I will start by saying our experience at the physical store location was great. The staff was courteous, knowledgeable and friendly. We bought our above ground 24 foot round pool around Memorial Day. I was told by the store associate and by the scheduler that the install takes approximately 4-6 hours. Our install was scheduled for July 2nd. No time of arrival was given. I was up and ready to meet them by 8 a.m. Around 10:30 a.m. I call the store to see what time I should expect them. Vicki, the scheduler, tells me early afternoon and I should receive a call from the installer before noon to confirm. The installer calls me at 11:30 and tells me between 1 and 3. Fine. 4:30 rolls around and no one is here yet. I call the installer again. He tells me that they have had to completely take down and rebuild the pool they are currently working on but they will be here this evening to at least dig the hole. They show up at 7:45 p.m. The hole is dug. Arrangements are made for them to be back at my house between 8-9 a.m. the following day. They did not show up until 1:30 p.m. the next day because someone on the team had heat exhaustion. They were able to work for two hours before we had a rain delay. By this time, the installers have worked for 4 hours at my house already. All I have is level ground, a black ring and sand on the ground...nothing close to complete.
They come back Friday, (July 4th was a holiday) but the ground is too wet. My frustration is building. Arrangements are made for them to come back on Wednesday, July 10th. I get a text at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday saying the install team has food poisoning. At this point, with the repeated delays, I have a hard time believing this. I'm questioning the legitimacy of their repeated excuses.
On Wednesday, I call the Operations Manager, Jake, who frankly, did nothing. He tells me that we've had a ridiculous amount of rain this spring and the installers are overloaded.
This is all well and good, except that none, NONE, of the excuses I was given for the delays had anything to do with being back logged, over worked, short handed because of the ground being so wet.
I was also assured by Jake that there is NEVER more than one install scheduled per day. But guess where my install team was on July 2nd when they were supposed to be at my house??? In Drumright, installing a pool.
As I said before, the store experience was great. But there is a tremendous breakdown in the scheduling/logistics department. The installers tell me that it takes at least 8-10 hours to install a pool but the store tells the customers it's only 4-6 hours. See a problem here? The scheduling department overbooks and the installers are overworked.
My pool was finally completed on Thursday, July 11th...10 days after it should've been.
Another issue we've had is that we've received conflicting information from the store compared to the installers...at least 8 different times. It makes it hard to know how to care of the pool.
Frankly, I could go on. There were other issues with the pool filter, electrical issues, clean up, etc.
I'm not sure where the breakdown is. But there is a major discrepancy within that business. read more