The Stupid Tax on a Mattress

My wife and I got each other a king size mattress for Christmas this year. Hey, that’s what she wanted. We had the bed for a couple of weeks and weren’t able to get comfortable with the thing. Long story short, we didn’t like it, and had the mattress store come and pick it up today. They were a bit grumpy about it. The problem was that we used a small local store (they were offering a great price) and the store didn’t have a return policy. So when I called the owner, he offered to come fix it or exchange it, but didn’t offer full refund. We ended up settling for 80% of the original price.

So, just a reminder that you should always take time to examine a store’s return policy. For sure on big purchase items like a mattress. Not that our end deal wasn’t fair. 80% was pretty good for a straight return. It just would have been nice to know the policy, or lack there of, prior to purchase. We chalk this one up as stupid tax and will just move on.

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