I was grumbling about this to Ben, Janet, Carl and Al. Ben suggested I post it on the forum, so here is my saga.

What a pain it is to find and buy a new AG pool. I'm in the market to replace my pool this spring. Planning to buy a 27 ft with 54 inch walls this time. (Current one is 24 ft and 48 inch.) The local pool store that I usually frequent has what appears to be a very nice pool but only offers one liner pattern as "part of their package." I don't like the pattern and the lady says that is the only liner they will put with it. So, I guess they don't get my business. There aren't really too many pool stores locally. The other one close by that I know of is more into spas than pools and they don't always come across as too knowledgeable.

I guess one option is looking and buying online. The pool store gave me the name of the guy who does their installations. We talked with him the other evening and told him we probably weren't going to buy from the store due to no liner choices, but wondered if he would be interested in doing the installation anyways. His reply was that he only did their installations, so, no, not interested. So, now I also have to find an installer.

Gee. This is fun.