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What happens to 30-day-trial air adj beds
You've seen the ads on TV and heard them on the radio for air-adjustable beds. They're marketed by companies who sound like "Select" and "Posture". A few years ago I was solicited by one of those companies to buy one of their $2000 beds. They offered a 30 day (or 90 day) return policy on their bed. I asked them how many people actually return them. They put me in touch with the co. president who told me it was about 5-10 percent of yearly sales. So I asked him what happens to the beds that are returned. He says they are sold to employees at a discounted price. I did the math and told him that with the 30 or so employees (I forget the number) that after a few months based on their sales and returns, employees would have to buy a horrendous amount of used beds. He didn't like that. He said okay, we bring them back and rework them. "REWORK them?" I asked in toatl amazement. "Yes we strip the top layer that comes in contact with people and install new". "Sure you do" was my response. He finally admitted that if it didn't look too bad they would only replace what they felt was the minimum. I then asked that if that is the case, then I could potentially be geting a bed that has been bought and resold many, many times over. He knew I was right and quickly transferred my call to a lady sales rep. I ended the call without buying one.
Has anyone else thought about this or am I the only one? How is it that a company can sell something as "new" when in fact it has possibly been owned by several people possibly for many years whose hygiene may not be as good or better than your own (bed bugs, bed wetting etc.)?
Really, no one else should have had their butt on my bed to begin with.
Along that line, but with a different result I have been told that power tool mfg's. like DeWalt sell "refurbished" when in fact they are perfectly good tools that the company wants to get into the main stream of sales at a discounted price. (I know there are tools that are really refurbished i.e., used-and-abused returns and I don't have a problem with that---I buy them all the time).
What's your experience? (Mind if I use your bed for 30 days---I promise to return it---it'll be just like new)
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KT: That's my point about getting past the law. I'm not so sure that anyone's really done any thinking about this.
Years ago I bought a nearly $50 1/2" ratchet from Sears. It was warranteed. I broke it (my buddy and I were standing on a 4' pipe with it for leverage). Brought it back and they gave me a much-used, completely different one that had been refurbished. I pitched a bitch and they finally gave me a new new one. Snap-On tools is a different story; you break it and get a brand new one (they figure you were raped on the last one so that's the LEAST they could do) (my very rich buddy was a Snap-On route dealer----3.2M gross a year for 13 years---his take: 30% of the gross)
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broken: Could you sleep on crunchy 12mil plastic to test it? But to address your question, they never mentioned anything about any covering---rather they went ot great pains to tell me what hey supposedly remove and replace. Unless they replace everything it ain't new---sort of like buying a "new" tire that's actually a recap.
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Souds like the states' Attorneys General finally put a stop to selling them as new! Grrrreat!
Now...(itch, itch, itch----swat, swat, swat) where did I leave that bedbug spray? No biggie--I'll call the company in the morning and have them come pick up this "bedbug incubator" formerly known as an air-adjustable bed...hahahahaha
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