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I know all the horror stories of getting pool stored and I have not been a stranger to that.......went to one local pool store that sells Bioguard products and they tried to sell me 2-3 hundred dollars worth of products to fix my already clean, sparkly pool, needless to say I have never gone back there......and going into my local Leslies, I have watched as people who are completely clueless just without a blink of an eye, just buy and buy and buy and never seem to get that sparkly pool that most of us here on TFP have, but never question what the pool store is telling them..........even though this Leslies does that to the clueless people, from day one I have gone in there, they have never tried to sell me products, maybe telling them my water looks awesome and crystal clear kinda throws them for a loop.......hahaha anyways the manager of this store was helping me figure out the right gasket to get for my underwater light that somehow since we had the pool since last October was filled halfway with water, still managed to work and not trip the breaker.......but anyways the light burnt out finally and we took the light apart to go find the replacement bulb and a new gasket as it was falling apart as we took it off...........it must be an older light as he was having a hard time finding the correct gasket and we had no markings on the light just knew it was a Sta-Rite,....anyways he was looking online and thought he found the right gasket, said it would be $25 bux from him, then proceeded to tell me that in his searches, one came up on Amazon for $10 if I wanted to try that in case is was the wrong one.........I thought that was pretty stand up of him.........turns out it was the right gasket we bought on amazon, got it a day and a half after ordering online and now the light is sealed the correct way and working great............about a week later, my husband noticed we had some tiny holes in our new liner by the ladder.......the pressure of the ladder and everyone using the one in the deep end and it being a bit loose, rubbed against the liner and put some holes in it..........we have the vinyl patch kit and fixed the problem, but the patch is clear and the liner is a dark blue, so it sticks out like a sore thumb.......called the company we ordered the liner from to see if they may have any scrap liner pieces to closely match ours to patch over the patch so it blends in better........well they were no help so off we went to Leslies again..........he was so nice, he had some old sample pieces he saved and let us take the piece from the old samples for free and on top of that, he had some new samples for inground pools that he says they never really sell inground liners because most people do not know exact measurements, so he also let us have the one from those new samples for free also.
Just wanted to say there are some honest people out there working at some of these stores. And wanted to acknowledge what a stand up guy he was to me.
Just in my opinion, I think if you go in there with that clueless look, they know they have you from the beginning....if you go in there, knowing exactly what you need, they tend to leave you alone and not try and sell you the store.
Just wanted to say there are some honest people out there working at some of these stores. And wanted to acknowledge what a stand up guy he was to me.
Just in my opinion, I think if you go in there with that clueless look, they know they have you from the beginning....if you go in there, knowing exactly what you need, they tend to leave you alone and not try and sell you the store.