The Truth About Shopping For Mattresses

[SamTheMan 7]

I just want to share my experience when I was selling mattresses.

What most retailers won't tell you is that all mattress manufacturers offer a sales incentive to salespeople to sell their mattresses.

The incentives given by the top brands such as Sealy and Simmons are generally not very high because their brand alone will generate the sales.

For newer brands or brands without a solid reputation, the manufacturers will give the salespeople very high incentives to push their product, it can even go as high as 10% of the final selling price of the mattress. So imagine if you spent $1000 on your mattress, $100 goes to paying the salesperson.

So if you are in the market for a mattress, the last person you should listen to is the salesperson in the showroom. Their recommendation will always be the brand that gives them the best incentive not the brand that produces the best mattress or the brand that will best suit your needs.

It will be safer to go to retailers that carry only a single brand of mattress, at least they will be promoting the product that you are most likely to buy or to large retailers that have promoters from the manufacturers promoting the products from one manufacturers.

My 2 cents worth.

[shamgar 0]

I just want to share my experience when I was selling mattresses.

What most retailers won't tell you is that all mattress manufacturers offer a sales incentive to salespeople to sell their mattresses.

The incentives given by the top brands such as Sealy and Simmons are generally not very high because their brand alone will generate the sales.

For newer brands or brands without a solid reputation, the manufacturers will give the salespeople very high incentives to push their product, it can even go as high as 10% of the final selling price of the mattress. So imagine if you spent $1000 on your mattress, $100 goes to paying the salesperson.

So if you are in the market for a mattress, the last person you should listen to is the salesperson in the showroom. Their recommendation will always be the brand that gives them the best incentive not the brand that produces the best mattress or the brand that will best suit your needs.

It will be safer to go to retailers that carry only a single brand of mattress, at least they will be promoting the product that you are most likely to buy or to large retailers that have promoters from the manufacturers promoting the products from one manufacturers.

My 2 cents worth.

Thanks for the advice, i feel buying mattress is the toughest choice that I will have to make and I am still making...

[smurfzzz 0]

Check out this article: http://www.slate.com/id/93956/

It has an interesting and honest view about mattress, which I agree that what-so-ever diamond/gold/platinum... blah blah blah mattress are all nothing but marketing gimmicks. Many buyers tend to be over obsessed with the technical specs (which they might not even really understand at all) or brands, end of the day, just find one that is most comfortable to you.

As stated in the article:

Conclusion

If you can't tell the difference between a $200 and a $900 mattress (I couldn't, but maybe you can), get the cheaper one. They're nearly the same, anyway. Anything over $1,500 and you're just paying for prestige, says Larry Thomas. There are tons of great mattress sets for low prices. Yes, to an extent, you get what you pay for (better coil design, denser foam, ritzier ticking), but don't go crazy over this stuff. Lie down on mattesses in the store and trust your own judgment. Remember: Once you're asleep, every mattress feels the same.

[fuxiang 0]

I just want to share my experience when I was selling mattresses.

What most retailers won't tell you is that all mattress manufacturers offer a sales incentive to salespeople to sell their mattresses.

The incentives given by the top brands such as Sealy and Simmons are generally not very high because their brand alone will generate the sales.

For newer brands or brands without a solid reputation, the manufacturers will give the salespeople very high incentives to push their product, it can even go as high as 10% of the final selling price of the mattress. So imagine if you spent $1000 on your mattress, $100 goes to paying the salesperson.

So if you are in the market for a mattress, the last person you should listen to is the salesperson in the showroom. Their recommendation will always be the brand that gives them the best incentive not the brand that produces the best mattress or the brand that will best suit your needs.

It will be safer to go to retailers that carry only a single brand of mattress, at least they will be promoting the product that you are most likely to buy or to large retailers that have promoters from the manufacturers promoting the products from one manufacturers.

My 2 cents worth.

u can go to TradeHub 21, there is one particular shop selling only Dunlopillow. You can find almost the whole collection.