Shopping for a mattress is an absurd frustrating experience
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We have started to search for a mattress and it is the most frustrating experience I may have ever had in my life! If other big ticket items were not comparable from store A to store B, people would go insane. Imagine a base Ford Focus at one dealer has an entirely different name at another car dealer! It is what the mattress retailers do and get away with it. I had one retailer say and this is a quote, "it is done to really protect the stores from a shopper going from store to store trying to negotiate the best price." What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't that what happens in a capitalist business model? My customers are always shopping me. Thirty years ago I had a client that owned a mattress making shop. He told me that the time to make a mattress was minimal and the raw materials cost was minimal. So why am I seeing $2,000, $3,000 or higher mattress pieces? High prices and you can not even comparison shop. This is a rigged game from the get-go and I am not enjoying it .....nope not one bit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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IanS wrote: <BR>the $800 dollar mattresses that are sold for $3,000 just by adding $50 dollars of foam and calling them "pillow-top" so they can then be sold at a "50% off" deal... I've only been shopping for a new mattress for 2 days, but this has become a pet peeve as I shop. WTF is it with this trend of foam pillowtops? I don't get it. With people complaining in various reviews for years now (that I've found, reading up), these foam pillowtops do not last. I bought a "traditional" pillowtop 10 years ago, it was filled with just some kind of soft material (NOT memory foam) and while I was worried it wouldn't last and would indent or compress, it never did. And now most companies don't make this kind anymore? This is insane. |
Re: Shopping for a mattress is an absurd frustrating experience
| Sure. They want to knock your socks off with something that feels heavenly in the store. And then when you fall for it they want to sell you another one in a few years because they've designed it to be serviceable for a fraction of the time a mattress used to be. Someone in marketing figured out that they weren't turning a big enough profit selling realistically priced mattresses that last for 20 years. |
Re: Shopping for a mattress is an absurd frustrating experience
| Ah yes, the "Bill Gates" method of business. Keep improving and build in a kind of obsolescence so people have to buy more often... |
Re: Shopping for a mattress is an absurd frustrating experience
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Here's the facts: PU foam dies. IME, within about three months, if that. It might look okay, feel okay to your hand, but it is not supportive anymore. 10 years out of a mattress? I wish!!!! Best option(latex mattresses don't work for me either...they are too boingy)is to find a reputable, independant, quality mattress maker and have one made. Ideally the foam will be removable if you have it in the bed. They make mattresses with cotton batting these days too, like they used to. If you have a mattress you like, but it is worn out, you could try cutting it open and finding out what's inside... what works for you. There are several different types of springs, different box springs, and layers above. I have cut my latest mattress open and exchanged one foam for another repeatedly. I think my problem is the springs are individual marshall units, and they don't seem to support my heavier butt as well as I need. Last night I put a rather firm piece of plastic on top of the coils only in the middle. Not so much back pain, but my hips didn't appreciate it. Sigh. One day I will figure this all out. I did just speak with a nice man in Santa Cruz at Bay Bed and Mattress. They might be able to help me. kait |