Above Ground Pool Brand?

[webjedi]

We started the quest for a family pool. We had a Intex pool for a couple years and looking to move up to a better pool. We started looking at Namco - we feedback on that company? I believe they are national - they have Willow pools. Problem I have is the sales guy was like 20 and said his first week on the job - he knew absolutely nothing. We did go to another place selling Trevi 206 - for a 27 foot Trevi for $3,600, Hayward pump, with electric post put in, ground work, installation, water, and first set up is $6.6K. It's harder to get the exact on Namco cause of course they never mentioned the need for the electrical post and sub out ground work/installation - pool/pumps was $2,500 then using same cost for electric and ground/install work as first place comes to $4.9K. Namco uses there own pump line - Proline - no idea if any good.

Is it worth going to the Trevi full package with better pump (hayward) or is the Namco stuff good enough to last several years and a better deal at that price?

I don't mind spending more for a better product but uncertain if really worth that much more?

I appreciate any feedback or thoughts.

Thank you.

[PoolDoc]

Not the sort of question I can answer, but Waste (one of our regular contributors) is also in Maine, and maybe he knows what's available and good.

[webjedi]

Thanks - I'm in Maine as well so any feedback from a local guy would be great.