Reasons To Just Look and NOT Buy Your New Hot Tub at The Home Show!
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Reasons To Just Look and NOT Buy Your New Hot Tub at The Home Show!
March 09/2020

Are you thinking of buying a hot tub, but not sure where to start looking? Is there a Home Show coming to your area soon and you’re thinking about attending? Aqua Palace's Pool and Spa #1 Rule of thumb: LOOK but DON’T BUY at a Home Show! The endless aisles filled with hundreds of people is no place to make an informed decision about a relaxation investment of thousands of dollars. You need to be one on one with a knowledgeable staff member, not surrounded by kids running all over the place and yelling over the hundreds of other noises going on in the same facility.

Hot Tub Buying Tip – Scariest Place To Buy A Hot Tub Is At A Home Show
The invitation that they will give you to test out their spas will only include a dry test soak. In our showroom, we have at least 3 units full of water and ready to wet test at anytime of the day. The seats in the hot tub do not feel the same dry as they do when you are soaking in them. It’s very important to be able to wet test them to insure that you are going to be comfortable in that particular model. This option is something that will not be available for you at a Home Show. If you would make a purchase of a unit they have on display, you would be making a blind decision, because you were unable to fully test it out first. This could be a huge mistake, one that will take away your excitement for hot tubbing and cause you to not want to use it on a regular basis.
The #1 reason that couples do not use their hot tub on a regular basis within 1 year after the purchase date, is because the hot tub does not suite their needs in at least 2 ways or more. It could be that the jets don’t hit the right areas to make a difference, the seat is too deep for your comfort, there is too much pressure, or multiple seats can’t be operated at the same time.

Watch Out for Hot "Deals"!
The “deals” that you see at the Home Shows are usually gimmicks. The “50% Off SALE PRICE” is really an inflated MSRP price. Even with the 50% discount taken off, you usually are still paying more than their regular price on that spa. Why is this? There are two reasons: A Home Show is an impulse buy. If you don’t get it today, the special will be gone and that is how they capture a lot of customers. The second reason you will usually pay more is because they have to make extra money to help pay for their booth space at the show. Unfortunately they can’t be giving you a better deal at the Home Show due to the $4000-$6000 in extra costs that they incur in being there.

A lot of the Home Shows are called “Traveling Circuses”. They are simply companies from out of state that come in to local Home Shows and affiliate themselves with local dealers in the surrounding area. They state that all warranties will be provided thru this dealer, but once the spa has been purchased from them, many customers find out that is not the case. They find that the spa is delivered by an out of town crew that just drops it in their driveway. A company that you can never get back a hold of when you have issues with your spa, or need to have something take care of under warranty.
In the past, Aqua Palace has done Home Shows several times in the last 17 years in business, but you won’t see us or Marquis Spas amongst the chaos anymore because we believe you deserve a better shopping experience.  We don’t believe in the practice of moving the “cattle” or the home owner thru the purchase as quickly as possible, with as little of questions as possible. All vendors use this “move em in and move em out” philosophy, to speed up their sales conversions, especially at a Home Show.

At Aqua Palace, we cannot duplicate what our showroom has to offer at a Home Show. There are so many different models in the Marquis Spa lineup that only bringing a couple spas to the show could never satisfy every couple’s needs that are looking to purchase a spa. We are also a family owned and operated business that prides itself on a relaxed atmosphere. You may ask as many questions as you need as we walk thru the spas from head to toe and demonstrate all of the features that the Marquis Spa brand has to offer. Stop in today and check out our great line of Marquis Spas! We promise we will find the perfect spa for you and at the best prices possible with no gimmicks!

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