Some general facts about the mattress industry for you

- most name brand manufacturers have a competitive interest in dominating a showroom floor. In order to accomplish this they may give extra bonuses to specific mattresses sold, beef up the co-op advertising on certain mattresses and provide other customized bonuses to individual stores to keep themselves dominate

- stores that advertise any guarantee regarding matching or beating other stores prices - a word to the wise- alot of these guarantees come with alot of disclaimers AND alot of the mattresses carried in those stores have exclusive rights to carry those particular mattresses. Be sure to ask for examples of instances when they were able to follow through on their claim- and be sure to get the customers phone number to call them direct. Please let us know if you are able to accomplish this.

-most mattress stores salepeople work on commission- some don't even get paid a commision at all unless they sell an individual item for $2500 and up. This may explain why you may be shown the most expensive mattresses in the store first.

- why is the mattress industry so competitve? Everyone needs a mattress! If you are not interested in high overhead costs, high advertising costs, brand name retail 'sales' prices, and fancy decor- then finding your next quality mattress for less may be found at Discount Mattress in Amherst.