Dear All, I'm new to this forum. Wished i saw this thread earlier but nonetheless, hope to share my experience: Bought a Simmons Beauty Rest Riverdale from A&S today from the Fair at EXPO (4-12 Jun'11). Actually, we've been to earlier fairs (without knowing that the company promoting Simmons was A&S) but only decided to purchase the mattress now. We chose the mattress on our own accord and the salesman (Han) was thorough & patient in his explanation, allowing us to take our time to try out the mattresses. He mentioned that Riverdale is a house mattress (meaning given to dealers purely for exhibitions) and said that it's close to 2 of the genetric mattresses (listed in simmons official website). He mentioned that if we were to visit the official Simmons store, we would realize that their prices are more expensive or at most comparable to dealers. He said that Simmons is a brand whereby the prices of the mattress appreciate with time, meaning it's cheapest during lauching and only gets more expensive. Therefore, the earlier we buy, the more we save. However, if ever we find the price to be cheaper than what we bought it for before delivery, they will refund us the difference. In addition, he explicitly stated that this particular model which we are purchasing is entirely "Made in USA" and goes through strict QC by 3-4 companies in USA. He verified this by showing us the mattress tag (which i did not pay attention to). If i don't remember wrongly, their price list for Riverdale shows Retail Price as $5k+, Usual Price (according to Han, this is the normal price outside) as $4k+ and Promo Price (@ Expo) as $3k+ with 2 Deepsleep Pillow (Retail Price $99 each) and 1 Mattress Protector (Retail Price $200) thrown in. We managed to bring the price down to below $3k after negotiating with the manager (dunnoe his name but he's a thin & short middle age man) who took the liberty to push us to buy. He settled the final price as one in between our asking and his quote and hurried Han to proceed with invoicing. As me & my fiance really liked the matress & thought it was a good deal, we went ahead to pay a 50% deposit. Have yet to call up A&S at their shop to check out their quote for this similar model. Also, have yet to verify with Simmons if the house mattresses are really made in USA. Hopefully all turns out well and we din get overcharged :x Praysssssss
