Have You Seen The Prices of New Beds?

[Bailey Guns]

Wife and I have been looking for a new bed. We're sleeping on a 15+ year old Sleep Number bed. It's a king and there's a huge gap in the middle where the two air mattresses meet and it's just annoying as can be.

Yesterday we stopped by Walmart and there's a Mattress Firm store next door. Went inside and the sticker shock was worse than looking at new cars! I had no idea you could pay $5500 for JUST a mattress. An entire bed (frame, foundation, mattress) can easily cost $11000 or more. Of course there are less expensive beds...but who's buying $11000 beds? And there wasn't just one model at that price...there were lots of them.

The lady in the store said, "Don't let the price bother you. We have no interest financing for 60 months on most of our beds." What? You now have to finance a bed for 5 years? I must be way outta touch.

I'd say the average "Good" quality mattress was somewhere in the $1500 - $2500 range for a king.

Unbelievable.

[Sawin]

Don’t shop there. We bought our last mattress from Costco. It was under $1K and is great.

[Shooter45]

We've had a King mattress from Costco for the past 4 years and it's been excellent. I believe it was just under $1k and well worth the price.

[Bailey Guns]

I can't afford to buy anything there. But they have lots of beds to test drive.

[BushMasterBoy]

I can't afford to buy anything there. But they have lots of beds to test drive.

lol

[cj]

Bought my last mattress from Amazon (one of the Zinus ones), and the one before that from Our (which lasted about 10 years). Think we spent less than $600 combined for them. Left a lot for a pretty cool frame...

[Gman]

Sounds like someone is missing IKEA.

[beast556]

We have been looking for a full for our guest bedroom and like you said prices are insane. Even the cheapies are 300$. Unfortunately costco only sells queens and king.

[FoxtArt]

I'm too much of a cheap bastard for a new mattress. If the house ever burns down, I'm going to have to start googling for "hail damaged mattresses".

Many scam industries out there though. Weddings, Funerals, Real Estate and Mattresses. If it wasn't for the 70-95% profit margins, people would actually have to be gainfully employed.

*waits for the thrown tomatos*

[Skywalker]

Ditto, I have two in my home from COSTCO... great mattress!

Don’t shop there. We bought our last mattress from Costco. It was under $1K and is great.