Ohio State Fair 2009

[wmccall]

There were 3 hot tub companies at the fair this year, up 2 from last year.  The repeat was a semi-local company that sells on the internet. One of the new ones was MAXX.  They are the old Colman right?  Last was Master Spa advertising their Factory Direct booth.  I have to check, they may no longer have a local company, I thought I heard the pool company that picked them up after their 25 year dealer dropped them , also dropped them.  Through all the marketing BS, i did see a couple of tubs I liked the layout of, they were my second choice back in 2003.

[wmccall]

I'm right, the local pool company is no longer representing Master.  I went to their site, and had to give my info to get a ficticious address.  The address is listed as East 17th St, which doesn't exist, we have East 17th Ave and South 17th Ave.  If I guess they made a mistake and meant East 17th Ave the address just happens to be the Ohio State Fairgrounds, which I guess for this week is true, it also lists the poolandspashow.com. I'll have to check to see if that gets updated when the fair goes away next week.

[wmccall]

Oh, yea, at all 3 dealers, exactly 75% of the tubs on the floor were marked, "Sold to the XXX family" I guess we are well on our way to economic recovery 

[Jacuzzi Jim]

 We start setting up for the fair next week, as far as I know there will be Jacuzzi,Sundance,Marquis and D1
the HS boys decided not to go from what I have heard.  They also just let one of their sales guys go for lack of work from he told me, as he is looking for a job now.