Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies
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#2TL;DR for the article: Huge margins and outsourced manufacturing and logistics.
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#3Mattress-packing via machine pix:
https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521
Instead of merely airing the bed each morning I run a dehumidifer. Hopefully this will reduce mould & mites. Now HN can tell me why my personal mattress hack is a bad idea.
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#4An evolved form of drop shipping.
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#5I don't know if this has any impact, but thinking about it, a mattress is a possession that can't be easily transported in a car, or even, by someone who doesn't have a car. I imagine that as people become more mobile and choose to have fewer possessions, it might be easier to simply abandon their mattress and have a new one shipped to their new location.
Re: Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies
#6Mattress-packing via machine pix: https://twitter.com/machinepix/status/965691925712875521 Instead of merely airing the bed each morning I run a dehumidifer. Hopefully this will reduce mould & mites. Now HN can tell me why my personal mattress hack is a bad idea.
At last I have an excuse for not making the bed in the morning. ;-)
When my kids were tots and we took them to day care, the day care center had a collection of little beds for naps, which were some kind of durable fabric mesh stretched over a frame. I've often wondered how that would work as a general purpose mattress for adults, with little chance of festering over time.
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#7Reminds me of something called "Made for Outlet." Popular brands license their logos to third parties who make low quality goods. It has the label and the store has the name, but it's cheap junk worth a fraction of the price they're selling it for.
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#8I don't know if this has any impact, but thinking about it, a mattress is a possession that can't be easily transported in a car, or even, by someone who doesn't have a car. I imagine that as people become more mobile and choose to have fewer possessions, it might be easier to simply abandon their mattress and have a new one shipped to their new location.
I used to buy foam Ikea mattresses specifically because they compress and roll up well. That allowed me to move from place to place with a normal car.
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#9Somewhat ironic that the article comments about MemoryFoamTalk not disclosing comissions from Nectar and then provides an (undisclosed) affiliate link.
I have a Leesa as it was the only mattress (at the time) which fit my bed properly. The fact that all these companies can offer 100-365 day trials does hint at how stupidly large the margins are.
Re: Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies
#10I don't know if this has any impact, but thinking about it, a mattress is a possession that can't be easily transported in a car, or even, by someone who doesn't have a car. I imagine that as people become more mobile and choose to have fewer possessions, it might be easier to simply abandon their mattress and have a new one shipped to their new location.
I used to buy foam Ikea mattresses specifically because they compress and roll up well. That allowed me to move from place to place with a normal car.
I have such a bed. Getting it home was easy. But how do you actually compress it and roll it again? It's kinda become huge. What do you do?