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BullFrogSpasMN:
To those who are dealers...just wondering how your year is going so far and are you confident in product availability for 2021 and are you guys confident you'll have enough product to sell for 2021?  Just curious, we were fortunate enough to pick up (2) new manufacturers and get on order hundreds of spas, but I still have my doubts as to having enough product on order and increased delays in manufacturing....just curious how everyone else is getting along and what are you thoughts for the new year and how are you planning ahead?

Hope you're all getting by, I know a lot of dealers are getting pushed out of the business unfortunately

Hottubguy:
Year has been strong overall on the sales side of things. Availability has been a challenge and I expect that to be the case for all of 2021. For 2021 I don’t think anybody will have enough. I have sizable orders in with both Watkins and Nordic. Caldera side I basically added 20% to what I did this year and ordered all at once at end of June. Have added a number of trucks to my order since. On the Nordic side I typically do about 60+ - of their tubs a year. I have 6 trucks of 20 tub orders with 2021 dates on them. I also sell Marquis. They are a bit more challenging with lead times. Expect to get one more truck from them this year and have a decent amount of there tubs on order for 2021. Have also been dealing with another line that has been filling in the gaps for me. If I get what I am projected to get for 2021 I should be fine. That being said I don’t know how much faith I have in getting what I have on order in by the end of 2021. Hopefully the supply chain improves over the course of the year.

d00nut:
I feel like we are in decent shape if the projects hold.  Of course, I have little faith the projections hold.  What happens if we shut down again?  Good grief...

It's been strong, all year.  I think it will probably continue because we are bound to see another spike... which sucks, but I just don't see us competing with the vacation dollars out there.  I think we got a good foothold.

BullFrogSpasMN:

--- Quote from: Hottubguy on October 02, 2020, 10:38:57 pm ---Year has been strong overall on the sales side of things. Availability has been a challenge and I expect that to be the case for all of 2021. For 2021 I don’t think anybody will have enough. I have sizable orders in with both Watkins and Nordic. Caldera side I basically added 20% to what I did this year and ordered all at once at end of June. Have added a number of trucks to my order since. On the Nordic side I typically do about 60+ - of their tubs a year. I have 6 trucks of 20 tub orders with 2021 dates on them. I also sell Marquis. They are a bit more challenging with lead times. Expect to get one more truck from them this year and have a decent amount of there tubs on order for 2021. Have also been dealing with another line that has been filling in the gaps for me. If I get what I am projected to get for 2021 I should be fine. That being said I don’t know how much faith I have in getting what I have on order in by the end of 2021. Hopefully the supply chain improves over the course of the year.

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Same here on most accounts, the year to date has been incredible/overwhelming...we also do about 60-75 Nordics a year and have probably 50-60 or so on order, but we were late to the game and some of those orders are into late summer/fall of 2021 already.  In the meantime we picked up Wellis and Aspen as well, we've been flirting with both for awhile so we figured now was the time and have around 65 Wellis on order and around 40-50 Aspens + our Bullfrog 'allotment' for the year, for some reason I don't think it will be enough as I agree demand will hopefully stay high through most of 2021 but it's def. nerve wracking laying out that much cash on projections during a  worldwide pandemic but what are the other options? Let's all hope supply chain and labor can 'catch up' a bit and maybe we'll see some of these delays come down around Qtr. 3-4 of 2021 hopefully.  Stay Safe All!

Jag8:
Stock will be challenging for some. I feel eventually the inability to get inventory might be the demise of some smaller dealers. It's already happening, the largest accounts are taking priority from the manufacturers.

Word on the street has it that Sundance / Jaccuzzi added a full production line recently actually shortening lead times in some situations. They are also producing their top end spas with an optional insulation downgrade, in turn for a shorter lead time.

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