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Aug 22, 2008 12:25

There's this furniture store commercial that plays around here advertising the Vera Wang mattress. Furniture man says "What happens when a top designer sees the need for a supreme mattress? She designs one ( Read more... )

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seadiver August 22 2008, 19:39:44 UTC
What is crazy is just how much of the shit we buy has nothing to do with the name pasted on it. It's simply a manner in which to increase distribution without spending on setting up new infrastructure. The dude that already has the mattress/stereo/food product factory gets a cut he wasn't getting before. Makes sense, I can't deny.

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seadiver August 22 2008, 19:41:50 UTC
Hit post too soon! An Alexander McQueen would come with a matching chandelier and bed chains!

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jamespolk August 23 2008, 03:37:34 UTC
If Vera Wang wants me to buy a mattress it better be extremely firm and closer to the door of the mattress store than any of the other extremely firm mattresses.

That's how we bought the last one. However, since I refuse to haggle on price, I'm sure I ended up paying as much as if it were a Vera Wang bought by a haggler.

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