Okay, here is the dope on one dope at Sleepy's. My sweety wife and I go into the large store on Queens Blvd., just a few blocks from our apartment, and lie down on a few king size mattresses. My wife and I like to shop very fast, so we say okay let's purchase a S&F King size mattress. The price on the bed is something like $3,600 reduced to a Sleep's special $2,600. I hem-and-haw and tell my wife that the cost is too much so let's leave. Unlike the car salesman to whom I once stupidly surrendered my keys to my trade-in car and was kept hostage as a result, this salesman has no such hold over me. Predictably, the salesman says, "hold on now, let me see if we have one in the warehouse. If we do you, can have it for 1,500." He says the warehouse, mind you, and not a floor model or a damaged or a returned model, etc. Oddly or oddly not (you guess), this was the exact same line a different salesman said to us in the same store just 6 years ago. In other words, it is bull. So we so okay and he patronizes by saying "you have good taste." Then although Sleep's website prominently advertizes that the custormer can have the bed delivered at a convenient to them time, our salesman dismisses this concept completely. Okay, the delivery is supposed to occur on a Friday afternoon between 2 and 6 pm. At about 3 pm my wife calls Sleepy's to verify the delivery and they say that it was canceled. Of course they didn't call us and tell us this, which means I was out a half day's pay. I call the store on Saturday morning to find out about the delivery. The salesman that sold me the mattress tells my a cock-and-bull story about how the mattress I ordered was in NJ and that it was damaged and so it couldn't be delivered. Then he stupidity informs me that I was really lucky indeed because now I would get a brand new mattress delivered, one that was already in stock. He says, "You're really lucky to get a new mattress for that price." I am flabbergasted by such a remark and so I tell him that if the mattress from NJ was damaged I wouldn't have taken delivery, so why was I lucky? And answer there came none. Again, I cannot get the morning delivery that I desired and that they advertized. Some advise to the buyer of a mattress. Forget about finding out info from the internet. It seems the industry has it tied up with advertisements and not facts. Instead, go into the store with cash or a credit card and totally disregard the prices indicated on the items because they mean absolutely nothing at all. Every item in every store in this country is negotiable. If they can sell me a mattress that is originally marked for 3,600 for 1,500 hundred, just think about the markup at the supposedly reduced price of 2,600. Go into the store and low ball them, offering them 1/4 of the listed price. Let them squirm before you hand over any cash to them. Just imagine this dopey guy telling me how lucky I was to get a new mattress for 1,500. It probably cost no more than 500 bucks, made by slave labor somewhere in some ugly factory in the south. Once other thing, the salesman waved the delivery fee although it is advertized as being free.
I received a followup call, perhaps from this rant, perhaps not I don't know one way or another. I was told by a polite lady that I was to receive a stock mattress, which is a new mattress. Well, that is what I ordered, so what's the big deal? Was I supposed to do cartwheels for getting what I ordered? The salesman at Sleepy's apparently was selling me a floor piece, but he never once mentioned that to me. If he had, I wouldn't have bought it. In any case, the woman that called me listened to my complaints like a saint. She was very polite and rational, as opposed to the salesman who was either dopey or supposed I was a dope. Furthermore, she said the mattress would be delivered in the morning, as I originally requested.
I'll followup with this tale. The delivery is scheduled for Wed. morning. If it does not arrive by 12 noon I will cancel, something which I should have done already if it wasn't for fear of going through the same stupidity all over again. If all goes well I will indicate so on this site. If they throw in a couple of memory foam pillows I'll even remove this posting . Once last thing to mention. Last time a mattress was delivered by the same store I told them to take all the wrappings away from the building. Even after tipping them I found all the wrappings of the mattress in the apartment buildings hallway garbage area. This time I will accompany the delivery men to insure that they take the old mattress and the wrappings from the new one with them.
More insanity from Sleepy's. The delivery was scheduled for Wed. morning, but lo and behold at 4pm today, Monday, Sleepy's shows up with the mattress. They did not call me ahead of time and it was mere luck that I was home. Anyway, it goes to show that Sleepy's doesn't know its A ____ from its elbow. read more