Integrity

Do you have a light in the spa?

Does anyone know why San Juan Fiberglass Pools is having so many issues with dealer support and iridium color issues? I am strongly considering another manufacturer after many loyal years with them. I have talked to many dealers here in the Midwest who have had it. Damaged pools, twisted pools, gel coat failures, outrageous transportation cost and pretty much arrogance at the regional rep. level and corporate level to the extent that “you should be grateful for selling our junk” attitude. They remind me a lot lately of IBM in the 70’s. They thought they had it all, and then they found out they were hardly even relevant in the industry they once dominated.

Waterbear. I can understand. I will be following the site now that I have found it. Not much activity though.

Waterbear, I am actually a San Juan Dealer, I was just tired or hearing the same old BS over and over that's all. No axe to grind here, just the facts. San Juan is a decent pool and they offer good innovation to the industry. You will see more of me now, just found the forum recently. You seem to think I have an agenda, well for the record I do not.

My point was to bring to attention the lie that San Juan places on there website, that George Sullivan founded the company and somehow invented the fiberglass pool. It's an issue that goes to credibility of facts. That continues to be there story line over and over again. If they lie about this, what else would they lie about"............

I was doing some research into the claim that George Sullivan founded the company in 1958 What a bunch of baloney. Turns out that the facts are this, 1958 Robert and Mary Ann Stark formed the company and started making fiberglass pools. In 1968, Starks entered into a partnership with Ervin Parent and Edgar Harmon and continued making fiberglass pools. George Sullivan gets involved around 1975 some 17 years after. It is somewhat unclear on those details, but the notion that George Sullivan was the founder of San Juan Pools is an outright lie. Sullivan's first patent for a fiberglass pool was not until 1982. So for all those out there who thought The elder Sullivan was the pioneer, you are sadley mistaken