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The only place to get a new mattress these days and not get ripped off is Costco

• Animats 3y ago
  They're still 5x more expensive than Alibaba. Which is where most mail order mattresses come from. Making a mattress costs under $100.
  • gamblor956 3y ago
    Alibaba is super cheap because you're buying the literal bargain basement version of the product, and what you're getting almost always violates local product safety laws that domestic manufacturers and/or sellers must contend with. Yes, the mattress at Costco is 5x the price. But it's probably 20x the value.
    • somehnguy 3y ago
      My experience is the opposite - I've bought the exact same products from Alibaba that I could have gotten on Amazon for 4x the cost. The only difference being random brand printed on the plastic.
      • bombcar 3y ago
        It depends on the product. All those random USB C docks and hubs? Sure, you can find identical ones on baba. But there are products that aren’t really available. I’m sure you can get stuff identical to Harbor Freight, but actually identical to Milwaukee or Dewalt? A bit harder.
      • gamblor956 3y ago
        The stuff on Amazon is the stuff from Alibaba. The stuff in Target, Walmart, etc., is not. (And specifically, I mean the stuff physically sold in retail stores.) That is because retail stores are held to product liability laws in a different way than Amazon is (was? depends on the outcome of several pending product liability lawsuits against Amazon).