{"id":2095,"date":"2013-09-27T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/09\/27\/retail-view-bed-warranties-are-too-long\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T04:06:02","slug":"retail-view-bed-warranties-are-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/retail-view-bed-warranties-are-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail view: Bed warranties are too long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Perry &#8212; Furniture Today<br \/>\nHIGH POINT\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; A majority of furniture and bedding specialty stores surveyed by Furniture|Today think that current bedding<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n manufacturer warranties are too long. Bedding specialty retailers have slightly stronger feelings on the topic than do their furniture store counterparts, the survey found.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-two percent of the furniture stores responding to an exclusive retail bedding survey said they think the bedding warranties are too long, while 48% classified them as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153about right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Within the ranks of specialty bedding stores, 56% of respondents said the current manufacturer warranties are too long, with 44% describing them as about right.<\/p>\n<p>Survey respondents offered a variety of reasons for shortening warranties. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Compared to electronics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote one retailer, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we are way too long.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Added another: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Warranties give unrealistic expectations of how long a sleep set will last.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Said a third retailer: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ten years (the standard bedding warranty length) is ridiculous.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>*For the complete story, see the Sept. 4 print issue of Furniture|Today.\u00c2\u00a0 For an exclusive electronic copy of the report, go to: http:\/\/furnituretodaystore.stores.yahoo.net\/furtodbedretsur.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Perry &#8212; Furniture Today HIGH POINT\u00c2\u00a0&#8212; A majority of furniture and bedding specialty stores surveyed by Furniture|Today think that current bedding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}