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comment by tehstone
tehstone  ·  3326 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mattress Scam: A Consumer's Guide to a Shady Industry

I needed a mattress about a year ago, and not knowing any better I went to the store that advertises incessantly on local radio (sometimes I have doubts about my intelligence). It was a great mattress but I soon regretted the huge amount of money I had spent on it. A couple of months later I unexpectedly had to move and moving that mattress would have been a huge ordeal. Luckily, the store has a 3 month return policy, 100% money back and they send a truck to pick it up.

Of course what they don't tell you upfront is that, should you choose to take advantage of this policy, your name will be flagged in their computer system and you will never be allowed to return anything you purchase from them again. That's fine with me, I was able to find the exact same mattress from an outlet store for less than 1/3rd what I had paid the first time (which still was kind of a lot).

PS does this guy realize that keyword targeted ads mean that every ad on his site is for mattresses?





firethief  ·  3325 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    PS does this guy realize that keyword targeted ads mean that every ad on his site is for mattresses?

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