Story of a False Craigslist Mattress Ad

Occasionally a homeowner realizes they require an additional mattress for an unexpected guest. They have the room, even a frame, but this guest requires an actual bed not an air mattress. Possibly it's a mother-in-law or old friend, but this guest definitely isn't going to be sleeping on an inflatable mattress tossed on the floor.

Craigslist.com, which may be the go- to for decorating numerous apartments and very first homes, is really an excellent choice to discover an inexpensive gently utilized mattress. It may even be from a grandparent's house as they downgrade to a much more manageable condo. You will also find less reputable people there. Some are so-called companies that set up shop and do some unscrupulous advertising in the online classifieds section. The tactic is bait and switch. It's really simple for mattresses as there are numerous levels of comfort and ease, and degrees of firmness.

An eye catching cost is mentioned within the ad and possibly $70 for any new pillow top twin mattress or $80 for any full sized mattress. The cost is going to be definitely worth calling about. Once the appointment is made, the client finds instead of one or two mattresses, a whole mini show floor. There is really a nice pillow top mattress just as the customer walks in that's striking and plump. Testing for comfort and ease goes marvelously; the item is fine and just as the offer is about to be struck the cost is revealed.

The previously advertised $70 or $80 dollars isn't quoted, but some figure 3 to 4 times that amount. The bed so admired isn't the advertised one, but a significantly higher end mattress. Down the client walks; down the walk of shame, down the marketplace in the direction of a lower end mattress in the end of the row of mattresses. Walking in the direction of a mattress full of metal and lacking cotton or even polyester fillings. This surely is the advertised mattress. But alas the salesperson points towards the floor where an old fashioned floral printed plank lies.

The client is regaled that men do not mind the firm mattress so significantly simply because their body weight compensates. When asked about the pillow top, terms like European style come to their lips. Simply because in Europe they're apparently accustomed to sleeping on bare springs with a thin sheet of floral polyester to protect their hardy skin. Gulags come to mind, definitely not Parisian comfort and ease. Time may be wasted, not even a mother-in-law would sleep on this bed and definitely not an old friend who would definitely prefer an inflatable mattress or a hide-a-bed discovered on the roadside, to this wire contraption. The bait may be laid and if the client is desperate they will switch up. Possibly not towards the first mattress just within the door, which is mostly for ooohing over, not selling, but halfway between where the cost is "just right" and comfort and ease isn't too overly compromised.