Bought my pool as soon as it hit Wal-Mart. Just getting around to putting it up due to it rained everyday for over a month. I pulled the pump out of the box and hooked it all up and went to check to see if it came with a filter. That's when I noticed the lod to the pump is broken so I still can't use my pool. When you spend close to $900 on a pool you don't expect it to be non usable. So I'm defiantly not happy when I have 5 teenagers who want to swim before summer is over. My sister just put her pool up same pool and their pump was also broken but was able to use flex tape to fix it. User's recommendation: Do better packaging on pumps. Make sure they are packaged properly.