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All the popular mattress sellers (including this new Afloat, apparently) have a very flexible refund policy. You don't need to lift a finger (except figurativel

All the popular mattress sellers (including this new Afloat, apparently) have a very flexible refund policy. You don't need to lift a finger (except figuratively) to receive or return it.

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asdf333 8y ago
unfortunately its hard to be like "ok i hate this mattress so much I will sleep on the floor until I find something I like better. take it back!"
- atombender 8y ago
  Simple: Keep your old mattress until you're sure that you want to keep your new one. Or, buy a new mattress before returning the one you didn't like. This way you only need to store a superfluous mattress for a short period of time. I feel like these are solveable problems.
  - ianlevesque 8y ago
    I have a not-small apartment and there still isn’t room for an entire extra mattress.
    - gibolt 8y ago
      Keep it under the new one
- EliRivers 8y ago
  I skate through on laziness. I offloaded my last mattress a couple of years ago, mostly intending to thence get a new one, but never quite got round to it. If we all just embrace our inner slackers, we can put an end to the problems of mattress disposal!
witten 8y ago
You don't need to lift a finger, but you do need to recognize that any "returned" mattress is likely going straight to a landfill.
- atombender 8y ago
  I'd love to know if this is actually true. Can't these companies clean the mattresses and resell them, or at least donate them? Is destruction the only safe way?
  - witten 8y ago
    A little more about the return process: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/your-money/buying-a-mattress-online-was-easy-now-about-the-return.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/your-money/buying-a-mattr... And some anecdata: When I wanted to return an online mattress, I had the option of showing a receipt for giving it to a charity, or having the mattress company pick it up. None of the local charities I looked into took even slightly used mattresses. So the mattress company "pick up" was from a junk disposal company, and they just took the mattress to the waste transfer station on its way to the landfill.
- RLN 8y ago
  My girlfriend used to work for a reasonably well known mattress company. Apparently returned mattresses there were given to charity for use in homeless shelters and such.
- rrock 8y ago
  Sometimes, used mattresses can be handy. Such as when you accidentally punch a hole in the bottom of a river, and need a way to plug it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood
  - feross 8y ago
    Wow, thanks for linking that. Super fascinating. I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-qD6h6wlU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-qD6h6wlU0 to learn more about the Chicago flood. Hard to believe!

All the popular mattress sellers (including this new Afloat, apparently) have a very flexible refund policy. You don't need to lift a finger (except figuratively) to receive or return it.

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asdf333 8y ago

unfortunately its hard to be like "ok i hate this mattress so much I will sleep on the floor until I find something I like better. take it back!"

atombender 8y ago
Simple: Keep your old mattress until you're sure that you want to keep your new one. Or, buy a new mattress before returning the one you didn't like. This way you only need to store a superfluous mattress for a short period of time. I feel like these are solveable problems.
- ianlevesque 8y ago
  I have a not-small apartment and there still isn’t room for an entire extra mattress.
  - gibolt 8y ago
    Keep it under the new one
EliRivers 8y ago
I skate through on laziness. I offloaded my last mattress a couple of years ago, mostly intending to thence get a new one, but never quite got round to it. If we all just embrace our inner slackers, we can put an end to the problems of mattress disposal!

witten 8y ago

You don't need to lift a finger, but you do need to recognize that any "returned" mattress is likely going straight to a landfill.

atombender 8y ago
I'd love to know if this is actually true. Can't these companies clean the mattresses and resell them, or at least donate them? Is destruction the only safe way?
- witten 8y ago
  A little more about the return process: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/your-money/buying-a-mattress-online-was-easy-now-about-the-return.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/your-money/buying-a-mattr... And some anecdata: When I wanted to return an online mattress, I had the option of showing a receipt for giving it to a charity, or having the mattress company pick it up. None of the local charities I looked into took even slightly used mattresses. So the mattress company "pick up" was from a junk disposal company, and they just took the mattress to the waste transfer station on its way to the landfill.
RLN 8y ago
My girlfriend used to work for a reasonably well known mattress company. Apparently returned mattresses there were given to charity for use in homeless shelters and such.
rrock 8y ago
Sometimes, used mattresses can be handy. Such as when you accidentally punch a hole in the bottom of a river, and need a way to plug it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_flood
- feross 8y ago
  Wow, thanks for linking that. Super fascinating. I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-qD6h6wlU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-qD6h6wlU0 to learn more about the Chicago flood. Hard to believe!