This has been going on for a while now, but with so many problems, I haven't been able to buy a decent bed—at least I managed to replace the mattress after it left me nearly paralyzed from sleeping on it. Two years ago, I bought a bed in downtown Caracas at a good price, confident that I was making the best purchase of my life. Our old bed was worn out and the mattress was in terrible shape, so we decided to get rid of it after buying this new bed—but we had no idea what a huge mistake we were making.
To start with, the bed doesn't fit properly, and the fabric is so awful that the bed keeps sliding around on its own. This bed came with legs that we could never attach, and worst of all, when we opened it at home, it smelled HORRIBLE—a musty smell that just kept getting stronger. Like an idiot, I tried to be positive and cleaned the bed to get rid of the smell, though it just masked it a bit and eventually went away on its own. And don’t even get me started on the mattress—it literally felt like sleeping on the floor, super hard… but over time, a dent formed where I slept until the mattress finally started to deflate and come apart at the seams.
After a long time, I was finally able to replace the mattress and stop suffering because of it, but living in this country is very expensive, and I still haven't been able to buy a bed, so unfortunately I’m still stuck with that horrible bed, which, by the way, clearly looks like it’s made of cardboard and low-quality wood. I’ve noticed that a lot of videos have gone viral of people who also fell for that scam—they open up the mattresses and beds, and inside it’s just dirty cardboard—and I’m sure mine is the same. I haven’t opened it, but I can feel it…
This bed fills my room with dust; the fabric inside is completely covered in dust—it’s a horrible fabric that everything sticks to… Every time I clean it, a ton of dust flies around and I end up breathing it in—it’s sooooooo awful. Plus, it breaks easily. I cleaned it today, and it really annoyed me to realize that every time I clean my room, I suffer so much.
The lesson is: never buy something cheap just because it looks too good to be true; it’s always better to go for something that’s a little more expensive but of better quality, and always shop at reliable stores.