Regrettably, I did business with CJ Pool and Spa. On August 30th 2014 I took my soft tub spa pack into him to have the temperature setting adjusted up (both on forums and SoftTub, the manufacture, told me it was a simple matter to reset the temp inside the spa pack). So I turned off my spa, drained it, and took it to CJ's. After about 10 minutes the owner came out of the back room and told me the motor was blown but that he could sell me a replacement for roughly 479.00. Keep in mind, the spa pack was running great before he touched it. Okay big red flag, but the next closest dealer was 50 miles away so I said fine put in the new motor but I want my old motor back and I want a guarantee with this one. He said no problem and put the one year guarantee on the receipt.
3 weeks later the new spa motor that CJ's sold me for 479.00 dollars seized up. I was able to get it working again but it seized up for good one week later. I took it back to him. He told me the motor was blown and that he would have to replace it--again. After one week I called him to ask when I could pick it up. He said "I don't know I don't have a motor for it". I asked when he would have a motor and he said "I have to wait until one walks through the front door". Yes, those were his words, exactly. He was waiting for someone to come into his shop with a working spa motor that they wanted to sell to him? Give to him? or He could tell them it was "blown" and keep it. Keep in mind he could order a motor if he wanted to honer his warranty (like a reputable dealer). Or he could have given me my money back and told me he could not fix it.
I gave him another week and called to ask on the status of the motor -- same answer, "I don't know when I will get one, it could take 6 months it could take a year". At this point, I called a second dealer in Michigan and ask them what they could do. After some discussion with them and the manufacture of the spa I decide to retrieve the spa pack to get it fixed (it had been with him 3 weeks). I gave the spa pack with the blown motor to the other Michigan dealer and just to double check, I gave him the motor CJ had removed from my pack telling me it was blown to check. In 3 days he called me back and told me the CJ motor was indeed blown but that there was nothing wrong with my original motor that he had removed it worked great--it never should have been replaced in the first place.
The whole time this was happening I was in touch with the manufacture (SoftTub) of the spa. In fact, they have currently ask me for copies of all of my correspondence with CJ Pool. Which I am providing to them. Obviously he is an independent dealer and they have little control over his conduct except maybe taking away his dealership license which I hope they do.
This guy is the worst kind of businessman. He replace a WORKING motor to make some dishonest money, then offered a bogus warranty he never intended to honer on the broken motor he sold me for 479.00. It dose not get any worse than that. read more