I got a great mattress from an outlet, queen size for about $400. I was blown away thinking that Casper was going to be cheaper. They just have good marketing I think

I got my favorite mattress ever from Amazon and it cost like $350 for a (firm) queen foam mattress, box spring, and frame.

Casper (or someone writing about them) once wrote a blog post about how they got into the mattress business because they saw unnecessarily huge margins and direct to consumer opportunity. Now they are opening physical stores and not even charging much differently from regular mattresses. I’m just going to keep buying cheap Chinese mattresses that don’t spend hundreds of dollars per purchase on advertising

A memory foam mattress for $400? That's a very good deal.

The only Casper product I have is a dog bed and it's great.

Not foam, it's some hybrid spring thing. There's so much crap out there it's hard to know what's real and what's BS

I got Costco's house brand memory foam mattress for that when it was on sale. Best mattress I've ever owned. (And I probably wouldn't have it if I hadn't tested out a memory foam mattress at a Casper store, in a bit of irony.)

Go to Costco, Living Spaces, or a myriad of other non-seedy stores and get a mattress for half the price.

and people also dont need to go to the artisanal grocery store for food, doesnt mean there isnt a market

The point is that the only reason Casper is “controversial” here is because IPOs have been elevated to a coveted version of success when it has nothing to do with anything aside from being unnecessarily rare.

Casper is just a vertically integrated mattress seller accessing the public markets now

I replied to

> Because the mattress sellers in the bad part of town still charge 3x more [than casper].

Which is not true. I understand there are premium choices, but this was not what I was replying to.