This year as a Junior I have an off campus apartment and because of it I had to get all new furniture. But the top thing on my list that I needed to get was a new mattress.
My Mom and I went shopping for a new much needed mattress at Sleepy's. There was a flier for a discounted brand so my Mom thought it would be perfect to check it out. When we walked into the store, we were the only ones in there...and it seemed like the only ones who have EVER been there. We were approached by a very nice salesman who was eager to show us the great deals that he had in store.
He first started by taking me to a new machine that Sleepy's had developed in order to find the perfect mattress for the way you sleep and your body type. He stood by me as I laid on a bed hooked up with cords and gadgets asking me questions about the ways I slept. With this whole test I was confident that our salesman would find the perfect mattress in the price range that I want.
While we were walking around the showroom looking for mattresses, I fell in love with one that was $100 out of my price range. The one that happened to be in my price range was much too stiff for my liking, but there was nothing I could do, Mom was footing the bill so I had to go with what she wanted to pay. After it was decided that I would unfortunately get the mattress that I wasn't in love with but was willing to live with was picked out, we walked over to the desk of the salesman to work out the paperwork.
As we sat down to talk, the salesman looked at me saying that he personally felt bad that I wasn't getting the mattress that I felt good with. He immediately started typing on his computer and his calculator. About two minutes later he looked up and said, Ms. Stacy, I have an offer to make you. Would you be willing to spend $75 more and I would get the mattress that I truly wanted and he would throw in a mattress pad for free. My Mom JUMPED on the deal. She said OF COURSE we would take the deal, that way I would get the mattress that originally wanted, we would be paying less for it and we would be getting a free mattress pad.
A week after we had purchased the new mattress I saw an ad in the local newspaper for Sleepy's. They were advertising a new deal that for the next month [ including the time in which I had purchased my mattress ] that if you spend at least $150 on a new mattress, you would be given a free mattress pad. So the only real deal we got was a $25 discount on the more expensive mattress because of our loyalty to the company in buying 2 other mattresses from there in the past 5 years from there.
Even though we had thought we were getting the discount, we really weren't. Just the thought of getting the free items and the discount made us want to get it even though we could have spent only $75 on a mattress and left the store, we ended up spending more just to get a free item and a slightly better mattress.
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