Carolyn
SCAM!!!!!!
SCAM!!!!!!! DO NOT BUY!!! They do not have pools!!! We ordered May 20th,2020 and still have no pool just another month of waiting we finally canceled and contacted paypal for a a return.
Above ground swimming pools and do it yourself pool kits at Family Pool Fun. We provide fast shipping and great customer support on DIY pool kits, swimming pool toys, pool accessories and more.
FamilyPoolFun (familypoolfun.com) has 277 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 1.9 out of 5.
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Carolyn
SCAM!!!!!!! DO NOT BUY!!! They do not have pools!!! We ordered May 20th,2020 and still have no pool just another month of waiting we finally canceled and contacted paypal for a a return.
Jadah G.
BEWARE!! This company is crooked! Does NOT even deserve one star!
Lynn
I am writing this review to hopefully save others from this nightmarish ordeal from Jay Backer! His website is a scam.. do not and i repeat DO NOT order from him. We purchased a pool and other items from him on June 10 2020 it is now the middle of August and STILL nothing was delivered. You can NEVER get hold of anyone.. you leave messages good luck getting a response and if so it will not be of any substance! I had placed several messages, emails and texts (they supplied a number to call however when you do place the call you immediately recieve a text stating to text this number only) you leave a text and again.. NO REPLY. They take your $$$ and that's about it. I had placed an order for almost $4,000! and all I got were excuses.. no answers back and fake postponed delivery dates. Once I had actually spoke with Jay himself and he was nothing but nasty over the phone. Excuse me but You have alot of my hard earned money you shyster and this is the treatment I receive when i ask about my order?! My only thought is his theiving ways are getting the best of him and he's stressing trying to keep everyone from asking him questions! what does he expect??? You will hear excuse after excuse he is really jumping on the COVID 19 train here... I'm sorry but I work in the health field i am more than aware of COVID however stop using excuses on this matter trying to make it look like the order will be postponed due to this! People DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE.. My thoughts are.. Jay is typing to people from a basement taking everyones money everyday. This is wrong! I had to eventually go to my bank and they got my money back within 24 hours. Thank God.. it was explained to me that i was lucky most banks will not back up the customer on these issues.. and thats how Jay gets rich quick. Following our bank working for us, i contacted Familypoolfun.com to let them know to STOP this order ASAP.. I'm sure there was no order to begin with... i recieved a computer generated message that did not fit my email of contact.. then i received another email when i responded to that one again.. computer generated with a few new sentences and this time from Jay himself.. Funny how within 30 min i received 3 messages and in two months of waiting thats about how many i received in total from this joker. I was told in the email that they would request a cancelation and i responded with NO STOP ORDER ASAP. Jay responded back with a long message basically trying to be professional and ignorant all in one message. Then the kicker here is.. they contacted my husbands email stating that they would bill his card again for the amount??!! Good luck Jay.. the card was disabled due to figuring you would try something dirty like this. I don't know how he lays his head down at night! Then a final email stating that order had been canceled.. what a joke.. We spent weeks preparing our back yard for this pool.. waiting and waiting in good faith and then to only get screwed over. I ended up ordering from THE POOL FACTORY last wednesday.. AND OUR POOL WAS DELIVERED TODAY!! ONE WEEK.. ONE WEEK and wonderful customer service.. this is the place to shop! IF any one is looking for a pool.. however summer is just about over at this point.. save yourself and order from The pool factory you won't be disappointed! I don't know how Jay and his team of degenerates even look in the mirror.. and he has the nerve to end his answering machine message with God Bless.. UNREAL
Jennifer H.
BEWARE!!! Same story.....we ordered a pool from this "company" on May 17, 2020. Can never get anyone on the phone or to answer emails until you start throwing around the word scam. And when you try to press the issue of getting answers the response is quite nasty. It has been delayed and delayed, each time with the same generic email response about the manufacturers not meeting their deadlines and that next year will be harder to find a pool to purchase. Here we are 12 weeks later and no pool. Says it will be delivered between Aug 31 and Sept 11. Sure.... The real kicker is when we called to confirm the order, we were sold more products over the phone. This is a scam. Jay Backer (if that is really his name) is a con artist. And from what I have heard they keep 5% of your purchase price for a cancellation fee. A cancellation fee?!?! For what?? A product they never had to begin with, and never intended to deliver. I don't know what kind of scam they are pulling, but somehow they are holding thousands and thousands of dollars from unsuspecting customers for months on end. Probably drawing some sort of interest or return. He needs to be sued and shut down...but people like this just keep coming back with another scheme to rip people off. Just Unbelievable! I am furious!!
Claudia O.
DO NOT order. I made an order in May and was told it would be delay because of Covid. My delivery date was pushed back so many times. on 7/30 I decided not to wait anymore as once more a deadline had come and gone. I canceled my order and waited a week for the refund. 2 weeks ago I ordered from The Pool Factory and my pool is already at the distribution center and will be in my house this week. family pool fun told me that the manufacture was behind and that next year it would be harder to get a pool. Save yourself a headache and just buy from the pool factory. you might have to wait for them to stock up on the size you are looking for but it will be less than waiting on your pool from family pool fun.
Jo R. B.
DO NOT ORDER!!! BUYER BEWARE!!! I ordered my pool on June 22, 2020 and was called the next day to confirm order. The lady I spoke with told me it would be delivered in exactly 4 weeks. As it came closer to 4 weeks I heard nothing so I contacted the company. You cannot get through on their phone numbers so I emailed several times. The owner Jay called me and BERATED me on the phone for basically inquiring about my order. He then proceeded to raise his voice that I had given him the wrong number to call and then he said and I quote, "Go back! Go back and look at your email!" After we hung up I did go back and look and I had given him the CORRECT phone number. I was dumb enough to allow him to talk me into proceeding with the pool order because he assured me it would arrive the first week of August. As you can imagine, that time came and no pool arrived. He then told me 2 more weeks. The emails he does actually answer normally have a copied and pasted section about Covid and the warehouse missing the shipping schedule. In his emails he explains that some companies are taking 6 to 8 weeks to process orders yet his company (FamilyPoolFun) is not. BUT here I was at week 6 and told 2 more weeks. I hope he realizes people can do simple addition. I demanded my refund. I emailed after several days to check on my refund and he THEN told me he told the warehouse to cancel my order. My pool was never even at the warehouse according to previous emails! He then actually tried to convince me to put a pool on lay-a-way (he said other customers are choosing to do lay-a-way) since pools will be more expensive in 2021 due to the shortage this year. He sent me a cancelled invoice and told me 3 to 18 business days for my refund to process. I received my refund 9 business days later (which is today). Surprise! He retained $85 of my money as a "cancellation fee". A fee for a product HE NEVER HAD!! He has very poor business practices. He claimed he had merchanise in stock only so people would purchase. There really is a pool shortage, you can look it up, but he saw the opportunity to line his pockets and he took it by claiming he had what others did not. Then people began getting wise and demanding to know where their orders are and wanting refunds. He does not update you until you actually slam him with emails and then he spins another story of the warehouse missing the delivery deadline. He commented on someone else's review that he was allowing orders from his website in order to place customers on a waiting list. It does not state that on his website, it says the items are IN STOCK and that is FALSE! He seems shocked that people are angry. No wonder - customers believed he had the products in stock and many of us spent hundreds to thousands to prepare our yards where our pools were to be installed - YET THERE IS NO POOL! He rarely communicates and when he does, he lies and comes off incredibly disrespectful. Please listen to me and to everyone else who has had the headache of dealing with this business. SHOP ELSEWHERE!!!
David C.
Awful company....promises but no follow through. Promised my pool 3 to 4 weeks, here we are over 12 weeks later and no pool. And pool season is almost over. Jay is not to be trusted and is all stalling techniques. Awful company, do not buy from them!
Dustin B.
They promised a pool and we set up financing and waited, and waited. You can't reach them by phone, the Facebook does work but they just have a generic response nothing real and the support site where you post your activities has no real responses, they just say resolved. When you get them on the phone, they are rude and lie. 2 months later than the original date we were supposed to/ promised to get the pool and we have nothing but "resolved" activities and no pool or help. FAMILYPOOLFUN YOU SUCK!!!!!