In a mattress worth 10,000 yuan, there is an IQ tax of up to 9,000 yuan!
The moment the delivery worker delivered me the mattress, I knew I was being pitted. The worker admits that the IQ tax on the mattress is more than any other household product -
Today's mattresses like to do all kinds of "upgrades", but these upgrades may not lead to an increase in costs, but they will definitely make the price higher. If you don't want to pay an IQ tax, you have to learn to automatically block these upgrades.
.01 Transport Upgrade - Compression Mattress
This is the inconvenience of online shopping: mattresses are bulky and cumbersome to transport. As a result, some businesses have launched a "compressed mattress", or "roll-wrapped mattress", which compresses a huge mattress into a small roll
It seems to be an upgrade, but it actually brings two:
(1) Ordinary mattresses can't be rolled up, because there will be support springs on the edges of the mattress
All compression mattresses have eliminated this layer of support springs. What's more, the edge springs will be made soft, thin, or less - it looks good when rolled up, but it will cause the edges to collapse easily when used.
Especially when getting on and off the bed, there is no support on the edges, which will make people slide directly off the bed, and the comfort is very poor.
(2) The packaging of compressed mattresses is vacuum▽
In other words, the merchant can compress it and send it, but the user can't compress it and send it back. This means that we have no chance of regrets, and we can only stay after the mattress is laid, whether it is suitable or not.
.02 Comfort Upgrade - Latex Mattress
I don't know when "latex" has become synonymous with high-end mattresses and comfortable mattresses. It seems that with a layer of latex, this mattress becomes taller. But in fact?
First of all, latex is not comfortable -
The picture above is my latex mattress, which is now in its third year. The most painful season is summer, when latex pads can trap people in their entirety and make people feel hot and dry.
Someone is going to say: No, don't they all say that latex is breathable?
I don't know how this conclusion came about, but I don't feel the slightest bit of breathability anyway. And from another point of view, if it's really breathable, why make so many little holes in the surface?
In addition, latex has a short lifespan. Generally, after five years, there will be cracking, yellowing, hardening and other problems, and slag will be dropped! People with poor physique will encounter these aging latex will cause skin and respiratory problems.
A mattress is worth thousands, because latex can only last for five years, don't you think it's a loss?
Latex that sheds slag
.03 Elastic upgrade - whole network spring
Previously, there were only two types of springs: mesh springs and independent springs.
Among them, the mesh spring cannot be used because it will affect each other. Turning over on one side, the other side starts to jump. Jump straight into bed and the whole mattress will tremble for a few minutes.
Mesh springs
Later, the whole net spring appeared, and everyone thought that the new product must be more advanced. But after buying it home, I found out that it was just an upgrade of the mesh spring:
The mesh spring is relatively thin, and the whole mesh spring is thicker and heavier. The problems encountered by the mesh spring have been improved in the whole mesh spring, but it still cannot be 100% without impact.
Whole mesh springs
Therefore, if you need to sleep on a mattress for two people, it is recommended to choose an independent spring:
Each of the individual springs is packed into a non-woven bag, which has no effect on the other.
Independent springs
PS: Obuchi still has to say a word for the whole net spring, although it has the problem of "mutual influence", but the comfort is higher than that of the independent spring. So if both members of the family weigh less, or only one person sleeps on the mattress, it is still worth considering.
.04 Health Upgrade - Partition Mattress
This is the biggest lie in mattress sales in recent years▽
Merchants will take out this picture to tell you that the weight of the human body is different in different positions. The mattress is zoned to provide different loads in different positions, making it healthier to use.
But in fact?
With a little brain, you can figure out how unreliable this thing is: I'm 160 tall, my husband is 190, and we're both lying flat on the bed, and it's absolutely impossible for our butts and legs to fall on the same level.
However, the partition of the mattress is fixed.
So stop believing in the so-called "partitioned mattresses", it's just a gimmick. On the premise of no markup, there can be partitions. But because of dozens of partitions, the mattress was sold to tens of thousands of yuan, which is definitely an IQ tax.
.05 Usage upgrade - reversible mattress
When I bought a mattress, I heard this sentence: "Our mattress can be slept on both sides, if you want to be softer, you can sleep on the front, and if you want to be harder, you can sleep on the back." At first glance it sounds reasonable, but when you think about it, it's wrong!
When a mattress is used for two, it is bound to face two problems:
(1) We can only get used to one hardness, don't care about the hardness and softness, we will not sleep well if we change the face after getting used to it. Therefore, the double-sided mattress is meaningless at all, and it is also used as a single-sided mattress after buying it home.
(2) The price of this kind of mattress will inevitably be higher than the cost of one side, which is equivalent to spending more money to buy half a mattress that is not used to go home.
No matter which way you look at it, this mattress is an IQ tax. It's better to buy a mattress that is more suitable for your hardness and hardness to go home, and concentrate the cost and design of the mattress on one side.
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