Having never bought a pool from Branch Brook I can't say whether they are good or bad. We've bought some lawn furniture there and it has been pretty good.

I'm in NJ, where Branch Brook is from, I think, but it's now part of Namco, which is in many states. There are many pool stores here particularly on the Rt 22 corridor and they are all pretty much the same. There's one there which, while not cheap, doesn't push things like calcium to vinyl pool owners, but the rest are typical.