US Medical Supplies Blog

For what it’s worth, I’d like to point out that shopping for an adjustable bed online can be a huge nightmare. Before I go on, I should clarify: this website (www.usmedicalsupplies.com) is an online retailer of adjustable beds, among many other products. We take the same approach to selling adjustable beds as we do with our other products. That is, we offer our products at competitive prices and we list those prices on the website, right next to the product. Our visitors are encouraged to call for more information, but they can see the prices on the site before they ever decide to pick up the phone.

We recently conducted some research into the adjustable bed market and found that many of our competitors run their respective enterprises in the same manner as your local used-car salesman. Without pointing fingers or naming names, I’ll say that some of the biggest sellers of adjustable beds are guilty of shady telemarketing sales tactics that frustrate the consumer and give the entire industry a bad reputation.

You’ll notice this trend on any site you visit that sells adjustable beds without quoting a price on the website. If you call to inquire about how much a particular bed costs, the salesperson will want to dance around the issue and ask you a list of questions first. Then, you’ll finally be quoted a price, but not the best price. You won’t get the best price on your first call. We know this because our researcher actually went through this process several times. He said no to the first price he was quoted, only to have the salesperson call back a few days later with a better price. Weeks later, the same salespeople were still calling to offer an even-better price. Who knows when they’ll actually offer the lowest possible price for their product? I’m going to tell you something you probably already know: those companies don’t want to tell you the absolute lowest price for an adjustable bed because they’d rather charge more for it.

Retailers that engage in those kinds of tactics are outdated and completely out-of-touch with modern consumers. There’s a reason those kinds of business practices have largely fallen by the wayside. In today’s marketplace, we as consumers expect to see a uniform price that applies to everyone. From there, we can check out the competition and decide whether the price is appropriate without having to haggle with salesmen for weeks. This comparison-shopping process, an accepted standard, becomes unnecessarily complicated when nobody will give a straight answer on price. My advice to you is to avoid retailers that run that scheme altogether.