The house was sprayed on the 15th and I put a bed bug cover on the mattress and box springs the next day. The exterminator told me that the bed bugs originated from the "new" box springs I got with my mattress. Apparently what's happening now a days with shady mattress companies is that they are taking old, used box springs, taking off the fabric, reupholestering them and selling the box springs as new. I got completely screwed. I'm in the middle of talking to a lawyer about this. To be honest all I really want is to have them remove the mattress and box springs (obviously for free), refund me ($400 for exterminator, $60 for clothes cleaning, $50 for contractor bags, $140 for mattress/box springs cover), and give me all my money back that I paid for the mattress. I'm sure I can sue them but to be honest I don't really want to deal with that.
Fortunately the bed bug bites on me aren't too bad. They didn't really start showing up until yesterday. They are kind of itchy so I'm probably going to have to stop by Walgreens and get some anti itch cream.
What's really screwed up is that I found out about this business through a Groupon that I bought sometime last year. I will be complaining to Groupon about this. The mattress company was pretty nice too and it was in a fairly affluent area of Scottsdale.
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Danielle FTV
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