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Shopping for a mattress is an absurd frustrating experience
Aug 12, 2008 3:50 PM
urdrwho
Joined: Aug 12, 2008
Points: 1
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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