Date: 31 October 1983 1029-EST
From: David Dill at CMU-CS-A
Subject: Re: Englander mattresses?
To: Bob.Walker@CMU-EE-FARADAY
Resent-To: bovik@a
Resent-From: Bob.Walker@CMU-EE-FARADAY
Resent-Date: Monday, 31 October 1983 12:55:33 EST

Bob,
	I was looking for a mattress in September, and found out some 
interesting things.  First, a very good heuristic for judging mattress
quality is how long the warrantee lasts.  A standard Sealy Posturepedic
has a 15 year warrantee -- I think other good brands are similar.  It
turns out that downtown department stores get specially-made brand
name mattresses that are inferior to the standard ones, in order to
have really impressive-looking sale prices.  These come with a 1-year
warrantee.

	In response to your specific request, I don't know anything about
Englander mattresses.  I finally bought the one I have now from a place
called "American Buyer's Guild" that I found in the yellow pages.  The
price was about 2/3 of the lowest discount price I heard from anyplace
else, and less than 1/2 of the list price.  They were very nice, and
delivered it to my third-floor apartment the next day.  You might call
them if there turns out to be something wrong with the one you are looking
at.

	-David Dill

(please forward this to Bovik)