"shot" means the walls where rusting out from being buried about 18", needed a new liner, pump motor beginning to act up and i didn't feel like it was worth the money to fix it. We removed it but didn't immediately put up a new pool. Removal wasn't too bad because I wasn't trying to salvage anything, I just took a angle grinder with a cutting wheel and sliced that sucker up. The hole it left was another story though, 15 yards of fill later I no longer had a hole, I'm just glad I could get a bobcat/skid steer into my back yard.
JJ