Best Kept Secrets

What about Bob?
Let us tell you about Bob, to us it’s almost as entertaining as the movie comedy starring Bill Murray.

Little ole country bumpkin Bob and his cohorts are masterful marketers, spending millions upon millions of dollars advertising no-name furniture and bedding.

With Regards to Bedding
It’s the biggest smoke and mirrors show going. The veiled pitch is that Bob’s very own generic mattresses are the same as a famous "S" brands’ mattresses without the expensive label. The truth is that while Bob’s mattresses are made in the same Serta factory by the same Serta workers with a few of the same Serta ingredients, it most certainly is NOT a Serta product. None of Bob’s "very own" mattress sets contain the unique patented features and exotic upholstery components that constitute an authentic Serta Perfect Sleeper set.

Sizzle Without the Steak
With Bob’s "very own" mattresses, it’s all about the sizzle with little or nothing to do with the steak. His watered down imitations of the "S" brands are just that. While they might look and feel great, don’t be fooled…they’re not going to last.

What About the Warranty?
What about the warranty? Yeah, sure there is a warranty, in fact in some cases it’s twice that of the "S" brands. But take a closer look. It’s not a Serta warranty. It’s a Bob’s "limited warranty" that’s chock full of IF’s, AND’s or BUT’s!

Count on Better Bedding
Nothing is more important to your health and well being than a good night’s sleep. You can count on Better Bedding, a local family owned business with a heralded 26 year history, and trust that the brands we carry offer the very best value in today’s mattress market.

Mattress Consumer Alert: Sliding Scale Commission Scheme

Beware of stores whose pricing and sales policies are based on a sliding scale commission scheme. What does sliding scale commission mean? It’s a ploy designed to maximize the store and salesperson’s profit at your expense.

Here’s How They Play the Game
First, the sleazy store employing this tactic will hike up their prices artificially. For example, they’ll take a queen set that Better Bedding would have on sale at $699 and tag a comparable model on their showroom floor for $999. Considering that to some extent a mattress purchase is a blind purchase, meaning you can’t look inside and know for certain what it might be equivalent to in other stores, you might actually get duped into buying it for $999. In this case the sleazy store just made a dishonest $300 additional profit. The sleazy store’s accomplice, Joe or Jane salesperson, made a 10% commission or $100 on a simple queen set sale, and you got screwed.

What’s the 2nd scenario?
Sleazy salesperson senses that you’re suspecting something smells funny and before you can sniff it out, the price drops $100 to $899 or maybe even $200 to an incredulous $799! You might say to yourself that, well even if the original $999 queen set price is higher than Better Bedding’s, surely it couldn’t be that much higher and you take the bait and bite.

Well here is what you swallowed.
You paid $100 to $200 more than you should have. The sleazy store again enjoys an outrageous additional profit, albeit $100 or $200 less, but this is where it gets interesting. Poor sleazy salesperson’s commission percentage drops precipitously and thus he walks away with only one half the money he would have if he was able to hold you at the $999 price. But sleazy salesperson says to himself that half a loaf is better than no loaf at all and looks to the next victim.

What about Better Bedding?
Better Bedding is a local family owned business that enjoys an illustrious 26 year history of honest and fair dealing with all of our customers. John and Tom Wholley have grown up and live in this community. Along with all Better Bedding employees they remain steadfast in protecting their reputation for honest and fair business practices.

This Mattress Consumer Advisory is brought to you by Better Bedding.

John and Tom Wholley