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Castaway Pools and Spas

Posted: 2007-06-18 by CHRIS L. [send email]
Never came back to finish the job!
Complaint Rating:  99 % with 126 votes
Castaway Pools and Spas installed a pool at my home on 4/5/07. They have never came back to finish the job despite numerous phone calls and letters sent to their office. Their salesman john refuses to answer any phone calls. I would advise anyone in the tristate area to be aware of this company. If this company is hired to install a pool at your home read the contract and beware that the are not responsible for any damage to your home or property. Do not under any circumstances make a payment until they are completely done. They seem friendly but are that lie and deceive the public.
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160 days ago by Ben T. Over [send email]
Dear Anonymous Person,

Thank you! You said and asked just about everything I was thinking. Keep up the good work.
159 days ago by Sean Corrigan [send email]
I am probably the only person on this post to get there deposit($2,000) refunded to them. So if you are reading this Denny, you are a piece of crap. You came into my house, sat at my kitchen table, embarrassed me in front of my family. You knew what you were doing. One thing that is a dead giveaway, is the fact that everyone here had a different deposit. I never heard of a company that is selling the same product, but is charging different deposits. I think you sized up the people and if you thought there might be some kind of physical repercussion, you changed the deposit amount. I haven't forgotten about you, I lost a lot of time and sleep because of this.
159 days ago by Randy [send email]
Great questions Anonymous Person! I was thinking the same very things. Maybe Denny will help pay for the $15,000.00 he and Castaway stole from my family!
159 days ago by Pissed Off [send email]
Denny, on the abc6 broadcast, Castaway told them that they have about 100 happy current customers... who are they??? there are about 25 listed on this web site who are NOT very HAPPY! Even with Johns face plastered all over the tri state area, you know his MUG shot, he (they) still have the nerve to continue to sell pools in this area. I cannot for the life of me figure this out.

This pool almost tore apart our marriage of over 29 years, does that mean anything to you, every night, was a big argument, because I wanted to go with the little "MOM & POP" shop pool dealer and not the big wigs! You know, we would get more one on one service, come out and fix any problems, blah, blah, blah. Now it all seems like a Charlie Brown movie, when his teacher would talk to him. Why were there so many different deposit amounts?

Ours was $5000, we contracted in Feb 24th, the pool was put in Mar 26, only to find out that there were NO PERMITS! They didn't show up until April 25th and that was paid to with a bounced check. None of this was made known to us, until, WE called for the final inspections, in July... then all hell broke loose. Castaway did NOTHING to help! Our pool was closed as an unsafe structure but we still had to pay the $500 a month payment on the pool! Papers were filed with the township and they too were ignored, no one including Kalai, gave a damn about anything. The BBB filed a letter, that too was ignored. You were there when all this was taken place. You could have stepped up to the plate. Both you and Dave were at my home. You looked at the three colors of dirt in the bottom of the pool, and said, I have no idea what that is. Well, after all these months, prior to US, not YOU closing our pool, we found out that is was ALGEA, black and mustard. The sand in the bottom of the pool was from a leak in the return lines. We had the test done at our cost, and it is on the deep end. When the filter is turned off, it causes a vacuum and sucks the dirt into the lines, when you start the filter up, the dirt shoots into the pool. It had nothing to do with the filter. We also, had the filter checked out at our cost and everything was replaced. John and Dave both knew this and nothing was done.

I have countless nights of not sleeping, arguing with the family over this stupid pool, but you and your crownies slept, ate and rode around in new trucks to scam other people. I am sure that you were well aware of any problems in the company.
159 days ago by Not Happy [send email]
Does anyone know if it true that John was arrested recently, someone who did yard work for me said that he saw John Sr. on TV in some court being charged with scamming people on pool work. He said that it looked just like John Sr., I didn't see it myself. When he talked to me he discussed moving his business to West Virginia because there weren't as many requirements down there. Does that sound familiar - does anyone else live down there? I had written a comment once before, but I used another name this time.
159 days ago by Randy [send email]
Whats the matter Denny? Don't know what to say! Be a man and answer these questions!!
159 days ago by Dencil Detamore [send email]
hello again I will answer every question that has been asked. I work full time just like the rest of you and am not on the internet everyday but I will respond as often as I can and try to help as much as possible. I have received several e-mails and will answer those as soon as I can. As far as deposits go I know for a fact that most of the deposits were returned. The only deposits that I know of that were not refunded are Dino Nerny and Francine Greco. The only reason I can think of is that the company did not have enough money to do so.As far as John Sr. coming to W.V. to start a business I dont know anything about it I do know he has family somewhere around Summers ville but can assure you that I will never have dealings with him or his son again. The reason I came back to W.V. is that this is were I live I did not run and hide. Again I am trying to help.I did sell alot of you your pools I never imagined that any of the installations would go as they have.I have installed hundreds of pools in less than a week and never had problems until I worked for this company.Randy how many times did I offer to pour your concrete? The only reason I did not is because the company never had the money for the material. By the way anonymous I never had a new company vehicle and while were on the subject are you really a customer or a disgruntled ex-employ of castaway.
159 days ago by Anonymous Person [send email]
Hello again Dencil,

Where to begin?

I never said you had a new company vehicle.

You didn't answer any of my questions.

I don't really think of myself as a "customer", I think of myself as a "victim". Yes, I am a victim of Castaway. I have the attorney's bills to prove it.

If I was a disgruntled ex-employee, why would I be challenging your credibility, since you claim to also be an ex-employee? If I was a disgruntled ex-employee, you and I would be on the same team, right? Unless you aren't ACTUALLY an ex-employee, then your defending Castaway would all make sense, because that is what you seem to be doing.

And what are you doing with your time now, might I ask? Are you working for another pool company? Why don't you give us the name and phone number of that company too so I can call the owner and have a nice chat with him about all the great stuff you did here in NJ and PA. Are you ashamed of what you did here? Have you turned yourself in to the police here in NJ and confessed your activities? Are you worried about how long it will be before your MUG SHOT will be posted up on here, right next to your friend John's?

You sound now just like you did when you were lying to my face. You say things like "I will answer those as soon as I can", instead of just answering them. You stall and hide information and outright lie, hoping that in the meantime we will all forget just what it was that we were asking in the beginning.

The whole operation is like a "How-To" book on scamming people. Oh, we forgot the check, can you pay for that?. Darn, that equipment is out of stock, it will be in soon. Oh, that? I have it on the truck right now, but I have to run to another job so we'll take care of it tomorrow. Your pool will be here tomorrow. Did I say tomorrow? There was a problem with the transportation permits, it'll be next Tuesday. Can you believe there was a recall on that equipment? We've got our crack legal team suing the manufacturer! Delay, delay, delay, and in the meantime you are out buying a plasma TV and Kentucky Fried Chicken with money that I worked my ass off to earn.

Answer my questions, why don't you... right here on this board, so everyone can see what a stand-up guy you are. If you're such a stand-up guy, why don't you mail a check for $500.00 to Randy or Greg or Fran, or any one of the others who have a poorly installed piece of crap in their backyard and you to thank for it?
158 days ago by Gearge [send email]
Not everyone has gotten their deposits back. So STFU. Give me your address you MF. Not everyone here is sane. You trying to be this nice guy now after you stole all these people money. I am still waiting on my $8000.00 hard earned dollars. I spent 12 months of my life in the most dangerous situations in Iraq earning this money, and here I allowed a thief into my home and just handed it to him. I am reading all these complaints and I am turning into someone I rather not. We invited a thief into our house, he sat at our table. If you are reading this John... please come back, I have another check for you. Please....

I told my wife as soon as he left..."this does not feel right". And here he was looking at my 15 year old Chevy truck saying "nice truck". Cheap icebreaker.

I want my money back... but I want revenge also.
158 days ago by Pissed Off [send email]
it will take more than $500 to fix the problem with our pool, it will be between $2 & 8 thousand dollars, but thanks for the thought! This will be a never ending nightmare and none of us will win, only the scammers! They know the system and are playing it well. How many customers out there that do not have access to the internet, that do not even know about this web site. It looks like every pool that was installed this year, had a problem. I am also sure that there are more people out there that did not get their deposits back,. as you said, the company did not have enough money to give refunds, where did the money go??? New TRUCKS are sitting in the parking lot and in their driveway at home, who paid for that??? I guess if you take $5000 deposit times that by 10 people, you get $50,000, WOW, a new TRUCK! What ever happened to Bruce & Mario?

I think they knew too much what was going on and got out of Dodge!

we too, work a full time job, but it does not take a rocket scientist to answer a few questions. If you knew the company was ripping people off, why did you continue to work for them? Why did you not report them? These are our dreams of owning a pool, working VERY hard to earn money to make our families happy, only to have the dreams turn into nightmares.
158 days ago by Gregw [send email]
Does anyone know the current addresses of John Jr and Sr?
158 days ago by Pissed Off [send email]
I know where they should be-Leesburg! The PRISON!
158 days ago by Feeling Sorry [send email]
Try 932 Adams Ave Mays Landing, N.J. 08330.

that was the address that was used in 2005 when John Jr. operated as Tropical Pools. The phone # 609-625-1800 and fax # 609-625-1266 were at one point listed as belonging to this address. It's possibly his girlfiend's or her mothers address. I would hope that after ABC came knocking on the door she kicked him to the curb. Maybe he's living in one of the brand new trucks.
158 days ago by Anonymous Person [send email]
Dencil mentioned several times to me that he was going to come out and pour my concrete too, he would say something like "Well maybe I'll just have to come out there myself on Thursday to pour your concrete. I had to do that with so-and-so's pool just last week."

Of course then he would stop taking my phone calls and disappear for a few weeks....and one of the other three stooges would finally call me back to lie to me some more about why they couldn't finish up.

I wonder if he has ever poured one square foot of concrete in his life. I wonder if he has ever installed a pool either, I can tell you he was nowhere in sight when my pool arrived.
158 days ago by Pissed Off [send email]
He showed up to collect the BIG check, after the pool was dropped. That was the only time he was at our home, besides signing the contract
158 days ago by Randy Tattersall [send email]
Same with me! Same story.
157 days ago by Gearge [send email]
At least you guys got returned calls from these crooks. Since our contract signing in on June 11th we've yet to hear from anyone. After numerous calls and visits, the only person I talked to was John Sr, whose number I got from someone who posted it here. He was pissed we were defaming his son online. Castaway phone number in Vineland is disconnected now.

I need a close up picture of John Jr face, if anyone has it, or know where I can get it. The only picture I have of him is on that machinery magazine standing next to a job site. Not clear enough.
157 days ago by Anonymous Person [send email]
I am sure you can get the mugshot photo of John from Nydia Han of 6ABC, since it was in that video that they did. Gearge, sorry if I am asking the obvious... but have you called the cops in your town...
157 days ago by Pissed Off [send email]
John Sr was pissed because his son was being defamming him on the internet... what did they do to all of us, we were DEFRAUDED! Promised things that never happened. I know that promises are made to be broken, but this was/is FRAUD! 2-3 weeks for the pool to be complete..BS! Calling without answering the phones... BS How about caller ID, they looked at the name and let is go to voice mail only when you called back on your cell, the phone was ANSWERED!, but no one was ever there. Go figure, they were that busy not to answer phone calls?? What about no subcontractors? They had a great group that did their concrete work. Our concrete looks like Ray Charles poured it, you know the blind guy. We have all uneven edges, mulch in the concrete, the stones are sticking through all around the pool edge, there is duct tape & styrofoam in the corners of the pool, the white expansion joints stick up one one side of the pool, so if you aren't careful, you'll trip.

The leak in the lines is still another thing. The problems with the permits, our pool being shut down by the building inspector, letters from the BBB & Township, still all go unanswered. And yes, you know, Midge, Kalai, Willie Jr, Dave, Bernie, Denny and the pool guys, all knew, what we were going through and sat back and did nothing. Am I pissed your damn right I am.
156 days ago by Bob Villa [send email]
I'm working on the mug shot for John Dalrymple. It might take me a couple of days.

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