Hello, I went through the painful process of going to multiple shops, talking with all of the sales reps, then doing about 6-7 hours of research last night. I was in the market for a lower end Caldera Vanto at first but after reading through about 40 pages of relevant posts on here last night I decided to jump up to a higher rung if I could get a good price. The local Marquis dealer showed me the Vector 94L, which I had assumed was out of my price range. They had a deal for $8000 w/ ozone, lifter, steps, delivery, chemicals. So I jumped on it, based on everything I've read this seems to be a great price. I was set to get the Vanto for $6000 with the same extras. I think I made the right decision (I can still change my mind but I like the 94L a lot more at this point.
This forum is a great resource, there wasn't a whole lot of information available online for hot tubs and found most of the responses here to be thoughtful and with value (other than the posts where dealers/sales reps are arguing over silly 'technologies')
thank you