The Mattress Industry is One Big Rip-Off | Adam Ruins Everything

[Music] name's Kathy more Chiyo Lee see your mother very busy always even as we speak I'm sending an email loopback action steps energy sent now he may be busy but I hate getting ripped off so I'm getting scammed I want to know oh wow you were the first person to ever openly accept my presence and I'm gonna do squats while you talk okay well ever notice how stores like these intentionally make mattress shopping as confusing as possible this bottle has incest news coils heat sensitive memory foam and pillow top underwire and I'll let you take it home today for just $39.99 a month with no interest and no money down we leave the down to the comforter guys and that's not a blanket statement huh but it's all a big bed of Lies designed to rip you off hey that's illegal yeah it is to protect us from you see big mattress has been stuffed with shifty scam artists since the beginning back in the 1800s manufacturers would stuff mattresses with literally anything so the government forced them to label what was inside but then those devious mattress stores would just remove the tag so in 1958 the government made that practice illegal so that's what those tags are for nowadays you can rest assured that your mattress is garbage free but the mattress industry is still full of it come on down to the mattress store they've got so many scams your head will explode scale number one manufacturers will take the exact same mattress and sell it under different names in different stores so it's impossible for you to compare prices at Macy's it's called a Simmons Beautyrest recharge Ally at Sears it's called a beauty rest recharge debit with luxury at u.s. mattress com it's called a Beautyrest recharge lyric luxury and everywhere it's the exact same mattress if I can't compare prices how am I supposed to haggle oh good stressing me out give me that one scam number two manufacturers makeup special mattress features to jack up the price even when they do nothing to help you sleep this mattress has fluff stuff inner Springs outer Springs and flexo-coil hmm look at the sparkle what is flex it will do it adds $300 in the price scam number three retailers profit off of your confusion by regularly marking up prices 50% or more and here's the dirtiest little secret hiding under the mattress this industry spends a lot of time making its products seem different but the truth is the majority of mattresses are produced owned and sold by the same companies more than 60% of mattresses sold in America are made by the same two manufacturers with materials from the same suppliers then they're often sold in mattress stores owned by the same company oh my choice didn't seem that embarrassing wait I can order a mattress from one of those internet companies I heard about it on my favorite podcast welcome back to part 64 of our investigation into a crime that's none of our business but first let's talk about Casper I needed to buy a new mattress but I was too busy playing amateur detective with real people's lives with Casper I just clicked they shipped and it showed up straight to my door in a neat little package could Casper be disrupting the mattress industry oh definitely not those online companies are just as sneaky as the stores too late I already ordered one like my ex on our first date [Music] actually online mattresses aren't always cheaper you can find plenty of memory foam mattresses in the store for the same price and they're often made by the very same subcontractors the brick-and-mortar guys use and since you're shopping online you can't try before you buy so once again comparison shopping is basically impossible yeah nice try mr. smarty pajama pants I checked a bunch of review sites first oh that's no guarantee at all online review sites are infested with conflicts of interest and mattress reviews are some of the worst most mattress reviewers get kickbacks from sales generated from their sites incentivizing positive reviews this mattress gives me all the fields 10 out of 10 weeks whoo someone purchased via my link babe you're so cute when you're working for me you are in bed together oh that was very good Kathy but it's true Casper has even bought out an entire review sites you know what let's make this official putting all that together if you do a Google search for mattress reviews you might just be seeing advertisements from the companies themselves [Music] so what I have to do I go to get a new mattress honestly there aren't really any better options no matter what you do shopping for a mattress is just a big old nightmare [Music]

Channel: CollegeHumor

Views: 4,960,709

Rating: 4.7865896 out of 5

Keywords: Collegehumor, CH originals, comedy, sketch comedy, internet, humor, funny, sketch, adam ruins everything, adam ruins mattress, adam ruins mattresses, adam conover mattress, adam ruins, mattresses are scams, mattress ripoff, adam ruins everything mattress industry, adam ruins everything mattresses

Id: rvlA9UxGvSg

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 05 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/ginfish]

Can confirm, didnt understand wtf I was doing when I was shopping for a mattress... I just tried a bunch, picked the most comfortable, told the guy the price was ridiculous, got a better price, bought it.

Turns out the bed is fucking awesome and I'd live my entire life in it if I could. Travel on my bed. ^{Work on my bed. Walk on my bed. Gym on my bed. Play Diablo Immortal on my bed.}

[u/Valderan_CA]

can't try before you buy.... most of the online Memory foam companies let you return the mattress up to 120 days after it arrives

I had a buddy who had to temporarily move halfway across the country for 9 months to do training, instead of buying himself a new mattress he bought a Casper, Novosbed & Endy mattresses and returned them all before the trial periods were up.

Ended up deciding to pick up a Novosbed when he got back home because he actually liked the bed during the trial (just didn't want to have to ship it home when his training was done)

[u/53845]

Having worked with Lull, Casper, and Select Comfort, I can confirm, it's all the same shite.

The video is a little over the top, but only in regards to emotion. Most things are easier logistically if made by the same companies. It is funny comparing prices on Lull, Tuft, and Casper. Their components are all the exact same.

[u/PowFlash]

cool, i'll just sleep on the ground then

[u/The_Prince1513]

I just bought a King Sized mattress on Amazon for like $380 including shipping.

It's a super comfortable memory foam, but its made by a Chinese company so it'll prob give me cancer or something

[u/HarryOhla]

this is why i sleep in a gutter.

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this and heroin

[u/LovableContrarian]

The practice of renaming identical products for different retailers is becoming a fucking plague, and it should be illegal.

They do the same shit with TVs too. Find a TV at walmart, search the model number, and find it's only at walmart. But the same fucking TV is at best buy and amazon, too. They'll just slightly change like the design on the back of the TV and change the model. It's bullshit.

[u/lolpwny]

The astroturfing is spot on. I tried using Reddit for guidance when buying my latest mattress. But even on here you can sort of just tell when someone gives an over the top glowing review of a mattress and it’s clearly a post “sponsored” by a manufacturer.

Online reviews are such a BS game.

[u/Gaben2012]

how can one industry be so sketchy thats insane.