The War to Sell You a Mattress Is an Internet Nightmare

Glad I read that, now all of the ads on my computer are for mattresses........

 

Nice cover up @dadbolt

 

Only halfway done with the article, but I would like to note that I am all too familiar with Derek and his slender body.....

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.....what I mean is I watched so many of his reviews(and reviews from other sites) around 6 months ago when I was shopping for a mattress I went cross-eyed. I actually just ended up finding a good deal in town on a mattress and went with that. Yes I paid a bit more, but not much. I was inundated with mattresses and couldn't decide. Every mattress sounded good or bad at points.

(side note, I do not like the mattress I bought in town and wasn't able to swap it out. I would have been able to swap it out when I decided I didn't like it around the 2 month mark but my wife threw away the carbon copy papers we signed that was neeeded for exchange. I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a mattress topper but haven't pulled the trigger yet)

 

shit

 

I love this, thanks for posting. I have seen 2 Leesa ads (facebook and yahoo) in the minutes since reading the ad, ha

 

omg I wanted to buy a mattress in the near future but not like this!!

 

That was a wild read, just bought a Casper a couple months back and I'm really liking it. Crazy that Mattress Reviews is such a lucrative business

 

Wouldn't have expected an article about the online mattress industry to be this fascinating.

 

Can't help but think that the wider take away from this is that none of us should ever trust a review of anything ever again.

 

this was such a great read first thing in the morning. i would have never guessed online mattresses were such an insane industry. we need to buy one soon and have been considering casper, but idk about that now, haha.

 

I wonder how much of this goes on at Wirecutter. I love Consumer Reports but they don’t review enough products in enough categories I care about.

 

I was researching mattresses about a year and a half ago after my wife and I got a house. It's nightmare lol. It's impossible to find reviews that don't seem incredibly shady. All of them have links that clearly benefit the reviewer if you purchase the mattress. The best info I found was on Reddit since that was at least probably normal people giving their opinion.

I still ended up getting an online mattress though because they are way cheaper than similar mattresses at the store, and going to the store sucks as well. Ironic that one of the main draws of online mattresses is that you can avoid the sleaze involved in the process.

All that said we do like the mattress we got quite a bit, so there's that.

 

As surprising as this is, it really isn't?

In the internet age of commerce, one person jumps in with a new idea, and the market INSTANTLY becomes oversaturated (ride sharing, connected home devices/speakers, even toothbrushes). And what comes with that is a lack of oversight.

It forces these companies to be cutthroat (well, that's problematic wording because nobody is makign them but you know what i mean). Each day a new wild west industry crops up, I suspect someone could write a story like this every single day about e-commerce.

My fiancee and I will be looking for a new mattress for the first time as a couple and I was worried before, but now I'm worried that I'm being lied to for everyone else's gain but mine. The return process is attractive, but as a NYC-er, the thought of having to store a bad mattress in a one bedroom apartment and get another one is just as daunting as paying extra at a store.

 

if you don't mind me asking, what brand did you go with?

 

This might've been supposed to quote me haha. Sorry if not! But we went with a relaxed firm king size Loom & Leaf. It's pricier than a lot of the ones that come in a box ($1500 for ours w/ delivery), but it really does feel like a $5000 Tempurpedic bed or whatever.

 

Haven't read every word of an article that long in quite some time...when's the Movie coming out?

 

What. The. Fuck.

Also my Casper is comfortable as hell.

Edit: Favorite part of the article:
“When he gave me two decimal places,” said Samantha, “he had me hooked.”

 

Love my Casper. Have a king and it is more comfortable than most high end hotel mattresses.

Haven’t tried the others but assume they are prob close in quality.

I know a girl on the product marketing team at Casper and she alluded to some of this last time I saw her...but not to this extent. Absolutely bonkers.

 

My guess would be probably none (disclaimer: I have worked with Jacqui Cheng in the past). They don't need the extra money and do a good job of keeping everything updated and changed. I trust them to usually recommend the top few things in each category, even if I disagree, they usually have what I would recommend up there pretty high.

 

yes, whoops you're correct i did mean you. Thanks for the info, im preemptively gathering all the knowledge i can! especially now since it seems all of the reviewers are crooks.

 

I read this and an article about contestants on supermarket sweep the same day and I felt so blessed to read two fascinating while somehow also mundane articles

 

I've honestly seen so many mattress ads since I read this yesterday, on social media, side bars, etc, they got me

 

Yeah, it's a trip trying to decide which one to get lol. Like I said, we like the Loom & Leaf a lot but from all the stuff I read the Leesa seems to be really well liked for the most part and is about 600 cheaper. Everyone that I actually know who has a Casper seems to like it quite a bit as well. So maybe ultimately they're all just similar mattresses designed to be comfortable to most people and it doesn't really matter what you choose.

Good luck on the search!

 

It's really hard to read this descriptive of a post in Vincent Adultman's voice