Hi everyone ! It’s Jeff from Poolandspa.com with
the Holiday Edition of our
brand new, freshly re-designed, Online Recession Busters Newsletter!
I hope that you enjoyed your swimming pool this year, but
the Winter Season is here and it is time
to close down the pool for the winter. The
time goes by so fast, doesn't it? For many hot tub
spa owners though, the colder, crisp air is a
welcome relief and signals the official start of the
Fall / Winter hot tubbing season.
Read our
Recession Busters Newsletter below for some
great pool & spa news stories, How-To articles
and videos, and some terrific new
products too!
And as always, if you ever need some advice,
feel free to give us a call anytime (800-876-7647). We are there to help.
We look forward to serving all your pool and spa needs. Remember, if you ever wish to stop receiving the email
notifications for our
Online Newsletter, simply email to
remove@poolandspa.com.
Best wishes to all our valued customers and web site visitors!
Happy swimming & tubbing ;o)
Take a look at our Holiday
Gift Center to pick up those gifts for the pool or spa lover on
your gift list.
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Poolandspa.TV
filmed their new web TV show "How Do They Make A
Hot Tub Spa ?" at the
Artesian Spas manufacturing plant in Las Vegas in August. The new
state of the art facility is one of the most high-tech spa
production plants in the world. With the popularity of the
"How It's Made"-type TV shows on cable television now, Poolandspa.TV
had received many requests by consumers to make a video showing
exactly how a portable spa is made. The 16 minute show will be
featured on the Poolandspa.TV web site, on the Poolandspa.com Spa
Buyer's Guide web page, on YouTube, available as a DVD and on numerous other How-To web
sites.
Due to a new order fulfillment system, increased sales
volume, and the addition of a few more warehouses across the
country, all of our Poolandspa.com prices have been
tremendously slashed - most are a full 50% off retail. At Poolandspa.com we have all the
covers and supplies that you will need to properly close
down your pool or spa for the season - and the chemicals, parts and accessories you will need
if you are a winter-time hot tubber. And to help with
people's tighter budgets, we have reduced many of our prices to near
wholesale levels.
Click
here to visit our online store now.
One of our most popular sections of our web site used to
be the Clearance Spa Cover page. Unfortunately,
this whole system broke down about a year ago and we
were unable to track and post any overstock or returned
spa covers. Of course this lead to a huge pile of
spa covers in our warehouse that we have to sell off
cheap.
Take a look at the new list on this page to see if any
of these covers happen to match the size of your spa.
You can usually save about a $100 bucks off if you can
find a match. We include shipping and handling on all
clearance spa covers. Good luck in finding yours.
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Ever see an elephant walk on a pool cover? Is your pool cover
this strong? Take a look at this great video by Loop Loc Safety Pool
Covers and learn about how these are the strongest and best pool
covers money can buy. Watch Bubbles get interviewed by a
reporter, and then finally watch the original footage of him walking
on a REAL Loop Loc pool cover.
This is it ! Are
you looking for low cost bargains ? Then you should take a look
at our current Pool & Spa Product Clearance
items on these pages. Many of these are leftovers, overstocks or
return items and they are DIRT CHEAP. Priced to move
IMMEDIATELY - up to 90% off! Many of the photos you'll see were
just taken recently and are the actual boxes and/or products you
will receive. Many of these items are returns - people buying
the wrong thing. This stuff is CHEAP and all are GREAT
BARGAINS. All items are guaranteed to work. Keep checking back to that page over the next
few days because new items are being added constantly.
All our Spa Covers now include
FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the contiguous USA states.
While other sites are raising the prices of their covers and the shipping,
our prices are actually GOING DOWN! So order your spa cover now to get in on these
great prices!
Plus, we just released our new How-To video, How To Measure
A Spa Cover For Replacement . Take a look at it and hopefully it
will make ordering and measuring for a new cover easy! We also
just did a 10 minute Product Review of Prestige Spas Covers that
shows, in detail, all the quality features of their covers in
comparison to others (see below).
Check out our newly redesigned
Spa Cover Center.
Due to popular demand, we will now
be offering worldwide shipping on selected products that we sell. Most
parts are available for International ordering, and most chemicals are not.
When placing your order, please be
aware that there is a $75.00US minimum for orders and you must be able to communicate in English, both
verbally over the phone and in emails. Due to a tremendous increase in credit
card fraud worldwide, we will only be able to accept Certified Bank Checks,
International Money Orders, American Express Travelers Checks (in US Funds),
PayPal or
bank wire transfers. We prefer bank wire transfers to save time, but the
other payment methods are acceptable too.
Click here to get to our
special International Product Order Form for more details and information.
While the recession seems to
be in full swing, and the new installation business for swimming
pools is still most certainly down, the sales of new hot tub spas is
steadily creeping up. Ask any spa dealer and he will tell you
that this has been a bad year, but the fact is that people are still
buying new hot tubs all around the country - and sales of spas in
Europe are actually up quite a bit this year. If
you can afford it, and are thinking about
buying a new spa, THIS IS DEFINITELY THE TIME TO BUY! You
will never see deals like this again. Many of the spa
dealers are offering tremendous deals, bargains and incentives in
order to fill their installation schedules and keep their employees
busy. If you have some
money saved up, or you do have access to the very low interest rates
being offered by some banks, you could save thousands of dollars by
purchasing your spa now, while the market is still down. Although
Poolandspa.com does not sell pools or spas, our site is a great
resource for you to do your research before purchasing.
Our web site has been around
since 1994 and we typically have between 10,000 and 20,000 visitors
per day who come to our site. Previously, the highest number
of visitors to come to our site in one day was 38,000 on Memorial
Day of 2006. This year we broke that record big time - with
just over 51,000 unique visitors coming to our site the day after
the Fourth of July 2008. That was a lot of work for our poor
web servers, which were not used to that level of activity.
While we did experience some troubles that day trying to handle the
traffic and the orders, for the most part we were able to handle it.
We thank all the new customers and visitors that we have gotten so
far this year and we are pleased that everyone is enjoying our web
site!
Last month, we unveiled a new News section on our web site. We call
it Poolandspa.com Headline News - we hope CNN does not mind !
The page is updated daily and has all the current top headline news
stories, swimming news, diving news, Olympics coverage, sports news
and physical fitness news. We feel these are topics that will
be of interest to our web site visitors - pool and spa enthusiasts -
and we are already getting about 2000 visitors per day who are
reading those new articles.
Take a look by
clicking here.
It
is easy to not think about what our brave men and women in the Army
go through on a daily basis over in Iraq or Afghanistan. The
truth is, most of them are not being shot at on a daily basis
anymore, but they are undergoing a lot of hardship. One thing
that you never see mentioned on the news is the fly problem over
there. Yes, we said flies! Think about how bothersome
just one fly is in your yard or in your house. People hate
flies. Well, in Iraq and Afghanistan there are A LOT OF FLIES
all over. They are big and very, very irritating.
We were contacted by a Sergeant in the Army stationed in Afghanistan
last month, and he told us of their fly problem and that he had seen
our Bug Zapper promoted in our Online Newsletter! Small world
huh? He asked if we could donate a number of Bug Zappers and
Bug Sluggers for he and his fellow troops. How can you say no
to that?
Unfortunately, we did not have enough Bug Zappers in stock for them,
and all of our suppliers were sold out as well. We finally
tracked down the actual manufacturer and ordered the needed Zappers
for the troops. We shipped them to
Afghanistan to protect out troops from the evil flies! They promise to send us some photos of them killing
bugs. Sometimes the little things in life make things MUCH
more comfortable, and we were pleased to be able to help out our
troops, who work so very hard for us all. The internet is a
wonderful thing, no?
See
the Bug Zapper
For the first time in industry history, a builder has been arrested
and faces criminal charges for causing an entrapment death. David
Lionetti, president of Shoreline Pools in Stamford, Conn., was
charged with second-degree man-slaughter in the 2007 death of
Zachary Cohn, the 6-year-old son of a prominent hedge-fund manager.
“David Lionetti is shocked to be personally charged with
manslaughter,” said his attorney, Richard Meehan Jr. of the
Bridgeport, Conn., law firm Meehan Meehan & Gavin. “He’s the
president of a company that employs well over 300 people and has
built thousands of pools.”
Lionetti, 53, was immediately released on $25,000 bail. He was
scheduled to appear in court July 28 and faces a maximum penalty of
10 years in prison. He will plead not guilty, according to his
attorney. Zachary died July 28, 2007, at his Greenwich, Conn., home
when his arm became trapped in a wall drain leading from the pool to
a water feature pump. The incident received national coverage and
helped prompt the U.S. Congress to pass the first-ever federal Pool
& Spa Safety Act.
“Nothing will bring our son back, but we hope this prosecution will
help prevent another horrific incident like this from happening to
someone else,” parents Brian and Karen Cohn said in a statement.
“Those who knowingly violate pool safety codes designed to protect
children should be held accountable for their actions.”
The Cohns’ pool allegedly was not equipped with dual drains or SVRS
devices, making it out of compliance with Connecticut building code
requirements. The prosecutor, State Attorney David Cohen, charged
that in constructing the vessel, Shoreline Pools went beyond
negligence into the category of recklessness. “The difference
between criminal negligence and manslaughter in the second degree …
is what we call the specific intent of the actor,” he stated.
“Reckless conduct basically involves perceiving a known risk and
ignoring that known risk.”
But Meehan said the “risk” should have been seen by many. The Cohns’
pool was designed by an outside engineer and approved by the
Greenwich building inspector, he said. Meehan added that the
installation met several inspections throughout construction and
received a Certificate of Occupancy, indicating it was suitable for
use. “[At] no step along the way did any of those individuals, who
are now defendants in [a] civil case, indicate that there was
anything out of keeping with regulations,” he said. In an odd
turn of events, three days before the arrest, a warehouse at
Lionetti’s company burned to the ground. The cause for the
late-night fire, which destroyed the building, its contents and
dozens of trucks, has not been determined.
“Shoreline Pools is still operational,” Meehan said. “There’s been
no interruption in their installation or service work. It’s just an
unfortunate piece of serendipity that occurred within 72 hours of
the arrest warrant being served.” The Stamford fire marshal would
not comment, saying the incident was still under investigation.
Shoreline Pools was founded by the Lionetti family in 1968.
We opened
the PoolandspaGREEN.com section of our web site this year and it is
already one of the most
visited areas of our site. We have devoting a
lot of time and space to gather the finest
Green products for pool & spa.
You will save energy and help out the environment with many
of these Eco Friendly and Global
Warming Friendly Swimming Pool and Hot Tub Spa products. Hopefully you will find these
products useful and help save the environment at the same
time!
We opened up a new web site department just for pets, PoolandspaPET.com. It
includes doggy steps, animal safety alarms, pet cleaning products
and even a new line of dog & cat life vests and floating pool
lounges! Strange, but true. Check it out for all your pet
needs.
The new mascot is Kodiak Charles Bear, nickname is Cody. He was born Oct. 15, 2007. Cody is the
official mascot for our new
Pool & Spa Pet Section of our web site. We know
that thousands of Poolandspa.com regular customers (who are
dog lovers) like to follow the antics of the Poolandspa.com
dogs, so click here to
see some photos and a video
of
Cody.
For all you dog lovers, there are always new dog pictures of the
various Poolandspa.com dogs secretly placed at the bottom of all our
Clearance Pages.
See if you can find them.
If
you are a frequent visitor to our site, you have probably started to
notice some major changes in our web site design and navigation.
We have started to do a web site makeover on many of the most
popular areas of our site. Since our site was first built in
1994 and consists of over 6000 pages and over 100,000 products, this
is a major undertaking. We are trying to improve the look and
functionality of the site, without going crazy with a lot of the new
fangled web 2.0, Flash type stuff, which can slow down the loading
time of pages - and often makes site navigation hard and confusing.
Our web designers are currently taking notes and any comments from
customers, visitors and/or advertisers. We'd like to hear any
ideas you may have - positive and negative. Send any comments
or design ideas to Betty Carter at
betty@poolandspa.com.
We value everyone's input and are continuing to try to make
Poolandspa.com the best pool & spa web site ever!
Poolandspa.com Announces 2008 Best Of Class Awards- Poolandspa.com, a
Nevada based pool and spa web site, announces the winners of
their 2008 Best Of Class Awards for companies in the pool and
spa industry. Poolandspa.com was one of the first pool and spa
companies to have a web site and has been on the net since
1994. They have presented their Best Of Class Awards every year
since 1998. The award signifies superior products and/or
customer service in the pool & spa industry.
Click here for the list of winners and to read more.
Beachcomber Hot Tubs unveiled their brand new web
site in August. Included in their new site is the
complete product line-up of their tubs, hot tub
benefits, a dealer locator, information about the
company and a new feature "Keith's Blog" where you can
hear from their company president Keith Scott.
Check it out here.
This month we are sponsoring a great Sweepstakes
Contest where you could win a brand new Pilates H2O Portable
Hot Tub Spa! Win a free hot tub spa at
Poolandspa.com - Sweepstakes Contest Enter our brand new 2008 Sweepstakes to win a fabulous spa
from
Pilates H2O! One winner will be selected at the end of
December
(12/30/08) so enter now….who knows, you may be our next big winner!
Check it out
here.
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Online advertising in 2008 has broken all
records so far this year. With the economic slowdown, many
companies are turning to niche marketing on the internet to increase
sales. Internet advertising is expected to hit $16 billion dollars
by the year 2010. That will be more money than is spent on all
cable and satellite TV advertising COMBINED! The move from
traditional print, radio and TV advertising to internet advertising is
unprecedented in history. These
days you can’t go anywhere without hearing about the Internet. More and
more people are using the Web every day and are turning to it as a
resource for information as well as a place to shop. But for
advertisers, it’s like the Wild, Wild West out there – so many Web
Sites, so many choices. Often, companies must spend money needlessly on
Internet Advertising because it is so hard to target their particular
demographic audience. That’s where we come in !
We
have the customer's eyes that you want to reach ! If your
company currently benefits from print, web, TV, and/or radio advertising
direct to the high end consumer, then you will certainly benefit from an
advertising program on our site !
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How To
Clear A Green Pool - Our most viewed YouTube video with over
40,000 views of Part 1 & 2.
If you open your pool and the water is green, you can watch this new
video. Learn all the best tips and tricks! Also
included is the new "How To Backwash A Filter" video instructions as
well.
If you have any educational or funny pool or spa videos,
we would love to see them for possible inclusion on our
site. Email the YouTube link (not the whole video, just the
link) to Betty Carter at
betty@poolandspa.com.
Due to popular demand, we have made two DVD's of our
first season of Pool & Spa How-To videos that we
produced for YouTube. We had no idea that so
many people would be interested in our videos, and
we have to admit that some of the first ones we made
last year are a little amateur-ish. But, they
do get the point across - and we do get better with
the technology with each video that we do! So we
have made two compilation DVD's which cover our most
popular shows from September 2007 thru August 2008.
This is a new section of our Online Newsletter
where they let me, the President of Poolandspa.com and one of the hosts on Poolandspa.TV, actually pick
some of the products that I think will be the hottest selling items
for this season. These products are ones that I have
researched and added to our web site because I feel that they
deserve special mention and attention. Some of these items are
for sale through Poolandspa.com, and some you need to contact the
manufacturer in order purchase. Either way, my 30 years
experience in the pool and spa industry tells me that these items
will be HOT sellers and will be products you really should check out
for your pool or spa !
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Pool Frog & Spa Frog By King Technology - These are terrific
mineral water treatments for pools and spas. Reduces bromine
and chlorine use while keeping your water silky smooth, clear and
algae free. We had a lot of consumer requests for thee
products - everyone seems so happy with them. So we started to
carry the whole line. If pool or spa water chemistry is giving
you a headache, then I would definitely check out these Frog
Systems. Plus the frog is cute.
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EZ Pads Spa Pads
- This is a really great idea. Placing your spa is sometimes
troublesome because you may not have a deck or patio, or you may not
be sure where you want to place your spa. These folks have
invented a heavy duty portable spa decking system that allows you to
make a spot for your spa - and then move it in the future.
Kind of hard to explain, but go to the link and take a look at the
pictures and you will understand. This product is great for
people that are renting houses or who do not want to permanently
build a deck or pour a concrete slab to put their spa on.
Check it out !
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The Covana
Automatic Spa Cover
- OK, this has to be THE BEST spa product I have
ever seen. I spotted this at a spa convention last November
and I was so impressed with this that we are now heavily promoting
it. It is a heavy duty automatic spa cover system that raises
up and down by itself. You have to click on the link to see it
in action. We gave it a Best Of Class Award for new product
innovation!
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Prestige Spa Covers
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These Spa Covers are great. They are my favorite. We
have sold thousands and thousands of their covers since the
mid-1980's. They are very heavy duty and last a long time. Delivery
is normally in about 2-3 weeks. Take a look at this video
to see all of the quality features they offer! -
View the Prestige Spa Covers
- Hot Tub Spa Cover Product Review Video
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Spa Scenes Cover
Murals
- These are great full color murals that go on the back of your spa
cover. There is nothing like this available anywhere.
They look awesome - I even put one on my own personal spa!
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Cover Valet Spa Cover Lifter
- This is a MUST HAVE for all spa owners. I have one of these
on my personal spa and I could not live without it. This cover
lifter is the highest quality available on the market and is not
flimsy, like many of the other ones. We sell these at Poolandspa.com
and I would definitely recommend this product !
Check out some of these specially
selected, most popular products for pool and spa. All are
in-stock and ready for immediate delivery.
Spa Frog Floating Mineral System Complete spa care
using mineral and bromine cartridges that snap into a reusable
holder.
Spa
Frog Cartridges adjust to meet the needs of each spa and should
be replaced as directed. Reduces bromine use and makes water
feel silky soft and lessens dry skin.
Bug Zapper & Bug Slugger Don’t you hate it when you have a bug ? Oooh
there is a spider on the wall. Who let that fly in here ? Will you
look at the size of that thing crawling on the carpet ! WHO IS GONNA
GO OVER THERE AND KILL IT ? No one wants to ! Well, these problems
are a thing of the past with the brand new
Bug Slugger. It is a small tennis-racquet looking swatter that
is powered by 2 AA batteries. Comes complete with batteries and
features a two button safety control switch to deter use by small
children. Makes a great gift.
Digital Water Tester This handy
Aquachek TruTest test strip reader was developed specifically for
the pool and spa owner. Accurately reads Free Chlorine, Bromine,
pH, and Total Alkalinity on test strips in 15 seconds without
visual color matching. Takes the guesswork out of visually
reading test strips – Great if you are colorblind! Lightweight
strip reader is handheld, water resistant, and the large LCD
screen is easy to read. Comes with Test strips too!
Hot Tub Gift Pack Need a gift for a spa owner? Going to a spa party and don't know what to
bring? This deluxe
Entertainment / Party Pak
Includes one 9oz InSPAration Spa Scent, a floating Kool Tray with checkers, and a deck of
waterproof playing cards! Have extra fun in the tub with this exciting new kit!
Eco One Household Clearers
The folks at Eco One have come up with
a new line of
Eco-Friendly Household Cleaners. These cleaners work
great, are very cost effective, Eco-Friendly and the best part is that
they are non-toxic and 100% kid-safe. Available individually
and as a kit.
MicroPure High Density Micron Spa Filters Want to improve your spa water
filtration, then see these brand new
Micro Pure
High Density Spa Filters. These have proven to be
one of our hottest selling new items for 2007 and in
2008 as well.
Eco One Spa Chemicals Eco One Spa Chemicals are our #1 Best Selling Item.
Learn more about these great Eco-Friendly, Non-Toxic Spa Chemicals
that will keep your spa crystal clear with little to no effort!
Click
here to go to the Eco One Spa Chemical Page
Loop Loc Pool Covers
Many Loop Loc Covers and winterizing items are on
Clearance right now! Here is the link to our
Winter
Cover Clearance Center. We just LOWERED our price by hundreds of dollars on all stock
Loop Loc Covers too ! Here is the link to the
Loop
Loc Pool Cover Center page.
CONTACT US
Feel free to give us a call if you have any questions or if you
would rather order by phone at 800-876-7647 or 702-437-4343. Our
customer service phone hours are 11AM–5PM PST.
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needs! Remember, there is no Pool or Spa Store bigger or
better. We have over 130,000 Pool and Spa related products
and parts! All at Discount Prices. We bring the world of Pools and Spas right to your
front door! We look forward to serving you soon! Customer Service Email:
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