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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

It's because they're big money items

Cloth, springs and foam are cheap as all hell while a mattress sells for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars

Even selling one is a big profit and in cities, where people move more frequently, mattresses get fucked up easier and thus, sell even more

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Makes more sense than some of the theories I saw about them being fronts for human trafficking.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Everything is a front for human trafficking if you really think about it

You could be human trafficking right now and not even know it

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

which would make them a perfect front for money laundering

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

They're kind of heavy for that.

I guess you could sell mattress deliveries with high cancellation fees, though.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Mentioned it in my last comment but they are literally the exact opposite of what you want for money laundering.

You want to be doing hundreds of small cash transactions a day with the possibility of cash tips, not have a store where your entire inventory is on a spreadsheet and you sell two of them a month through well documented credit card transactions for prices you advertised in a full page newspaper add that went to everybody in the city.

You can't just "misplace" an $1800 item very often without getting flagged.

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but that's also nearly any kind of business that deals with cash in any capacity

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