Furniture Wholesale Costs, Don’t waste your time searching the Internet to find wholesale costs on new mattresses or new furniture. Unlike the automobile industry, the furniture industry is a secretive, closed community. They jealously guard against you or anyone else discovering wholesale cost information. This enables furniture retailers to: Charge more for their merchandise. Completely ignore the actual cost of an item when figuring a selling price and Make it more difficult for the average shopper to make price comparisons. Furniture Prices, Don’t be fooled by the “same” piece of furniture being offered at different stores at drastically different prices. There are three possible reasons you might see this. The first, and obvious, answer is that one store simply charges higher prices for its merchandise. The second reason is that one store’s selling price includes services, like free delivery, that are not included in first store’s price. The third possible reason is the scariest. Furniture manufacturers often copy each other’s best selling styles. When they do, they sometimes remove a few of the unseen quality construction features built into the original. Worse yet, the best quality and poorest quality piece may both be offered at the same price! (That means more profit for the retailer.) Unless you know how to tell the difference, you could easily pay the high quality price for the poor quality piece. Buying a Mattress, Be wary when buying a mattress from a retailer that offers you a satisfaction or “comfort” guarantee. Major mattress manufacturers do not allow retailers to return to them mattresses that customers simply did not find comfortable. Regardless of what you may think, the major name brand bedding manufacturers do not rebuild new mattresses from old ones. Let’s say your neighbor (you know, the one who only bathes on holidays) purchases a new mattress from a store that offers a “satisfaction” guarantee. He, and his dog, sleep on it for a week and decide that it just isn’t comfortable. He returns the mattress to the store for a different model. You then go to the same store and happen to buy the same model your neighbor just returned. The store, since it cannot return your neighbor’s mattress to the manufacturer, can simply deliver it to you. The store is happy because it got rid of the returned mattress. You are happy because you are sleeping on a mattress that you think is factory fresh. YUUUGH! Home Furnishings Quality, Just buying a brand name you know is no guarantee you’re getting the best quality. For example, let’s say XYZ furniture manufacturer makes bedroom furniture. In order to sell as wide a range of furniture retailers as possible, they will make some of their bedroom patterns. in GOOD quality. some in BETTER quality. and some in their BEST quality. Unless you know how to spot the differences, you could be fooled into paying too much for the quality you’re getting just because you bought a recognized brand name. SOMETHING YOU SHOULD NOTE: Most bedding manufacturers have converted their product lines to one-sided mattresses since Tip #5 was posted in 1999. Keep in mind this does NOT mean that one-sided mattresses are better. Just more profitable! One-Sided, “No-Flip” Mattresses, Don’t buy a “one-sided” mattress unless you have a really good reason for doing so. One-sided, “no-flip” mattresses have several benefits. Most of which go to the manufacturer and/or retailer. (In the form of increased profits.) Think about it for a minute. Look at the underneath side of a “no-flip” mattress. You couldn’t turn it over if you “wanted” to. You’re buying a mattress with only “one side”. (Most two-sided mattresses today do not require you to “flip” the mattress to maintain the warranty provisions. Ask your retailer.) (Also ask the salesperson how deep, in inches, a “body impression” must be before your one-sided mattress is considered “defective” under their warranty.) And take it from someone who’s seen one of these new “one-sided” mattresses torn apart...the very same materials are being used to make BOTH one and two-sided mattresses. There are no new, “revolutionary” materials in there.
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