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Hello All,I've been researching spas for a couple of months now and have wet-tested quite a few. It has come down to a couple of choices for me, the Caldera Niagra and the Sundance Optima. I'm leaning more towards the Optima because I love the foot jets and they help keep me in place 'cause I'm short. The Sundance dealer has a used 2006 Optima in very good shape that came back because of some "crazing", I believe he called it, on the shell (small lines). The other service call on this spa was to replace the waterfall knob. They're asking 6K and a 60-day full warranty for the used spa. Any advice on this? Has anyone bought a used tub without any regrets? Should I shell out the big bucks for a new one to get the full warranty? Any help is appreciated.
Hottubber1, thanks for your input. Wish you were nearby so I could visit your showroom to test the Optima You would also get my business.I too think the best selling Sundance model should be available for wet-test. The Hot Springs/Caldera dealer is bending over backwards to fill any tub that I want to wet-test and I would think that one of the 3 Sundance dealers around me would want to do the same...no such luck. I don't want to make a final decision without wet-testing the Optima. I guess I'm just going to have to tell all 3 dealers that I will make my decision when someone can have the Optima available to test. We'll see which of the 3 dealers bends.
8749.00 for an Optima is a ridiculously low price!!