There was a pretty popular recent post on reddit's /r/unethicallifeprotips about this recently.
It's beginning to become common knowledge that paying for a mail-order mattress is often optional. By choosing not to request a refund (and keep the product), you are subsidizing the purchases of everyone else who does.
If you squint this kind of looks like the CyberRebate business model and I wonder how much longer it'll be sustainable.
During the dot com bubble of 2000-2001, there was a company where you could buy things online for 10x the normal retail price, but they'd send you a rebate of the price after a couple of months. (And you would keep whatever you'd bought)
Much like every other time someone claimed to make all their profit off of the "float", it turned out to be a big scam
It's beginning to become common knowledge that paying for a mail-order mattress is often optional. By choosing not to request a refund (and keep the product), you are subsidizing the purchases of everyone else who does.
If you squint this kind of looks like the CyberRebate business model and I wonder how much longer it'll be sustainable.
(The industry also has amusing quirks like https://www.vox.com/2017/9/23/13153814/casper-sleepopolis-la... )