Converting others to TFP

[LaurenB]

I was at Leslie’s returning a giant bag of DE I didn’t need (turns out I just needed a small bag of patience). While the employee struggled to look up my account, I overheard the other employee explaining a customer’s test results. Evidently this person’s water was “still cloudy” after overdosing with clarifier. The pool store advice? More clarifier. The customer mentioned that the bottle said putting in too much can make cloudiness worse, and the pool store employee informed her that all clarifiers are not the same so maybe a different (more expensive one), or perhaps she could try a floc agent. Also; throw in 10lbs of alkalinity up (which btw is $32.99 … I ran over to the shelf to see lol).

I wanted to help this lady. I remember the days of being pool stored. I scribbled troublefreepool.com on a piece of paper and tried to give it to her stealthily in between the aisles of potion buckets. “Have you ever heard of this website? I think it will help. And please don’t put any more clarifier in your pool.” But I may be a tad socially awkward? She seemed to think maybe I was trying to sell her something.

I looked at the line of people checking out with their enormous drums of tablets and pucks and god knows what else and I just wanted to save them all. How do you convert people to TFP in public?

 

[ajw22]

Do you also like to walk into the local bars and save all the drunks ?

You don’t.

Wait until they show up at AA

 

[dfwnoob]

Last time I was in PAP (probably a year ago now), I overheard a customer telling the kid working there "it's so hot here in Texas, it would be great if someone made a way to cool the water, like a reverse heater!" The kid was like "yeah bro that'd be cool". I turn to him and go "well they do make heat pumps and chillers.."

Guy working at the store literally had no idea some heat pumps could run reversed and had never heard of any way to cool the water.

I feel for people who rely on pool stores for their chemistry and I'm extremely thankful I found TFP before I closed on my house.

 

[proavia]

When friends and neighbors see my gin clear pool water they ask how I do it. I provide the TFP website address and suggest they visit it and look thru Pool Care Basics.
That is usually as far as I go.
One or two have embraced the TFP method with great success. Others try to mix TFP and PS methods - with poor results.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.

Since I don't go to pool stores, I haven't had to struggle with trying to save anyone from parting with their hard earned money.

 

[kimkats]

I have some TFP cards that I pass out if I see someone in a box store by the pool stuff. I don't know if anyone has visited the site but at least I tried.

 

[LoneWolfArcher]

I have told other pool owners about TFP. Some go glass eyed. Others are not interested as soon as I say stop using stabilized chlorine. Others go to the site, come back to me and say they don't understand any of it.

It is definitely frustrating.