Back to beating a dead horse. There's something about the way all these cleaners are marketed and advertised that doesn't quite add up, which keeps me searching for the real truth about alot of what they say.

One example is that if you look at pooldoctor's website, they have this chart comparing all the cleaners and why the blue pearl is better, but they leave off the chart the Aquabot Bravo and the new Turbo T's, and then just dismiss them at the bottom of the chart in a notation as "limited" or "experimental".

I note this because all evidence supports that the Bravo and the Blue Diamond are the exact same thing, and this reminds you that these salesman are less than 100% honest when addressing how many of these robots are remarketed under other names or very similar.

I raise this now because another website has the Blue Pearl on sale, with delivery for about $675. They don't claim them to be the 2007 model, like pooldoctor now does. Pooldoctor is selling the Blue Pearl for the "very special" temporary price of $749, but say it is the new improved, 100% faster, 2007 model with automotic cutoff. While the 1st website says they won't get the 2007's for another month or so and will be gettign 2006's from the warehouse, pooldoctor says on their website they had sold out all of the Water Tech's 2006 models. Both may be correct, but makes you wonder if paying the extra $75 really gets you anything different. I kind of got impression the 1st company gets their Blue Pearl's from Water Tech's warhouse, and didn't have their own, so you would think whatever is being sold now is the same from either company.

Then, if you look at Tematech and Aquatron, having to do with manufacture of Bravo which is same as Blue Diamond, there is some indication that the pva brushes were devoloped for very smooth surfaces, and they still make a Bravo with rubber brushes. So, my question is, if you have a plaster pool, are pva brushes definitely better than rubber brushes, especially if you get Turbo T, T2 or T4 with jet action and brushing?

Whereas I am convinced there is something different with the Bravo, the Blue Diamond and Bue Pearl that makes then better at smartly covering pool efficiently, the new Turbo T's are really confusing in their claims here. Since these models have jet action and brushing, they are clearly entirely new models and not repackaged from onother manufacturer. However, Aquaproducts never had a prior model that they built themsleves that had any extra efficent programming like the Bravo. They claim the Turbo T is more efficent and reduces cleaning time in 1/2 (from what?) They also say the Turbo T cleans a pool in 3 hours. They claim a T2 cleans in an hour.

Now if you closely at the claims of the Blue Diamond, their 1 hour cleaning becomes 90 minutes for larger pools, and that is in standard mode just to clean the pools bottom. Therefore, it seems to clean a larger pool and its walls, it would be closer to 3 hours, the same claim as the Turbo T and the Blue Pearl. Ths makes you wonder if the main difference is the option for bottom only cleaning, a feature the Dolphin Dynanmic also has.

So how does a Turbo T really compare with a Blue Pearl or Blue Diamond, if you are cleaning bottom and walls -- is the Blue Diamond any quicker than the Bleu Pearl, and is there any real differnce now in the Blue Pearl being sold from the 2 companies, all of which are in NJ of course, along with Water Tech.

Some truly independent consumer compny really needs to thoroughly analayze all these robots regarding their differences and claims.