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Oh the things some sales guys will say...Was at a Sundance/Jacuzzi dealer yesterday and here is some of things I was told:1. Motomassage uses bearings that wear out after 6 months. Also, it glides along a track that wears out and needs to be replaced too.
2. Hot Spring uses a steel heater and it costs $400 more for the titanium one
3. Hot Spring has a pro-rated warranty with deductibles.
Funny thing is, every time I go to another spa dealer and mention anything about Hot Spring, they whip out a book that shows a comparison between them and a Hot Spring Grandee. Of course theirs always comes out looking better.
It's affirming my decision on selecting the HS Grandee.
Is Grandee beating these other guys up that bad?
The guy also says that Spazazz and other similar products are bad for your tub since they go in the water. He said the Optima uses air injection for aromatherapy. Sounded like something until I got home and looked at the Sundance brochure which states that it uses air to release it INTO the water.
Overall, the only thing I saw about Sundance that was appealing that HS didn't have was the air.
Finally, one of the funniest things was that the sales guy was showing me on the dry tub that you could turn the jets. He said "everytime you turn it, it does something different". I said "like a shower massager shower head?" and he said "Yes". When I tried it on the wet tub I found that it had exactly 2 positions: full stream and and alternating pulsating setting. He had previously made it sound like there were 4 of 5 different things it was going to do. "Everytime you turn it" ... yup from left to right and back.
1. Motomassage uses bearings that wear out after 6 months. Also, it glides along a track that wears out and needs to be replaced too.2. Hot Spring uses a steel heater and it costs $400 more for the titanium one3. Hot Spring has a pro-rated warranty with deductibles.
What's so pathetic about it is the *best* FUD is that which is hard to confirm either way. Stuff like this is too easy to disprove.I mean, if he needs to bash others to sell his wares so be it, but at least be intelligent about it. Although, frankly, if he can only sell sundance by bashing others then sounds like intelligence is not the strong point here!Good luck with your search. The grandee is a terrific tub.-Ed
Chas, I suppose in a Grandee you could put the jets on only on the opposite side of the tub from yourslef to achieve similar results?