with these signs you see by the road that selling Queen size mattresses for $150 with some random phone number as a contact?

is it some scam? its just weird that its never any other mattress size and its ALWAYS 150 dollars for the set

7/8/2012 1:52:28 PM

I actually bought a guest bedroom set from one of these.

It's some kind of fly-by-night wholesaler thing. The furniture is not super great quality, nor are the mattresses.

They had rented a spot out at the air park, and it was just a desk in a warehouse full of wrapped furniture/mattresses. We paid, and they delivered our stuff the next day.

The entire time, I had this wierd sketchy vibe like we were about to be kidnapped and murdered, but I think you will have less of a problem with that.

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7/8/2012 1:55:50 PM

...with my brain? Why am i so obviously insane?

7/8/2012 2:02:53 PM

I, too, have wondered this. Seems like it's either a bait-and-switch or a used mattress that's been recovered. Or in more rare situations, legit.

http://www.wwaytv3.com/troubleshooters_roadside_mattress_set_advertisement/12/2008

http://ask.metafilter.com/102025/Cheap-mattresses

7/8/2012 2:06:43 PM

cheap junk furniture. same stuff as those guys sitting in a parking lot with a box truck and a bunch of recliners and couches and stuff.

7/8/2012 2:08:05 PM

...with airline food?

7/8/2012 2:39:52 PM

thank goodness we got the most predictable post out of the way finally

7/8/2012 2:41:40 PM

I did this. Paid 100 bucks for a box spring and a mattress when i got to law school. I picked out which one I wanted from a public storage place in a bad part of Norfolk.

They delivered the damn things at 1am. The delivery guy then proceeded to tell me he'd "deliver" anything I needed, with a wink and his thumb and forefinger at his mouth like a joint.


It was a good mattress. I'm pretty sure it was stolen.

7/8/2012 2:48:09 PM

there's a good part of Norfolk?

7/8/2012 2:52:05 PM