{"id":490355,"date":"2010-03-30T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003898"},"modified":"2010-03-30T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:35:18","slug":"video-why-you-should-never-pay-full-price-for-a-mattress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490355","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Why You Should Never Pay Full Price For A Mattress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/mattressvideo-thumb-250x141-38740.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Of all the high-ticket prices available for your home, one that our bookish cousin Consumer Reports won&#8217;t rate is your mattress, because everyone&#8217;s particular mattress needs are subjective. But that doesn&#8217;t mean CR won&#8217;t investigate whether or not customers are getting their money&#8217;s worth when they spring for their mattresses.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer Reports dissected 11 spring mattresses and found that &#8220;they&#8217;re pretty much constructed the same,&#8221; and that the extra money is going mostly to more padding and nicer materials. &#8220;But to most people, you probably can&#8217;t tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/21495733001?isVid=1&#038;publisherID=1078702682\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=72098199001&#038;playerID=21495733001&#038;domain=embed&#038;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/21495733001?isVid=1&#038;publisherID=1078702682\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=72098199001&#038;playerID=21495733001&#038;domain=embed&#038;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nBecause your sleep needs are so personal, CR advises you to never order your mattress online or over the phone. <\/p>\n<p>Also, says CR, you shouldn&#8217;t be paying anywhere near full price for your mattress. In fact, they advise on not paying anything over 50% of the original selling price. So wait for sales and continue to haggle even then, because the mark-up on mattresses is huge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/video-hub\/home--garden\/bed--bath\/getting-the-right-mattress\/16935265001\/72098199001\/\" >Getting the Right Mattress<\/a> [Consumer Reports]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the high-ticket prices available for your home, one that our bookish cousin Consumer Reports won&#8217;t rate is your mattress, because everyone&#8217;s particular mattress needs are subjective. But that doesn&#8217;t mean CR won&#8217;t investigate whether or not customers are getting their money&#8217;s worth when they spring for their mattresses. Consumer Reports dissected 11 spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}