The 350.00 bid was way low. I did one tub about 3 weeks ago. A remodeling contractor called me and asked me for a price to do a tub for this woman. He wanted me to give HER the price directly, so she could save as much as possible. Apparently she'd recently separated from her husband, and was getting the house ready for sale, and it was recommended to her by her realtor to change out the tub, being that the one she had was stained and pretty ugly. Well, when they went to pull the first course of tile so they could pull the tub, the walls literally fell apart. In addition, she'd just found out she had cancer and was starting chemo and radiation (this all being told to me by the contractor who I'd worked with before and trusted, especially being he wasn't making anything off of it), and so was out of work because of feeling so sick from the treatment of the cancer, so I felt sorry for her and gave her a break. My normal price for a tub enclosure is 800.00, and that's about normal for up here. When I told her 350.00 (coincidentally), the contractor's head whipped around so fast I was afraid he'd given himself a good whiplash. I got downstairs and he kept asking me if I was sure. I finally told him this was my good deed for 2009-- don't question it. :-)

We bought a Wolf 30" dual fuel range last year. They were running a 500 dollar off promo at the time and gave us free glide racks. But I have never heard of anyone being able to bargain with Wolf on the price. Every dealer we got a quote from in NJ gave us the same price.

Looks like you have 2 threads on this topic and I wanted to be sure you saw my other post, so here it is again. There are 3 groups of people that may respond. 1. People that LOVE it 2. People that HATE it 3. People that have only "heard" about it but have no expereince. We have the A&A Quick Clean Max. We love it - worth every dime! Let me first tell you why we love it. Aside from the initial brushing that is needed after start up, we have brushed our pool only a couple times in 2 years. Any debris that lands in the pool is quickly diverted to the skimmers due to the powerful venturi skimmers. These skimmers practically have what I will refer to as "toilet bowl" suction where you can literally see the floating debris move toward the skimmers and get sucked in. Any leaves that are heavy and may become waterlogged and sink and sent to the deep end by the pop ups and sucked into the main drain and into the leaf canister that resides at the equipment pad. Our system has a lifetime warranty, even on the pop up heads. Other brand pop up heads could run $80-120 each. I strongly feel that infloor is only as good as the installation. In our case, A&A Manufacturing received pool plans from our builder and they engineered the perfect placement of each head - and then the builder followed those plans to plumb the system. We do not have any dead spots like some may report. These are areas that accumulate dirt and debris... we have been so lucky that our infloor performs flawlessly. Some infloor systems can be sold over the counter and be installed by anyone... beware of these. You want a trained, licensed professional installing your infloor using plans engineered for your specific pool otherwise it may not be worth your money. I feel like a walking advertisement for A&A, but is it only because I believe in it and it works great! Oh ya, we paid $4000. Whew... that is all. Good luck!

Get several estimates from local contractors and pick the one you feel most comfortable with.