This will be the 2nd time in my life I have posted a bad review on a business. The contractor who installed my pool set an appointment for Mid State Pools to come to my house in order to give us instructions on how to maintain the pool. Which of course, with such a warm referral, it would of been a lay down to receive all our future maintenance business. We also wanted to install a hot tub asap and was going to discuss purchasing that with them as well. We were told they would be at our home at 10 am this morning. About 1030 no one had showed, so my wife and I decided to call them to see where they were and estimated time they would arrive or if we needed to reschedule. I had never spoken to them in my entire life. Right from the first few words, Bruce Comer proceeded to give me a tongue lashing. I was caught quite off guard. Apparently my pool installation guy had set an original appointment for Friday but later changed it to Thursday per my request. I guess Bruce didn't like that change at all, even though the customer service person had said that it wasn't a problem. He kept saying over and over that he was not going to come to my house and do my pool guy's dirty work. That is a very odd statement because my pool in in the ground and everything is running just fine. There is no dirty work to be done. I told Bruce that but he would not listen. He further said because my pool guy changed appointments that they did not won't my damn business ever! That he was putting me on a list to never do business with me. Again very odd, because I had zero to do with any scheduling of appointments. I am the end client. I told him ok friend, I will write a bad review on your business. Its horrible for you to talk to my wife and me this way when you don't even know me. He said he knew exactly who I was and that i was a DICK. Yet that is impossible because I have never met him, talked to him, or done business with him. This is our first swimming pool ever. He proceeded to cuss me while my wife was on speaker call with me to the point, I started cussing him back. That part was certainly my fault to stoop to his level. I should of just hung up the phone. Of course he said he would contest my bad review which is fine. I know there are some good reviews on this business. When I look at reviews though, I always look at the bad reviews for a business as well in making my decision to do business with them. I am telling you life is too short to even chance putting up with such unnecessary drama; especially when there are so many other local brick and mortar competition in this industry; as well as Amazon. My advice to anyone is to move on to the next one in line and not waste your time with these folks. If they will talk to a brand new potential customer that way for no logical reason, then what will they do when it comes to servicing your pool, standing behind equipment they sale you, or any problem you may face in the course of doing business with them. I immediately looked up another service and called Pool and Spa Depot. I told them what I had just experienced and they were so nice to my wife and I. They immediately got online and did a video tutorial over the phone with us. They also scheduled an appointment to come to our house personally on Monday morning to provide more hands on advise about maintaining our pool and the services they can provide us. It was the difference between heaven and hell. At the end of the call, they told us they had took many of Mid State's customers over the years for the same reason. I then called a good friend of mine who also has a pool in Murfreesboro. He told me he had a run in with them years ago as well over one of their pumps going bad. He said he had done business with them for over a decade, then one of the owners sons or grandsons took over. He ask me who it was I dealt with and when I told him Bruce Jr. He said yeah that is the guy! He said he is nothing but a spoiled brat and new nothing about customer service and maintaining a successful business. read more