Unintended Perk of the Online Mattress Boom: Never-Ending Free Trials
Found on Slashdot on Tuesday, 31 December 2019
"You could literally do this and never pay for a mattress," he realized. Online mattress sales are booming in the U.S.
To entice shoppers who would otherwise prefer to test the firmness of the mattress in the showroom, many of these online upstarts offer free home trials that can run for as long as a year. The customer typically pays for the mattress up front and gets a full refund if the mattress is returned before the cutoff.
This is the same year where everybody talks about protecting the environment, reducing waste and emissions. Then you have leeches like those people who just abuse the system to save money and create piles of trash, torpedoing he efforts of all others.