This is what I posted in the other thread:
It is true. Our products (when our company was named Aquasave, Inc) were in Home Depot stores in Arizona, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Las Vegas, as well as in local (AZ) Fry's Food, Safeway, and Ace Hardware stores in the early 90's. Purchasing agents come and go, and they soon realized that our products were saving pool owners too much money. Aquasave users (the Sunken Treasure hadn't come along yet) were no longer buying liquid chlorine, shock, algaecide, pH balancers, etc. Bigwigs like HTH and Pace weren't happy. I'll let you figure out the rest.
Anyway, big box stores like Walmart and pool supply stores don't want to carry our products. When a small bucket of tabs cost $57 at Walmart, they don't want pool owners buying FEWER tablets. And because the Sunken Treasure chlorinates your pool from the bottom-up, shock is no longer needed. Your floater-chlorinated pool has little to no chlorine at the bottom. That's why you have to regularly use shock. Don't believe me? Dive down to the bottom of your pool with your test kit (your thumbs plugging it until you fill it up with water from the bottom) and see what kind of chlorine readings you get.
It really is a no-brainer product. An elegant solution on so many levels. It only costs $20 plus shipping (which isn't much more than a cheap floater), but you will realize immediate savings in tablets and shock, you will enjoy a healthier swim, and the Sunken Treasure will last 5 to 10 times longer than a floater because it is made with a superior polymer and isn't getting damaged by the sun.
We really only started advertising for the Sunken Treasure in 2010 on local radio. That's probably why few people have heard of it.
Thanks.