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It's illegal to sell a used mattress in most places, so we don't really know if people care. I personally wouldn't have a problem with a used mattress.
by smabie 7y ago
It's illegal to sell a used mattress in most places, so we don't really know if people care. I personally wouldn't have a problem with a used mattress.
- zwayhowder 7y agoThe Salvation Army have a good trade on used mattresses in Australia. They get them from individual donations and many of the hotels, put them through a rigorous cleaning process (that they have posters about in their stores) and sell them at a quite reasonable price. For a person who normally can only afford a foam mattress one of the salvo's second hand inner spring mattresses is a 10 year investment that they will cherish.
- WalterBright 7y agoI would - bedbugs.
- fortran77 7y agoWhere I live they have to be "baked" at a certain temperature for a certain time, and there are rules about visible stains, etc. See https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Mattresses/ https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Mattresses/ Sometimes they're re-covered.
- stordoff 7y agoWhich jurisdictions are these? Googling "used mattress illegal" returns this post as the seventh result, and most of the other results (such as https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0099-shopping-used-mattresses https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0099-shopping-used-mat...) seem to indicate there are only restrictions on labelling or processing.
- smabie 7y ago“For example, in many places, old mattresses that have been recovered with new ticking (strong, tightly woven cotton or linen fabric) can be sold as long as they are sanitized or disinfected in some way before sale. In other states, only certain parts of mattresses, such as the springs, can be reused.“