Reply to Pinch-a-Penny.com 3 line Rejection Letter

Below is my reply to the narrow minded 3 line flat out product "rejection letter" by www.PinchaPenny.com, a large +100 store retailer based in Florida. My goal here is to expose the stale backward anti-conservationist fat cat thinking that's running (and ruining) our corporations in the pool industry.

Trying to be a nice guy just doesn't work in good ole boy country club world of narcissistic executives. So I am rolling up my sleeves and taking it to the streets.

Help me in the call for:
NATIONAL WATER CONSERVATION LEGISLATION TO MANDATE POOL COVERS ON ALL POOLS.
Just 200 pools using covers can save 3.5 million gallons of water every year for an estimated 200 BILLION gallons nationwide. If you don't care about drought, what's the cost of the energy to produce that drinking water?

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-- the reply --

Hello Tammy, you seemed like a very nice gal on the phone but now I have to state my peace and does not reflect on you personally, but your company.

I just got a "three sentence" rejection letter from Curt Van Leuven stating he doesn't feel my product will generate any interest. I am so insulted that there is no discussion even by your company considering severe drought in GA and the increased focus on water conservation. I have 100's of satisfied customers, and to say there isn't any interest in saving water with drought looming in many places and the energy it takes to produce water, is pure idiocy to say it lightly.

I am not even going to try for a round two with your company, but am fighting head on the attitudes of disinterest toward water conservation in the pool industry, especially by retailers like you. One way of doing this is my http://twitter.com/solarfactory ability to rant and rage against the attitudes of resellers and industry publishers alike, calling it like it is publically and specifically the disinterest toward water conservation by www.pinchapenny.com.

I shall continue to call out awareness of your abject rejection concerning such an important issue as water conservation and that it means so little to you that you can reply with a three line rejection letter when I have spent 20 years of my life fighting for the patents, fighting to protect my trademark getting an injunction against Swimline, selling my home to spend 1/4 million dollars on inventory of over 3000 units sitting in my warehouse, and by the spirit of your letter I should just give up...that there's no interest in such a dumb product as mine!

So I am rolling up my sleeves and you should note to Google for your name in my fight for water conservation and how you don't mind selling Sun Rings that are slow to remove, have a high return rate, are expensive, blow around in winds, bunch up at the end of the pool, don't provide full coverage, take 10 minutes to fish out of the pools only to sit on your deck like a pile of pancakes, and yet you turn your nose up at the Solar Roller that has almost no returns, a high customer satisfaction rate, cost less, works in under 30 seconds, and weighs less than a 3 year old kid because the heavy water drains out the end, and can even roll and stay in the pool for virtually no work at all to use. Plus the patented Solar Roller makes using a pool cover completely safe because you cannot be engulfed by the split-cover solution, and that it provide a ridge of support spanning the cover sections.

Moreover, the old days of narcissistic fat cats sitting in their back rooms making decisions that have no respect for the little guys is over in the age of the internet. My goal is to work with legislation to make covers a mandate, just like it took VGBA legislation to save lives, and I will use this letter as evidence of rejection by the pool industry of innovators trying to provide conservation solutions.

Isn't it irony that the granddaughter of former Secretary of State James Baker had to die before the industry would do the right thing with preventing drain entrapments. So is the pool industry...but look for change in the making.

Thank you,

David Hoff, Inventor CEO
Solar Factory Pool Products, Inc
Folsom, CA 95630
http://solarfactory.com