Hi brc722,
Sorry I missed your question.
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I do have an indirect mattress question in regards to metal bed frames, are they also “overpriced” at typical box store retailers? They tend to use them to negotiate mattress costs and sometimes throw them in for free, so their true cost/value is obscured to me. How much does a standard new metal bedframe cost these days? No idea. Is $200, $100 too much?
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There are some steel bedframe guidelines in post #10 here and I think a reasonable cost guideline would be somewhere in the range of $50 to $100 or perhaps a little higher for the strongest bedframes (queen size). They are much more easily comparable by specific brand and model with google searching than mattresses so most stores would be in a competitive range.
Phoenix