Love2Swim:

It seems pretty clear that you are not a spammer just a user happy with a product.

But you must understand that every season someone posing as poolowner, but really a spammer, shows up touting some magic solution to all pool problems. Usually they are touting a bromine or bacquacil chemical, an electromagnet, or a copper erosion system. Check the Hall of Shame where we've tossed a couple of these clowns before PoolDoc yanked their membership (the same PoolDoc who told folks to ease up on you).

We've already had at least 3 this season.

Your thread-starting post looked a lot like these...so people got suspicious in a hurry.

People come to PoolForum.com because they have problems, mostly, and their pool store can't help them, keeps recommending lots and lots of expensive chemicals (like they are doing to your friends) that don't work.

The methods advocated here DO work. Once your pool is where you want it you'll spend very little time on taking care of it, but just enough.

BTW, we are VERY familiar with all of these add-ons--Floatron is just another copper-erosion system. But copper has a plethora of problems. A much more popular one is called Nature2 and is sold in pool stores from coast to coast. People swear by it. Curiously, though, Nature2 won't say what's in it or what it releases (a copper/silver mix). Nature2 doesn't have any independent studies to back its claims. No science

By my estimate, your $250 investment, plus $25 for the season is $275 which will buy about 155 gallons of bleach. At the MOST conservative usage rate--a gallon every other day for a 3-month season, that's 45 gallons. So you could buy enough chlorine for 3 1/2 seasons.

Meanwhile, soon, blond hair will turn green and so will your pool fittlings.

In 3 years, it will have cost you, by your estimate, $325 dollars--and you could buy enough bleach to last your pool for 4 1/2 years. It will take you 5 years before you finally will catch up to what it would cost you to use bleach by our methods.

So it's going to take you 5 years for your Floatron to pay for itself, according to your own figures, instead of using our methods.