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Re:The Warby Parker clones are imploding by Spooky23 on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:08PM (#22530929)
Mattresses are an awful business but even worse cliche.

My old school mattress was like $700 and is fine. I’m a huge fan of IKEA, and have bought everything from furniture to a kitchen from them. But their mattresses are garbage.

Re:The Warby Parker clones are imploding by frosted-flakes on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:14PM (#22531778)
They're fine if you only need it for a year. I found their $200 Morgedal mattress very comfortable and I slept very well on it, but about two years after buying it started to get super saggy and worn.

Cheap foam is why (what can you expect for $200?!). My parents got a 100% foam queen-size mattress more than 30 years ago, and it's still in very good shape with full-time use. They flip and rotate it every month or so, which probably helps a lot (most mattresses today aren't supposed to be flipped). I think it cost about $1000 in 1989 (about $1800 today).

Re:The Warby Parker clones are imploding by vl on Monday March 09, 2020 @10:01PM (#22532067)
IKEA has cheap mattresses and expensive mattresses, their expensive mattresses are quite good, but, you know, expensive.
Re:The Warby Parker clones are imploding by ascagnel_ on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @09:01AM (#22535019)
In general, I find IKEA stuff to either cheap or expensive, and you generally get what you pay for. I have a loveseat, armchair, and coffee table from them -- the loveseat has lasted for about a decade and (aside from a few cat claw marks) is as good as new) despite costing in the realm of $1000USD, the armchair was cheap and the bolts on it need frequent tightening, and the coffee table is $30USD of paper yet inexplicably has also lasted almost a decade.
Re:The Warby Parker clones are imploding by asdff on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:09AM (#22533183)
A lot of furniture from IKEA is just way too damn stiff/upright to possibly be comfortable unless you are a contortionist. I don't buy anything there without sitting on it first.