If you purchase an INTEX Easy Set pool, and you live in a region that requires you to take the pool down for the winter, you should understand that you are essentially purchasing a $100 disposable pool.  The pool will not make it through the winter stored in the garage without cracking.  We purchased an Easy Set pool in July, 2009, took it down in September, 2009, and then tried to set it up again in May, 2010.  The morning after we set up the pool, we discovered that the inflatable ring that keeps the pool from spilling out had gone completely flat because it was riddled with little pin-prick sized holes.  After spending two-weeks trying to indentify and patch all of the little holes (I stopped after patching 8 of them), I finally emptied the pool and threw it in the garbage in disgust.  The Easy Set pools only carry a 90-day warranty, which I learned only after calling INTEX customer service.  (Nowhere could I find warranty information in the materials that came with the pool.)  Not only was INTEX unwilling to send me a new pool, they wouldn't even send me a coupon for a discount on another pool.  Now I have to decide if I want to spend another $100 on a disposable pool, or if I should just take my daughter to the lake.  It seems like such a waste to have to throw these things in a landfill just because of a "few" little holes.