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This should be interesting. I'll either find I'm just like you, or I'll be left with that feeling, "Am I the only one that hears these voices". A little over a week ago I went ahead and purchased a Artesian Piper Glen. So now I've got another 30 days or so until it shows up. The wait in and of itself is not such a bad thing. I still need to get my deck finished, and getting into the tub by late Sept early Oct sounds pretty good. I'm not even really all that impatient to have it now. Whats starting to trouble me is the feeling 'Did I pick the right tub'. Now I should explain something about myself, I'm not much of a shopper. Actually I hate shopping. I love buying new toys, but I want it quick and dirty. Buying fun, shopping bad. In the 'jet pressure for guests' thread Vinny talks of a friend who just walked in, wet tested, asked the price and bought. Thats pretty much where I came from. Actually I went to the HS/Caldera dealer first, thought the Tahitian was basically what I wanted, and started planning the new deck. I started reading up a little on Caldera's site and some of the other forums (hadn't found this one yet) and quickly decided to step up from the Tahitian, to a Hawaiian, to a Niagara. All without any wet testing. After reading these other forums I got the impression I really should go in and wet test, I also ran across some threads about the Piper Glen. After a visit to Artesian site I found that the dealer was only about 15 miles away, so I went and checked it out. A week latter I wet tested it. I had an appointment of sorts to wet test the Caldera the next day but never did. A week or so latter, after I had finalized the plans on my deck, I went in and bought the Piper Glen. End of story. Then I found this forum. Before I bought the tub any mention I saw of the Piper Glen was pretty positive, but now that the deal is done, and I'm digging back in the archives, I'm finding some things that have me second guessing myself. Nothing major, just minor little nit picks, like the power of the foot jets, not really being all that great. And it's certainly not a feeling like I bought something I'm going to regret, just a little unease, which I'm sure will disappear as soon as I actually have the tub. I'm kind of amazed at the threads that have been posted by duffman and others. Talk of spending months on the decision and wet testing 5 or 6 tubs, some of them more then once. Obviously folks who can handle shopping much better then I. Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking doing it this way. Makes a lot of sense, but I guess I'm just not wired that way, although I have enjoyed reading of others continuing saga. Now here's the question, how many of you have had doubts like these during the WAIT. I'm not talking buyers remorse, because I'm certainly not feeling that. Just more of a maybe I should have looked around some more feeling. Then again I've never done that before, not with cars not with big screen TV's , not with homes, not even with girl friends. Always kinda saw what I wanted and went for it without much consideration of the options. It's lead to some let downs, particularly with gf's,but for the most part I'm perfectly happy in the end. I'm interested to hear if others, particularly those who had a long and winding road to the perfect tub go through this doubt during the WAIT.