few that looked every bit as good for a fraction of the price. Even my dealer when I asked to look under the hood said that was an odd request and not really anything to see except some pumps and pipes and showed me a few pictures in a catalog of the guts of my tub and talked a lot about the strong motors etc. the first time I actually looked behind the cover was when I was doing my own install and I removed the cover myself. I can honestly say even though my tub is in the upper level of what would be called high quality I wasn’t overly impressed with what I saw as the build quality or the construction.

There is IMO a bigger leap of faith in buying a hot tub than a car. There is a bit more to see in a car, we have more people around us advising on buying a car and most of us have been around cars our whole life and have an opinion when driving one what makes a good car good. After owning my first tub now for a couple years I think I know exactly what to look for next time and I feel I did pretty well selecting the tub I did.

I really didn’t look at any Master Spas that I know of but I could have as I looked at quite a few at home shows that I don’t remember the names of. I just reviewed their web site and from the information there it looks like it could be a quality tub.

Could the more knowledgeable tell us what makes it a not so good tub? And more importantly what to look out for that could alert us to a not so good tub that looks just fine from the outside?   

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