How far away from you is your dealer?

[wmccall]

For those of you who are still shopping, vote if you would or would not visit a dealer more than 40 miles away.

[loosenupspas]

My manufacturer believes that 25 miles is the fartherest distance a person will drive to purchase a hot tub.  So retail stores are not closer than 25 miles, seems fair enough.  At home shows distance is irrelevant, it doesn't seem to matter to the buyer.  People at home shows expect you to travel the distances required to do whatever it takes to keep them happy.  hope that helps.....but it is a 8k dollar investment.......be happy and if that takes traveling that is what it takes....tom...come see us at the Orlando Home Show this weekend.....a reasonable trip charge will apply to buyers in other states......good day

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

So retail stores are not closer than 25 miles, seems fair enough.  

That would put a dealer no further than 12-1/2 miles away  

[Zep]

My Cal Spa dealer is about 22 miles away from my house.

http://www.calspas.com/press/hot_tub_and_spa_award~pool_and_spa~5331.htm

[Spatech_tuo]

That would put a dealer no further than 12-1/2 miles away  

That is assuming you lie in the line directly between the 2 stores which are 25 miles apart; you are thinking one dimensionally.  
 
If you created a grid and placed a store every 25 miles in both the X and Y direction you could live in the center between 4 stores and you would be 17.7 miles away from each of them.

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

Are you doing that grid 2 dimensionally, or or your taking into account topography?

You're also, I believe laying out the stores in a square pattern, 25 miles apart. If you lay them out in a triangular pattern, you'd then have all customers even closer than 12-1/2 miles, and still the stores would be 25 miles apart.

[East_TX_Spa]

Mine is 7 miles as the buzzard glides.

Term

[Spatech_tuo]

Are you doing that grid 2 dimensionally, or or your taking into account topography?

You're also, I believe laying out the stores in a square pattern, 25 miles apart. If you lay them out in a triangular pattern, you'd then have all customers even closer than 12-1/2 miles, and still the stores would be 25 miles apart.

I was obviously laying out stores in Kansas where it's flat and everything is on a square grid!! I just layed it out on a triangular grid with stores 25 miles apart at the end points of an equilateral and you can be 17.7 miles away from the closest store.

[Chad]

12, 15, 25, and 40 miles. They have 4 locations. 8-)

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

Kansas? Is there a population large enough to support more than 2 stores there (even if you count Toto)? I was working with equilateral triangles and the hills of northern California.

[D.P. Roberts]

Bill, you're a mind reader. I was going to start this exact same poll today.

I just read a web site for a dealer that "guaranteed the best price within a 300 square mile area". A little high school geometry says that their area means "within 10 miles of our store". Considering that few manufacturers have competing dealers within 10 miles of each other, I think they're safe.

[water@104]

from my house to the dealer would take me about 46 hours to get there. NH to WA. it's about 3200 miles

[Tyheethan]

My dealer is alllllllllll the way across town.  Which is about 2.5 miles.  

[loosenupspas]

sorry...it is a radial 25 miles.......good day

[D.P. Roberts]

My manufacturer believes that 25 miles is the fartherest distance a person will drive to purchase a hot tub.  So retail stores are not closer than 25 miles, seems fair enough.  

Do most manufacturers have a limit like this?

I'm just curious because most of the major brands (the Watkins brands, and Jacuzzi/Sundance) are on the same street, in a city 22 miles from me that's in another county. I'm curious as to whether any of these brands would let me open a store.