How to Buy a Floor Sample Bed Mattress
Many mattress storefronts, outlet stores and discount web sites will sell floor samples of mattresses at a discount. For many people, this is preferable for two reasons: First and foremost is the price, which is assuredly cheaper. A perhaps lesser known feature of floor samples which makes them attractive to some buyers is that more attention is given at the factory to the tailoring of a floor sample since it must hold up to the wear and tear of many shoppers testing it. Does this Spark an idea?
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Ways to Find a Floor Sample Mattress for Sale
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Consult your Yellow Pages either online or in the phone book to call local mattress stores and see if they are willing to sell you a floor model at a discount.
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Ask when the store will be moving or adding new inventory, because this is an ideal time for many mattress stores to be open to the idea of selling a floor sample.
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Offer to pick up the mattress yourself, because a store manager might be more willing to dispose of a floor model at a discount when he does not need to make transportation arrangements.
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In your Internet search engine use Google or Yahoo to look for Internet sites that sell floor samples. To do this, type in the words "floor mattress" and "mattress."
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Conduct a proper price comparison before ordering online.
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Tips & Warnings
The main way to tell if you are in fact getting a floor sample is to look for a paper label stuck to the outside of the wrapping that reads "floor sample." In the absence of this label, new mattresses are machine wrapped and heat sealed, while floor mattresses have packaging that has clearly been opened and re-bagged with tape to close it.
If you do not want to purchase a floor model, be sure to look for the signs that your "new" mattress is in fact not as new as you would like. Signs include discoloration on the foot area or the top of the mattress. Double sided labeling is usually another sure sign of a floor model, as is the absence of law labels or specification tags.
